The 43-year-old conservatory is headed to Columbia Heights.

Seven months after former Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple smacked around Washington’s arts press corps for failing to report Studio Theatre founding Artistic Director Joy Zinoman’s announcement at a retreat for Studio employees in 2005 that she’d be stepping down this year, Zinoman’s successor has at last been identified: David Muse, currently associate artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre, was named the new boss by the theater today (you can download the announcement…