Your mission, should you choose to accept: With only one week, adapt a randomly-chosen Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale into a compelling stage production. Such was the challenge for the team over at Rorschach Theater, which will premiere its season-opening stunt on Saturday. Last Sunday, 40 D.C. artists, many of them company members, were charged with the responsibility of turning tales like “Hansel & Gretel” into something we’d like to see on stage. Norman Allen, Randy…

Whoever thinks tales such as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood can’t teach adults something never saw Into The Woods. In Steven Sondheim’s beloved fractured fairy tale, the underlying themes of these universal stories become even more apparent: Jack’s journey up the beanstalk becomes a metaphor for growing older. Rapunzel’s story is a cautionary tale for the sheltering of children from the evils of the world. And Into The Woods is unafraid to show us…

Halloween’s just about here and there’s a whole host of costume ideas you haven’t yet explored. Forget going as a snake on a plane, a sexy devil/nursemaid/Little Red Riding Hood, or some sort of tasteless Mark Foley political reference. What about going as Lola from Damn Yankees? Adelaide from Guys And Dolls? M. Butterfly him/herself? Ok, these ideas may be too obscure for your typical Saturday night costumed blowout. But if you’ve got a theatrical…