Saving Mr. Banks—the real-life story about the struggle between Walt Disney and Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers to adapt the book to the big screen—reveals the creative and personal bitterness that lies behind even the most commercial confections.

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…

People have been asking us: What’s that big film crew doing downtown today? Why must my commute be ruined by greedy Hollywood movie producers? The answer: Why it’s National Treasure: Book of Secrets, the sequel to the polarizing Nicholas Cage swashbuckler, of course. Here’s the details on the filming for today, though circuses of production vehicles will likely be popping up elsewhere around the city for a while longer. The D.C. Department of Transportation (DDOT),…