Krista Lang Blackwood

Vi Nhan Tran was smuggled out of Vietnam and captured by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia before finding refuge in a Red Cross camp in Thailand. It’s a story of a lifetime — and all before he was three years old. Tran’s only memory from that part of his life is busting his head open…

Mezzo-soprano Samantha Gossard’s first big role came during second grade in a musical called Steamboatin’. “I was ‘Mississippi Meg’ and I had a big monologue and a big solo, all requiring a thick southern accent — definitely a comedic role. I remember everyone laughing so much and thinking I was ‘adorable,’  and I remember my…

In 1623, a couple of guys got together and self-published some work by a dead friend of theirs named William Shakespeare.   Four hundred years later, this piece of “vanity publishing” is considered to be the crown jewel of our Western canon.   Shakespeare’s First Folio, as it is now known, is one of the…