Artistic director Caren Hearne was all bubbles and shine as she introduced Studio 3 Theatre for Young Audiences’ production of Lizzie Allen’s Home to a Saturday afternoon crowd at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton.  Studio 3, she announced, is the only theater in this country producing the English playwright’s work.

Spelling is a mere convention which school systems use to bludgeon us into compliance. The spelling bee is a tribal rite, and unfair, at that, since American English is spelled differently than British English, which is spelled differently than Canadian or Australian English. Moreover, even within these subgroups there is dissensus; you may have noticed […]