Potomac Valley Audubon Society and CraftWorks team up to offer the popular Wee Naturalists program at CraftWorks at Cool Spring.

Barbara Bergman’s studio is full of colorful Peruvian textiles and bags of wool, fond mementoes of the years her family spent in that country. They are also part of her current efforts to help Shipibo Indian women preserve their traditional handcrafts while earning a living. When her oldest son proposed a family vacation in Peru [...]

As rehearsals began in mid-June for the 2009 Contemporary American Theater Festival, each writer shared thoughts with Nelson Pressley about the work coming to Shepherdstown and the working lives that brought them here.

What’s the best way to categorize this year’s crop of playwrights at the Contemporary American Theater Festival? The five faces are largely new: one returning writer from 1996 and four rookies (including an esteemed 65 year old). Their themes are topical: one brutal dissection of marriage and four dramas that feel torn from the headlines. The demographics are, well, retro: one black woman and four white men.

A simple way to sort this year’s slate, which runs from July 8 through August 2, would be between the bluntly political works in the Frank Center—Beau Willimon’s campaign drama “Farragut North” and Steven Dietz’s 9/11 conspiracy thriller “Yankee Tavern”—and the romantically oriented duo in the Studio, Michael Weller’s marital slugfest “Fifty Words” and Eisa Davis’s era-hopping “The History of Light.” [...]

An Over The Mountain Preview
The 20th annual Over the Mountain Studio Tour won’t take place until November, but you don’t have to wait until then to see the art or the artists. The tour’s 25 artists and craft-workers preview new work at the War Memorial Building Men’s Club, German Street, Shepherdstown, Friday July 10 through [...]

For the ninth summer, Shepherdstown is transformed July 16–26 into a modern dance festival with dance concerts, discussions, master classes, events for children, and the West Virginia Dance Theater Institute. For two weeks, eight dance companies from New York, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., descend on Jefferson County, living with local families and enjoying the warm [...]