Tall bales of straw (or so it looks) loom as backdrop to “Rumpelstiltskin,” the artful, stylized fairy tale dramatization now at Imagination Stage. The agrarian image is a good emblem for this ...

The Smithsonian Institution senior cultural history curator is a published poet who holds a 1989 patent for design of a "modular ... just that in his new book, "Rumpelstiltskin's Secret: What ...