Alan Ward

Cain Park has always been more than Cleveland Heights' Summer Arts Park. For decades, its sled hill has been a source of winter fun for Cleveland Heights' families.

D.C.'s ambitious Women's Voices Theater Festival this fall involves more than 50 regional theaters premiering what's billed as the largest number of original works by female writers in history. It has begun, humbly, in the modest Callan Theatre at Catholic University, where patrons have to led through a couple of doors and up some stairs to their seats.