'Snow Child' Conveys Alaska's Wild Magic In Musical Form

There's a well-known Russian folktale, "Snegurochka," that tells the story of an elderly couple who yearn to have a child; they create a little girl out of snow, and she comes to life. In her novel The Snow Child, (WWU Journalism alumna and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Eowyn Ivey reimagined that story and set it in her home state of Alaska — and now the story has made one more leap, to the theatre at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage.