Friday, October 20, 2017
Emilie Our Contemporary Emilie du Châtelet, scientist, mathematician, lover of Voltaire, genius, is a perfect example of the power of women in the 18th century and today. Many of the chall…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
All for Love Noted critic Harold Bloom once said, “We certainly can say that Cleopatra and Antony do not bore each other, and they are bored, erotically and otherwise, by everyone else in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PMMonday, October 16, 2017
Stevie Zimmerman has a reputation in DC as a “must-see” director. She received her bachelors from Oxford and her masters from the University of Leeds in England. She directed The Pitmen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:16PMWednesday, October 4, 2017
The pairing of a director and a playwright is a mysterious thing. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. But sometimes, as here, it is a perfect marriage. The Lover and The Collection b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25AMThe vignette “Secret” encapsulates the ingenuity of Forum Theatre’s production of Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information. Two office workers sit at their computers, back to back. One…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24AMSaturday, September 2, 2017
Diamond Julesy Gets It Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar has recently become a cause célèbre. When Caesar was portrayed in a Public Theater production with a Trump-like costume and wig, there …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45PMFriday, July 7, 2017
Dorothy Parker claimed, famously, that she was “just a little Jewish girl, trying to be cute.” In fact, she was a legendary wit; the first female drama critic in America; and a successfu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:07PMWith a breezy “Hi, y’all!” Clyde Ensslin welcomes us to the complicated story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, as told by none other than Big Bill Clinton himself. It’s a chanc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
David Ives brings the comedy of Molière, with this hilarious “translaptation”, into the 21st century to delight us all. With The School for Lies, The Shakespeare Theatre Company present…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10PMSaturday, June 3, 2017
David Ives’s The School for Lies (adapted from Le Misanthrope by Molière and directed by Michael Kahn) has arrived at the Shakespeare Theatre! This charming comedy is at the Lansburgh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:40PMThursday, June 1, 2017
King Lear has sometimes been called the Everest of classical acting. Every great Shakespearean actor must sooner or later face the physically and emotionally exhausting task of playing the p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMSunday, May 21, 2017
Just when Canada starts to sound like a good idea, comes Timon of Athens at the Folger Theatre, confirming once again that first-rate Shakespeare is a cure for almost anything. The show’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:50PMFriday, May 12, 2017
Much of the publicity for the much-anticipated Avant Bard production of King Lear has focused on Rick Foucheux’s Lear. I recently saw Foucheux play Gloucester in a production at George Was…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that seeing Edmund Kean play Shakespeare was like “reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.” Acclaimed Director Liesl Tommy brings us Shakespeare torn as…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:04PMSunday, April 9, 2017
Voltaire once said, “Doubt is not a comfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one.” Playwright John Patrick Shanley notes that “Certainty is a closed door.” His play Doubt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PMMonday, February 13, 2017
The Ghost in the Machine Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III premiered in 2014, at London’s Almeida Theatre. Both the original production and the Broadway production won numerous awards. Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30PMWednesday, December 28, 2016
“Merdre!” This elaboration on the French word “Merde!” caused a sensation in 1896, at the premiere of Ubu Roi (King Ubu) in Paris. Half the audience was revolted, half enthusiastic. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:19PMMonday, December 19, 2016
n Part 5 of a series of interviews with the cast of Folger Theatre’s The Second Shepherds’ Play, meet Louis E. Davis. Sophia: Please introduce yourself to our readers. Where have we see…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32PMSunday, December 18, 2016
In Part 4 of a series of interviews with the cast of Folger Theatre’s The Second Shepherds’ Play, meet Tonya Beckman. Sophia: Please introduce yourself to our readers. Where have our aud…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:30AMThursday, December 15, 2016
In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Folger Theatre’s The Second Shepherds’ Play, meet Matthew R. Wilson. Sophia: Please introduce yourself to our readers. Where have we …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:39PMIn Part 2 of a series of interviews with the cast of Folger Theatre’s The Second Shepherds’ Play, meet Megan Graves. Sophia: Please introduce yourself to our readers. Where have we s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:34PMMonday, December 12, 2016
In part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of Folger Theatre’s The Second Shepherds’ Play, meet Ryan Sellers. Sophia: Please introduce yourself to our readers. Where have…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:16PMSaturday, November 26, 2016
The Shakespeare Theatre’s production of The Secret Garden is like a dream in which miraculous things happen, old grudges are swept away, and children rediscover childhood. The book, a reve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:44PMMonday, November 14, 2016
One of Shakespeare’s greatest gifts is the inspiration he offers to other artists. In the case of Tame., playwright Jonelle Walker has captured the essence of Shakespeare’s Kate in The T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20AMThursday, September 22, 2016
Romeo and Juliet at the Shakespeare Theatre is a revelatory theatre experience. Director Alan Paul’s version of Romeo and Juliet has a complexity and richness that reaches deep into the me…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:22AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Hey Girl, I Hear You Read Jane Austen; Sense and Sensibility at the Folger Theatre The appeal of Jane Austen’s heroines lies in their lovability. In Sense and Sensibility, the two sisters,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:07PMFriday, August 19, 2016
The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Ethan McSweeny’s production makes us realize once again how profound it really is. This Tempest retains most of the cast of the origin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02AMFriday, July 29, 2016
W.H. Auden once said ,“Shylock is the outsider because he is the only serious person in the play.” Jonathan Pryce’s Shylock is a deeply serious person, and Pryce’s magnificent portr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:01PMFriday, July 15, 2016
A “show” was presented by one “David J. Goldberg”, purporting be a “theater piece” about a secret cabal of heartless corporations/rogue government agents/…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14AMMonday, July 11, 2016
What Happened After the Party? Theatre Prometheus’ Good Kids by Naomi Iizuka at the Fringe Theatre Prometheus, a new company, is presenting a remarkable production of Naomi Iizuka’s Good…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:44PMSaturday, July 9, 2016
Anyone Can Be President: Secret Honor at the Fringe “Scathing” “lacerating” and “brilliant” were three of the words the late Roger Ebert applied to the 1984 Robert Altman movie o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PM 
