Monday, February 2, 2015
Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row.” This nursery rhyme is often said to be about Mary Stuart. The pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:35PMSunday, January 18, 2015
Before Benedict Cumberbatch starred in the incandescent puzzle palace that is Sherlock, there was William Gillette, the definitive Sherlock Holmes of his time. Tall, lean, with the manner of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15PMSaturday, January 10, 2015
Julius Caesar seems to be always with us. High school Latin still features Caesar’s Commentaries. Once there was a Russian Tsar. Now there is an Ebola czar. Caesar appears on Pinterest, Tu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27PMTuesday, December 9, 2014
“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” ― Henry James, Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:04PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
As You Like It is a celebration of love; love as we hope it will be, love as it often is, and love as a harbinger of growth and redemption. The Shakespeare Theatre’s As You Like It is a v…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMMonday, November 3, 2014
Folger Theatre launches its 2014-15 season with a strikingly imaginative production of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, a play whose contradictions and cruelties mirror the bewildering …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:06PMSaturday, October 25, 2014
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Our War, an unforgettable production, explores the present-day echoes and historical memories of the Civil War, in a series of monologues which are really li…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PMMonday, October 20, 2014
Crying Wolf; ‘The Wolfe Twins’ at Studio Theatre The Wolfe Twins, by Rachel Bonds, is a World Premiere by Studio Lab, which features scaled-back productions of provocative new plays. Fir…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:42PMSaturday, September 13, 2014
The Devil Made Me Do It: An Evening with the Antichrist A dying man, said to be, among others, Vol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49AMSunday, July 13, 2014
In this delightful comedy, six 6th graders are running for President of Mrs. Jacobson’s Sixth Grade class. You, the audience, get to participate and choose the winner. In the age of St…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PM(Best of the Capital Fringe) Shakespeare’s Coriolanas has been played, memorably, by some of the greatest actors. Richard Burton played it; Laurence Olivier played it twice, and here in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:24AMSunday, May 4, 2014
You Deserve a Break Today We’ve all heard those jokes about the corporation. In Taiwan, the translation of the Pepsi slogan “Come alive with the Pepsi Generation, came out as “P…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:52PMSaturday, May 3, 2014
Blues for an Alabama Sky at Port City Playhouse:A Kiss to Build a Dream On: After the Harlem Renaissance The gifted and much admired Pearl Cleage is a poetic playwright. Her dialogue shine…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:09PMMonday, April 21, 2014
Girl Crazy Start with Shakespeare. Add some very clever dramaturgy, cut a few characters, and incorporate a gifted group of artists. You will have a magical night in the theatre. The D.C. de…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57AMSaturday, April 19, 2014
Henry IV Part 2 King for a Day Have you ever lived life without a superego? If so, you may have some notion of what it’s like to be Falstaff. The exhilarating feeling is one reason we ar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38PMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Henry IV Part One: Honor Among Thieves Falstaff, like Sherlock Holmes, is one of those characters who are so memorable they almost seem alive. He is at the center of Shakespeare Theatre Comp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35PMThursday, February 27, 2014
Orlando: Right You Are, if You Think You Are In Some Like It Hot (directed by Billy Wilder) Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, on the lam after witnessing a mob killing, pose as girls in an all-gi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:46PMFriday, February 7, 2014
Schopenhauer once said,“Talent hits a target that no one else can hit. Genius hits a target that no one else can see.” These words are uniquely apposite to describe the genius of Bertolt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:39PMMonday, February 3, 2014
After the discovery of Richard III’s remains in a Leicester car park in August 2012, it was concluded that far from being a hunchback, as some have stated, he suffered from scoliosis, an a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06AMSunday, February 2, 2014
Richard, We Hardly Knew Ye Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, and with good reason. In his fascinating interview posted on the National Theatre’s website, Sir Ian Mc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44PM 
