Thursday, April 11, 2019
“I think you have to define who you are–and that definition can change–but you have to be as uncompromising as you possibly can about who you think you are, and to fight for that, in b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:34PMWednesday, March 6, 2019
“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.” –Becky Sharp William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) is considered a great writer. Vanity Fair, despite its flaws, is h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:28PMMonday, February 18, 2019
Hansol Jung is an imaginative young playwright whose work focuses on feeling perpetually uprooted. Born in Jeonju, South Korea, she moved with her family to South Africa at the age of 6. Whe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:07PMSunday, February 10, 2019
Nell Gwynn (1650-1687) was not only one of the most talented actresses in Restoration Theatre, but also one of the most beloved. That was because “pretty, witty” Nell, as diarist Samuel …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:29PMSunday, January 13, 2019
It is 1605. The Gunpowder Plot, in which a group of disaffected Catholics attempted to blow up King James I, his wife, his children, and all the political and religious leaders of the age, h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMMonday, December 17, 2018
Kings at Studio Theatre is both entertaining and thought-provoking in every sense. Beautifully acted and directed, it reminds us that politicians, even though it may be hard to believe at ti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50AMWednesday, November 28, 2018
J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, as directed by Stephen Daldry, represents the best of international theatre. The play combines the chocolate-box delights of an Agatha Christie mystery…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16AMThursday, November 22, 2018
New York-based Aquila Theatre has been hailed by The New Yorker for its innovative staging of the classics. Founded in London in 1991, the company has a regular season of productions as well…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:32AMTuesday, October 30, 2018
How do you interview a legend? This was the question I pondered on the way to the Lansburgh Theatre to interview Ted van Griethuysen, one of the finest actors of his generation. Shakespeare…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:27PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
In January 1666, famed diarist Samuel Pepys saw a performance of the William Davenant Macbeth and called it a “strange perfection.” The production that just opened at the Folger Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:32PMSunday, August 26, 2018
First-rate Shakespeare for free is one of the most valuable gifts the Shakespeare Theatre offers the DC community. The two-week run of Romeo and Juliet is a reprise of director Alan Paul’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:59PMSunday, July 29, 2018
Why do people commit evil, and once they have started, why can’t they stop? Now, as always, it is a question worth asking. Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, is an exploration…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:17PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Romeo and Juliet, Beatrice and Benedick, and even (don’t say it) Macbeth were on hand for a Shakespearean love fest on Monday night, all to benefit the wonderful education programs the Sha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:40PMThursday, May 17, 2018
Long before he wrote about her, George Bernard Shaw referred to Saint Joan as one of those “half-witted geniuses, enjoying the worship accorded by all races to certain forms of insanity.�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:38AMSaturday, May 5, 2018
The fabled Royal Shakespeare Company brought its Hamlet to the Kennedy Center this week, in a production fully worthy of its glittering reputation. The RSC Hamlet is lavish, bursting with fr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
“A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it…” — André Breton (1896–1966) French writer, poet, and founder of Surrealism. Artistic Director P…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” says Nell in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. Druid’s production of Waiting for Godot at the Shakespeare Theatre Company proves the truth of this stat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20PMMonday, April 9, 2018
There is always a good reason to see Tonya Beckman perform, and she is a superb Don Juan. Her rendition of the famous seducer is beguiling but at the same time horrifying, like watching a pa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:41AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” – James Baldwin Southern humor, gentle charm, and the awkward…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17AMThursday, March 15, 2018
It was a real pleasure to interview Aaron Posner, acclaimed playwright and director, who is directing Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, which opened at the Folger Theatre on March 13.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30PMSunday, February 18, 2018
Noura, the story of a Chaldean Christian refugee from Iraq, is a magnificent production. The acting is first-rate, the technical aspects flawless, the whole experience complex and full of de…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:47PMThursday, February 8, 2018
Something Rotten! at the National Theatre reminds us of why we loved theater in the first place. The Broadway show received ten Tony nominations, and this national tour is pure joy. The cast…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AMThursday, January 25, 2018
The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet, directed by Michael Kahn, is a rich, multi-layered interpretation of a uniquely great play. Hamlet is central to the Western literar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29AMMonday, January 22, 2018
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” So said F. Scott Fitzgerald, at the end of The Great Gatsby. Waxing West, by Saviana Stanescu, is the st…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11PMSaturday, January 20, 2018
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14AMMonday, January 15, 2018
The Way of the World, a deft satire of the mating habits and financial vicissitudes of the 1%, arrived at the Folger Theatre last night. It was a hilarious evening. Theresa Rebeck’s comedy…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:54PMWednesday, December 20, 2017
The National Chamber Ensemble’s Holiday Cheer! on December 16 was a celebration of great music. The charming and witty Artistic Director and leading violinist, Leonid Sushansky, sees each …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20AMThursday, November 23, 2017
Many consider Twelfth Night Shakespeare’s supreme achievement in comedy. It is also one of his most popular and frequently produced plays. George Bernard Shaw, who hated Shakespeare, descr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02PMWednesday, November 15, 2017
Straight Outta Denmark Hamlet has a storied history, and the title role is one of the greatest in Shakespeare. It is also universally parodied: the BBC’s 60 Second Shakespeare tabloid re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:37AMMonday, October 23, 2017
Big Brother Really, Really Likes You Your online identity does not belong to you. Digital Eye, a transatlantic theater project that was presented Monday and Tuesday, October 16-17, at Blin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PMFriday, 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 02:38PM 
