Combining intriguing human and non-human characters and a heavy dose of magic, The Tempest is one of William Shakespeare's best-loved plays. The plot is well-known (even serving as the basis…
It's exciting for the Shakespeare Theatre Company that distinguished British director Michael Attenborough accepted an invitation to oversee a production. His choice"and the opening show of …
To paraphrase a much-more-sarcastic remark by Oscar Wilde about another work of art, one has to have a heart of stone not to cry at least a little at the death of Mimi, La Boheme's consumpti…
Trusting one's instincts (but backing them up with hard, cold facts) might be the theme of Earth and Sky, a contemporary take on film noir as live theater. This morning, after seeing the pla…
The broad reach and influence of Franz Kafka's deeply disturbing, yet funny, story Metamorphosis is illustrated by a line in Mel Brooks' 1968 film The Producers. Desperate to underwrite a fl…