(Jason Fraley's article appeared on WTOP News, 8/5.) If you're planing on attending a local theater production, you better get vaccinated. An alliance of theaters across the D.C. area announ…
(From Shakespeare & Beyond; Photo: Savory Cogs Biscuits. Photo by Brittany Diliberto.) With the Folger's four-year Before 'Farm to Table' project drawing to a close, we're revisiti…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: It is better not to read verse at all, than read it in the way which is considered lawful, requisite, and patented in the sense of poetry and…
(Tom Rees's article appeared in the Telegraph, 7/31. Photo: A street entertainer performs on the Royal Mile during a previous Fringe Festival. Organisers are concerned another bad year for t…
(Kate Wyver's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/30; Photo: 'Uniquely startling' … Kunst und Revolution. Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images.) A history of theatre's most controversial mom…
By Bob Shuman Shakespeare in the Park returns to the Delacorte with a new version of The Merry Wives of Windsor, called Merry Wives, which is suited less for the outdoors than for small scre…
(via Jim Byk/Kelly Guiod, The Press Room) The Wooster Group's production of Bertolt Brecht's The Mother to make US debut  The Performing Garage October 2021  Photo: The Wooster G…
(Mark Fisher's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/22; Photo: Michael Hugo, Kira McPherson and Corinna Brown in Coppelia: A Mystery, directed by Theresa Heskins. Photographer: Jenny Harper.)…
(Sara Keating's article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/26; Photo: Waiting for Poirot performed at the People's Park, Limerick. Photograph: Keith Wiseman.) The daring murder mystery is full o…
(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency; Photo: (c) Daniel M. Weiss.) Based on Real-Life Struggles of Runners, One Woman Show Celebrates Resilience Through The Stories of Athletes  "Bracin…
30th Anniversary!! JULY 28 " AUGUST 14, 2021 HOT! began at Dixon Place in 1992 as the first inclusive all-embracing month-long LGBTQ+ festival of theater, dance, music, literature, performan…
(Dimiter Kenarov's article appeared in The New Yorker, 7/23; Photo: During the coronavirus pandemic, Ivo Dimchev embarked on a series of small-scale shows in private homes. Photographs by Mi…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The auditorium was filled by a crowd of simple workingmen and peasants. They listened to what was going on on the stage in the deepest of sil…
(Anna Galayda's article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 7/7; Photo: Olga Kereluk.) Â Young dancers from other countries frequently come to study at Russia's prestigious ballet sc…
(Sally Weale's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20; Photo: The education secretary, Gavin Williamson. Arts groups have warned cuts would affect the viability of some courses at universiti…
(Alex Ross's article appeared in The New Yorker, 7/19; illustration:Â The opera's atmosphere is at once sensual and unsettled"dread in vivid colors. Illustration by Jun Cen.) The new opera…
Vs. indulges in a virtual game of 'tag' Mabou Mines presents Vs. written by Carl Hancock Rux directed by Mallory Catlett Online premiere July 30 " August 8 Fridays and Saturday…
(Jessa Crispin's article appeared in the Spectator, 7/15; photo:Â Wallace Shawn in 2004"Getty.) Films, plays and novels can lurk, waiting for the right cultural context to resonate in a w…
(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/14; Photo: The tones converge … South Pacific, with choreography by Ann Yee. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Old shows often pass nervousl…
(Marty Rosen's article appeared in Leo Weekly, 7/14.) In 1398, King Richard II of England did something that astonished the cutthroat, blood-soaked world of medieval England: he stopped two …
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/13; Photograph: Marilyn Kingwill.) Starring in a Zoom production of the play Masks and Faces tested my acting skills " not to mentio…
(from Shakespeare & Beyond, 7/ 6/ 2021.) In a recent post on the Folger's Collation blog, assistant curator Elizabeth DeBold shared a small set of photographs, newly added to the F…
(from France24 ) The Avignon Festival is back after 2020's Covid-19 hiatus. France's biggest performing arts festival sees thousands of actors, dancers and musicians from around the world pe…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Our art is not eternal, but it is the most inescapable of all arts so far as our contemporaries are concerned. What strength there is in it! …
(Mary Coll's article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/8; Photo: Kathy Rose O'Brien stars as Vera in In the Middle of the Fields.) ★★★★ West Wall Walkway, Kilmallock Tim…