Tag: Hamlet

The George Washington University’s Department of Theatre and Dance has an engaging and lively production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, running through the weekend....

After working as an actor and director in the DC area for more than 30 years, and after teaching at both Catholic University and...

Synetic Theater and Dorian Gray to Host The Vampire's Ball Friday, November 1, 2013 at 8pm Tickets to Synetic Theater's Annual Halloween Party to Include...

Synetic Theater's Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili talks about his new production of The Picture of Dorian Gray. What makes this production so new and...

My first instinct when adapting Dorian Gray was that it would be easy—never a good sign. That being said though, come on: Synetic and...

The notorious aesthete Oscar Wilde believed that beauty is be-all and end-all. After The Painting of Dorian Gray met with moral outrage upon its publication in...

The main character of Synetic Theater's new adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, based on Oscar Wilde’s only novel, is a handsome young man...

As he is preparing to star as Dorian Gray at Synetic Theater, Dallas Tolentino takes us behind the scenes of preparing for his role. Joel: Why...

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. To take on one of Shakespeare’s epic dramas with only four actors portraying all...

“If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.” Says Benedick...

Any man that hath no beard she be too much a woman for him, and the man that hath a beard he be too...

Oh that someone were here to write him down an ass! Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s Alex Foley is far from being an ass, but getting...

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy, so might I say how joyful I am that in this case breaking the silence is going...

On a perfect summer evening, the National Symphony Orchestra took on two Russians – Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff – during their popular NSO@Wolf Trap Summer...

No doubt about it: this is not your father’s (not to mention your English teacher’s) Shakespeare. Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing opens with...

I will be in Philadelphia this weekend and will be attending the Friday night performance of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical at The...

We’ve all had that nightmare— showing up in our underwear and not knowing what we supposed to say or how we got there? Now...

Zachary Appelman has audiences and critics hailing his royal performance as Henry V at Folger Theatre. He tells us how he prepared for the...

Director Robert Richmond talks about his vision for Henry V at Folger Theatre, which is receiving raves from audiences and local critics alike. Joel: Why did you...

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with sleep.” William Shakespeare’s words straight from The Tempest....