Tag: Shakespeare Theatre Company
“The Puppets Help Tell the Story”: World Puppetry Day Interview with...
In honor of World Puppetry Day celebrated on March 21st, it was time to learn more about the puppetry used in the Shakespeare Theatre...
Review: ‘Vanity Fair’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
“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...
Dangereuse: The Women of Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘Richard the Third’
An embittered wife. A “painted queen.” A virago who curses all who have crossed her. At first glance, the women of Shakespeare Theatre Company's Richard...
Review: ‘Richard the Third’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Did ever a villain so enjoy his murderously evil ways as Shakespeare’s Richard III? In the Shakespeare Theatre’s production, Matthew Rauch’s Richard teaches a...
In the Moment: Impressions on STC’s ‘Richard the Third’
Complex villains are irresistible on stage and screen. They can be so magnetic. Their restlessness and shadings of evil keep my brain’s neurons firing....
Shakespeare Theatre Company Hosts Annual Mock Trial
On January 14, 2019, the Shakespeare Theatre Company presented its Winter Mock Trial at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW). Guests were invited...
Review: ‘The Panties, The Partner and The Profit’ at Shakespeare Theatre...
Just in time for an escape from too many holiday-spiked eggnog toasts, Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) provides an appealing, sugar-coated farce to indulge audiences....
Review: ‘An Inspector Calls’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
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...
Talking Shakespeare with Ted van Griethuysen at the Shakespeare Theatre Company
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...
Jiehae Park’s ‘Peerless’ Reimagines ‘Macbeth’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ReDiscovery Reading...
There was a significant “first” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) 2018-19 ReDiscovery Reading Series at the Lansburgh Theatre this week. It was a...
Interview: Composer and Lyricist Michael Dansicker on ‘The Comedy of Errors’
With the addition of original music from composer/lyricist Michael Dansicker, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s (STC) The Comedy of Errors is abandonment into farce. Whatever may...
Shakespeare Theatre Company Announces New Artistic Director: Simon Godwin
The Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) today announces the appointment of Simon Godwin as its next Artistic Director. Godwin, currently the Associate Director at the...
Dangereuse: The “Wow” Effect: Free-for-All ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Shakespeare...
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...
Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Free For All
Romeo & Juliet’s famous entreaty--“wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast”-- is strikingly realized in the latest addition to Shakespeare Theatre Company’s yearly...
Party On! ‘Will on the Hill’ at the Shakespeare Theatre Company
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...
Review: ‘Camelot’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Last month marked the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech. As threats to his life mounted, King...
In the Moment: Interview with Shakespeare Theatre Company Wig Master Dori...
How important can a wig be to a theater production and an actor’s performance? What better way to answer that question then with a...
Review: Druid’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ at the Shakespeare Theatre Company
“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...
Review: ‘Potted Potter’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Potted Potter, Potted Productions’ rollicking parody of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, is full of toy snakes, terrible wigs, and boatloads of physical comedy....
Dangereuse: The Two Noras: ‘Noura’ at the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Women’s...
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...