Tag: Shakespeare’

Few things are as "Capital Fringe" as an irreverent take on the Bard, and King's Players have got themselves a hell of an irreverent take in their outrageous farce MacWHAT?! Fittingly...

This is a rare opportunity to see the avant-garde Theatre of Self-Loathing, bringing the best of Eastern European theatre to the DC audience. Eddie...

Read a description of The Winter’s Tale, and you may think William Shakespeare imbibed a little too much while writing it. The absurdity of...

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair,” and Anne is Nan and Nan is Anne, but only on the west coast. This is Hollywood...

There was never a dull moment in Twelfth Night: A Musical Remix directed by Justin Poole. This version of William Shakespeare’s well-known comedy, filled...

WE HAPPY FEW PRODUCTIONS Presents: THE WINTER’S TALE By William Shakespeare A Part of the 10​th ​Annual Capital Fringe Festival, July 9​​-August 2, 2015. I am a feather for...

Imagine one of Shakespeare’s dodgiest characters, John Falstaff, as a political advisor in modern day DC. Fired by the President he runs a K...

Sharp, funny, and irreverent, the world premiere of The Wedding Party will be invading this summer’s Capital Fringe Festival! Playwrights Megan Dominy and Mimsi...

"This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" sings Matthew Ancarrow at the end of Act 1, as Antipholus of...

What’s not to like about Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s presentation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona? The playwright has had some good reviews. So, too, has...

Tonight, Laurel Mill Playhouse will be presenting one of Shakespeare’s later comedies, The Tempest. Unlike the Bard’s earlier comedies, The Tempest does not rely on...

When William Shakespeare’s plays first made their appearances at the Globe Theatre, men played all of the roles. No one questioned a male Juliet...

Walking into the Folger Theatre, I did a double-take. This clearly was going to be a different visual experience for Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Folger Theatre is a sumptuously original production of the breakthrough play of one of England’s greatest living...

If Hamlet as a character is historically—and enduringly—shrouded in fog, the scene that greets us as we enter Lumina Studio Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s...

Taffety Punk has given us a passionate Hamlet, whose loneliness, wit, and audacity make him utterly unsuited to the corrupt and deceptive society in...

It doesn't sound like much of an epitaph for a Broadway season, but Something Rotten is indeed the title of the last show to...

It is extraordinary that Constellation Theatre Company continues to seek out and present works of artistry that would likely be unknown to us. And...

Director Ian Gallanar, and his cast and crew have thoroughly delivered on the promise of a “lusty, fiery production” of the classic tale of...

In sooth I know no other way to write my thoughts of seeing friends both here and past bestride the open boards of a holy cockpit to...