Tag: William Shakespeare

A multiple Barrymore Award winner, Liz Filios has twice been recognized as Best Actress in a Musical for her lead roles in Midsummer at Inis...

Everything about Filter Theatre's Twelfth Night, playing at University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, is unconventional. It's part-musical, part-performance art, part-audience participation, and the...

In Part 7 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, meet Toni Rae Salmi. Joel:...

In Part 6 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, meet Christian R. Gibbs. Joel:...

In Part 5 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, meet Daven Ralston. Joel: Where...

The Winter’s Tale: Warm Production for a Cold Winter’s Night Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has taken a challenging late Shakespearean play – The Winter’s Tale from...

In Part 4 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, meet Linda Bard. Joel: Where...

In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, meet Annalisa Dias. Joel: Where...

Every excellent comedy offers an unexpected mix of elements. In Humble Boy – opening tonight, Friday, January 8, 2016, at Silver Spring Stage –...

William Shakespeare’s delightful comedy Twelfth Night rings in the New Year at Laurel Mill Playhouse. The run of the show cleverly opens on the...

Back in December 2014 I had a conversation with the Director Kevin Finkelstein that has stayed with me. I had just seen his staging...

To judge by social media, love and madness are a thing. Here are a few choice examples now making the rounds in the meme-osphere: “Love...

Equivocation, Bill Cain’s alternative history about William Shakespeare getting caught up in deadly royal court intrigue, is exceedingly clever and almost dizzyingly erudite. And...

In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the director and cast of Prince William Little Theatre’s production of Julius Caesar – set...

This coming weekend, October 2-4, 2015 officially launches Columbia Festival of the Arts' British Invasion themed Fall Festival. The British Invasion presents eleven dynamic events offered in multiple...

Summer music festivals in both the pop and classical music worlds can come with a lot of flash and dash. But not to be...

 THAT IS THE QUESTION: THE SHAKESPEARE TRIVIA CHALLENGE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH The Forum in Sidney Harman Hall 610 F Street NW 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. (event check-in begins...

When Cole Porter’s classic musical Kiss Me Kate first premiered on Broadway, it featured a cast of 40 singers and dancers. This makes sense,...

With our calendars getting increasingly crowded and revisiting the plays we read (were supposed to read/wanted to read/never thought of reading) in high school...

Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It is fun for the family. The Meadow, just below the historic Evergreen House, is a lovely place to spend a...