Taffety Punk has given us a passionate Hamlet, whose loneliness, wit, and audacity make him utterly unsuited to the corrupt and deceptive society in which he lives. Go if you like Shakespear…
The glittering prizes keep coming for Fun Home, a mainstream musical about a young lesbian and her closeted gay father. Fun Home received 12, that's right 12, Tony nominations, for Best M…
Tea and Entropy: Lettice and Lovage at the Quotidian Theatre Company Lettice and Lovage is crafted with love, a fitting tribute to a playwright, Peter Shaffer, whose passion for words makes …
Hail, Tuna! Greater Tuna will delight you, whether you have ever lived in a small town or whether the closest you have ever been to one is the East Village in New York. As directed by Lucind…
T.S. Eliot's great poem The Hollow Men is sometimes said to be about the shell-shocked soldiers of the First World War. ("We are the hollow men/We are the stuffed men/ Leaning together /Head…
Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row." This nursery rhyme is often said to be about Mary Stuart. The pret…
Before Benedict Cumberbatch starred in the incandescent puzzle palace that is Sherlock, there was William Gillette, the definitive Sherlock Holmes of his time. Tall, lean, with the manner of…
Julius Caesar seems to be always with us. High school Latin still features Caesar's Commentaries. Once there was a Russian Tsar. Now there is an Ebola czar. Caesar appears on Pinterest, Tumb…
"We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." ― Henry James,Ã…
As You Like It is a celebration of love; love as we hope it will be, love as it often is, and love as a harbinger of growth and redemption. The Shakespeare Theatre's As You Like It is a v…
Folger Theatre launches its 2014-15 season with a strikingly imaginative production of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, a play whose contradictions and cruelties mirror the bewildering …
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Our War, an unforgettable production, explores the present-day echoes and historical memories of the Civil War, in a series of monologues which are really li…
Crying Wolf; 'The Wolfe Twins' at Studio Theatre The Wolfe Twins, by Rachel Bonds, is a World Premiere by Studio Lab, which features scaled-back productions of provocative new plays. First-r…
The Devil Made Me Do It: An Evening with the Antichrist                                 …
In this delightful comedy, six 6th graders are running for President of Mrs. Jacobson's Sixth Grade class.  You, the audience, get to participate and choose the winner. In the age of …
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Shakespeare's Coriolanas has been played, memorably, by some of the greatest actors. Richard Burton played it; Laurence Olivier played it twice, and here in …
You Deserve a Break Today We've all heard those jokes about the corporation. In Taiwan, the translation of the Pepsi slogan "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation, came out as "Pepsi w…
Blues for an Alabama Sky at Port City Playhouse:A Kiss to Build a Dream On: After the Harlem Renaissance The gifted and much admired Pearl Cleage is a poetic playwright. Her dialogue shi…
Girl Crazy Start with Shakespeare. Add some very clever dramaturgy, cut a few characters, and incorporate a gifted group of artists. You will have a magical night in the theatre. The D.C. de…
Henry IV Part 2 King for a Day Have you ever lived life without a superego? If so, you may have some notion of what it's like to be Falstaff. The exhilarating feeling is one reason we ar…
Henry IV Part One: Honor Among Thieves Falstaff, like Sherlock Holmes, is one of those characters who are so memorable they almost seem alive. He is at the center of Shakespeare Theatre Comp…
Orlando: Right You Are, if You Think You Are In Some Like It Hot (directed by Billy Wilder) Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, on the lam after witnessing a mob killing, pose as girls in an all-gi…
Schopenhauer once said,"Talent hits a target that no one else can hit. Genius hits a target that no one else can see." These words are uniquely apposite to describe the genius of Bertolt Bre…
After the discovery of Richard III's remains in a Leicester car park in August 2012, it was concluded that far from being a hunchback, as some have stated, he suffered from scoliosis, an abn…
Richard, We Hardly Knew Ye Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, and with good reason. In his fascinating interview posted on the National Theatre's website, Sir Ian McKell…