Washington Shakespeare is Dead. Long Live WSC Avant Bard

“What’s in a name?” the Bard of Avon once asked. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

Perhaps. But it wouldn’t be as well described, and so after twenty-one years as The Washington Shakespeare Company, the Rosslyn-based troupe has renamed itself “WSC Avant Bard”. [Read more...]

The Ramayana

Monkey butt jokes, Bollywood-style dance sequences, parables about how to be the ideal husband and wife, delectable world music and actors who make virtue and duty seem kinda sexy intermingle in Constellation Theatre Company’s remounting of last season’s hit The Ramayana. [Read more...]