The Folger Theatre on Capitol Hill performs modern reworkings of Shakespeare classics. As the bard’s bastion in D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library is one of the foremost research centers in the world. Folger Theatre has staged over half of the plays in William’s First Folio, earning numerous Helen Hayes Awards and a reputation for fresh interpretation. […]
Archives for September 2014
Making Toast with dog & pony dc
Science is a creative enterprise. Let’s start there. If you survey the unassuming objects of your daily life—hair dryer, stapler, scissors, fridge—you can see the moments in time that someone, somewhere, grabbed hold of an opportunity that had just become available. Scissors couldn’t exist without first developing the sharpened blade. And scissors as we know […]
UpClose: Actress Caroline Clay in Gidion’s Knot
As an actor, Caroline Stefanie Clay seeks out opportunities to tackle challenging roles in complex plays and she found a big one playing Corryn Fell.
First look at Yentl at Theater J with director Shirley Serotsky
Barbra Streisand, her hair cropped boyishly close, singing “Papa, can you hear me?” It’s a memory that takes people back to the early 1980s. As we watch her character now, disguising as a man in order to avail herself of religious studies from which women were precluded, it provokes thoughts about gender that resonate differently […]
It’s pretty, but is theatre any longer necessary?
I make theatre and I like to sail. My theatrical vocation and my nautical hobby permit me to observe that America’s distorted version of theatre exactly parallels its distorted vision of lighthouses. The distortion is more visible as concerns lighthouses because it leaves artifacts; the flea market in Wallingford, Connecticut (from which I’ve just returned) […]