Argonautika First presented in written form by Apollonius of Rhodes Adapted and Directed by Mary Zimmerman Produced by Shakespeare Theatre Company Reviewed by Tim Treanor Before Aristotle, before The Iliad, a thousand years before the birth of Christ, we were these people: vain, ambitious, passionate, heroic, cowardly, treacherous, capable of great valor and generosity of […]

Edward II By Christopher Marlowe Directed by Gale Edwards Produced by Shakespeare Theatre Reviewed by Tim Treanor You last saw him in Braveheart, the mewling, effeminate princeling, the scorned son of the ferocious King, Edward I Longshanks.  In Marlowe’s Edward II, now playing in rep with Tamburlaine at the Shakespeare Theatre’s new Harman Hall, Wallace […]

Tamburlaine By Christopher Marlowe Directed by Michael Kahn Produced by Shakespeare Theatre Company Reviewed by Tim Treanor The great difference between Shakespeare and Marlowe was not in the Bard’s use of language – Marlowe was almost his equal, and leagues ahead of everyone else – but in Shakespeare’s mastery of plotting, dramatic arc, and subtle […]

The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare Directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman Produced by Shakespeare Theatre Company Reviewed by Tim Treanor Jazzy, sweet and hilarious, Shakespeare Theatre’s production of The Taming of the Shrew is so stuffed with eye and ear candy that you will think you have wandered into a dessert factory and […]

By William Shakespeare Produced by Shakespeare Theatre Directed by Michael Kahn Reviewed by Tim Treanor This lush, gorgeous, thrilling, lucid, hilarious, moving, profound production of Hamlet succeeds because it is illuminated by an observation which is brilliant in its simplicity. Hamlet is a kid. Jeffrey Carlson plays theater’s toughest role as if he was a fish […]