Like spring crocuses peeking out of the melting snow, DC-area theaters are beginning to formulate a path back to their audiences, tentative but real. Shakespeare Theatre Company is among the first to do so, with a six-production portfolio – not quite a schedule, as dates have not been announced – of plays, some virtual, some […]
DC theatres open lobbies as safe spaces for Black Lives Matter protestors
Update: Source and The 9:30 Club become the latest venues to open their doors to protestors. With thousands of people planned to gather in DC this weekend to protest police brutality, a number of theaters have joined the #OpenYourLobby movement and announced that they will open their lobbies and bathrooms to allow protestors to rest […]
1984, presented by Shakespeare Theatre Company (review)
1984, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s newest visiting international production, combines cutting-edge technology with a very old technique for making political plays for this new adaptation of a classic novel simultaneously politically vacuous and literally physically painful to watch.
Steven McKnight’s Top 10 shows of 2015
10. Murder Ballad, Studio Theatre Recent explorations of “immersive theatre” received a boost with this rock musical about a scorching love triangle headed for trouble. The four performers careened through the realistic bar setting (featuring full service drinks for patrons before and after the show), making special use of the pool table for the […]
Stage Briefs by Keith Loria
A roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from Shakespeare Theatre, Imagination Stage, Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, Synetic Theater and La-Ti-Do.
C. S. Lewis adaptation,The Great Divorce, is at times surpassingly funny
The Great Divorce is a story about the bus ride from Hell – literally: the Redemption Express from the bad section (there is no good section) of “the gray town” to the verdant fields of the much larger and denser Heaven. Like Sartre and Camus and also like Dante Alighieri, whose work this recalls, C.S. […]
Attention all Muggles: the NYC hit Potted Potter lands at the Harman next week
All 7 Harry Potter books in 70 minutes The unfortunate reality of devoted fandom is that sometimes the curtain falls on the objects of our affection. Long after we’ve waited in line for hours outside the bookstore or braved the throngs of costumed fans for a midnight showing of the movie premier, the action simply […]
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Christopher Hampton’s eventual theatrical translation, mine the lives of the French idle rich for drama and moral insight, presenting a twisted cautionary tale of seduction and doomed love.
Shakespeare Theatre holds Twitterfest for April 19 Strange Interlude
The April 19 production of the Shakespeare Theatre’s Strange Interlude at Harman Hall will begin with the usual injunctions: turn off your cell phone, your Blackberry, your I-phone, your beeper, your camera, your thermonuclear devices. Then, at the first intermission, you will get a Strange Invitation: turn on your Smart Phone or I-Pad, and tweet […]
We finally have a text. The exploration of our characters continues
Strange Interlude rehearsals continue. We entered rehearsals with a carefully edited script, but it has kept on changing and evolving. There were times when we would stop, in the middle of rehearsing a scene, and put some dialogue back in. I know the play pretty much by heart at this point, and I could see […]
Shakespeare Theatre announces it 2012-2013 season
Familiar hands to be at the tiller : Kahn, Muse, Posner, McSweeney, Lord and Taichman A brand new adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, done in repertory with a production of Coriolanus directed by Studio Theatre Artistic Director David Muse, highlights the 2012-2013 theater lineup which the Shakespeare Theatre announced […]
Much Ado about Floyd King and Ted van Griethuysen
Floyd and Ted’s Excellent Adventure with the Bard Actors Floyd King and Ted van Griethuysen are mad about the Bard. They have nothing but good things to say about Shakespeare and not just because they are long-time members of the Shakespeare Theatre Company and teach at its Academy for Classical Acting.
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