Well, all right, you’ve got some money in your pocket, and you feel like unleashing your own personal stimulus program for Washington area theaters. You know the primary benefit of your tax-deductible contribution: quality theater, DC-style. But what’s the icing? How are you going to have fun at the same time you’re handing cash over […]
Brush up your Klingon
Shakespeare in Klingon II: The Wrath of (Michael) Kahn “I’ve never worked with Klingons before and I figure, after all these years, it’s about time.” – STC Artistic Director Michael Kahn on his role in the March fundraiser for WSC Avant Bard.
The Mistorical Hystery of Henry (I)V
No hystery mere: writer/director Tom Mallan’s purpose is to take the most powerful story in royal English history – Henry of Monmouth’s growth from a frivolous delinquent into the greatest of Kings – as written by the greatest of playwrights, and turn it inside out. In Mallan’s version, the transformance of Hal the Wastrel into […]
Happy Days
If, at times, theatre-going makes you painfully aware of the hours you spend sitting immobile in one spot, you start to have a teeny tiny inkling of how Winnie feels. The high-spirited heroine of Samuel Beckett’s play may have her head in the clouds, but the rest of her body is stuck in a deep, […]
WSC Avant Bard turns the Henry plays inside out
The newly re-named company announces casting for its Falstaff-centric comedy We all know this story…the one about Happy Hal, the Prince Who Stayed out Late. The heir to the English throne who drank, wenched, gambled and cavorted with cowards, petty thieves and whoremongers while the great monarch Henry IV fretted – and then who, miraculously, […]
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”.