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All posts tagged "shakespeare theatre company"

  • Juno and the Paycock at WSC

    The Irish tenements of the early 1920s were a close-knit and crowded place. Seated cheek-by-jowl at the Washington Shakespeare Company’s compelling Juno and the Paycock,...

  • Satirical Song

    Next June, Doug Peck will get married in his hometown of Chicago. ”It’s not legal yet but we’re doing it anyway,” he says. The...

  • Good Cheer

    Despite the valiant attempts being made in some corners, the bright bauble of reality television has eclipsed what was once television's most reliable version of...

  • Artisphere's Holiday Hugs and Kisses

    On Saturday afternoon, Dec. 4, Artisphere hosted Holiday Hugs & Kisses ''to demonstrate broad community and regional support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT)...

  • Candide at The Shakespeare Theatre

    The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s first musical theater performance at Sidney Harman Hall comes with this magnificent comic operetta, boasting music by Leonard Bernstein (West Side...

  • Mary Stuart at The Washington Shakespeare Co.

    A must-see for Wolf Hall groupies (and HBO Tudors hoi palloi), the Washington Shakespeare Company’s Mary Stuart is spare, measured and unadorned. For director Colin...

  • All in the Family

    As one contemplates the Washington Shakespeare Company's move from Clark Street to Rosslyn, it's easy to imagine a magical creature emerging from its dark cave...

  • Richard III at Washington Shakespeare Co.

    One of Shakespeare’s most complex and fascinating characters is central to Richard III, arguably the bard’s most entertaining history play. The Washington Shakespeare Company is...

  • Set to Stun

    Christopher Henley photographed by Julian Vankim on Friday, Sept. 10 Going to a Washington Shakespeare Company performance at the Clark Street Playhouse was always something...

  • Life After Folk

    ''Could you tell me, like, where's a good place to go?'' -- Justin Taylor, Episode 1, Queer as Folk. Many of us first saw Randy...

  • Puppet Masters

    Brent Michael DiRoma is standing in the middle of the lobby of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre as a small crew of Metro Weekly...

  • Sing Out Loud

    Despite the time that's passed since Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty first sent their profanity-spewing puppets on stage to deliver such toe-tappers as...

  • Coverboy Q [video]

      Last Friday, July 16, in the lobby of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre, Yusef Najafi sat down with Nicky and Rod, two of...

  • Suffragette City

    For those who tend to think of late Victorian/early Edwardian feminism in terms of the insuppressibly cheerful suffragette mother in Mary Poppins, George Bernard Shaw's...

  • Screenings at Shakespeare

    Organizers of the 19th annual Reel Affirmations Film Festival, running Oct. 15 to 24, announced this week that the upcoming event’s main venue will be...