So, with all the freezing temps and such I’ve been advocating staying close to home and warm. Surely this is the “winter of our discontent” (Act I, Scene I). But, indeed, I did “play the devil’ (Act I, Scene 3) because you’re running out of time to see Richard III at the Folger Shakespeare Library. […]
The Folger Shakespeare Library has launched its 2013/14 season with one of Shakespeare’s classics: Romeo and Juliet. By this point in life, everyone has read and/or seen some production of these star crossed lovers and most can quote many of its most famous lines. So since one isn’t going to this production to be surprised […]
The latest season at the Folger Theatre is wrapping up with one of my favorite Shakespeare comedies: Twelfth Night. With love triangles, mistaken identities, scheming, sword fights and drunken hilarity, Twelfth Night’s storyline is as intricate (and more entertaining) as your average daytime soap opera. The show opens with a shipwreck that separates Viola and […]
These days it seems like dukes, duchesses and dowagers are all anybody talks about, but the kings of England and France, their armies and foes, are on the stage at The Folger Theatre in Henry V, and they are worth the attention. Power, leadership, honor, and tradition weigh heavy on the shoulders of the inexperienced […]
Take a hefty shot of the Jeff Bridges film Crazy Heart, a smidge of Naoimi Wolf, and the Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s charming habit of showing something new in the Bard’s best known plays, and you’ll have the current production of The Taming of the Shrew, running through June 10th. The 10th is coming up soon, […]