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, […]
It’s been a long time since I’ve sat in an audience and squirmed as uncomfortably as I did while the menacing violence unfolds in the Folger’s production of Shakespeare’s Othello. The race and relationship tragedy, running through December 4, left me despairing over the damnable and downright creepy Iago, played cunningly by Ian Merril Peakes, and […]
I hope everyone else is breathing a little easier now that it is back to our normal balmy (i.e. not hellish) weather. I’ll take some rain and a flooded basement with a smile this week, thank you very much. It looks like we might encounter a thunderstorm or two throughout the weekend, but if you’re […]