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 […]
It seems like it was just yesterday we were planning our Memorial Day barbecue, and now here we are sending out a Save the Date for the Labor Day backyard party. There are just a few more weeks to take advantage of summer, so savor every opportunity. Last week, I gave you a few […]
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 […]
I’m not new to musical theater—I was, after all, a singing fairy in my high school’s production of A Mid Summer Night’s Dream. In fact, acting runs in my family. It just so happens that a very distant cousin is an actress in Hollywood. So when I saw that St. Mark’s Players would be hosting […]
If there are neighborhood residents who have hoped and prayed for a movie theater to open on Capitol Hill – your prayers may soon be answered. That’s because an interdenominational church based on Capitol Hill is moving forward with plans to restore and operate the historic Meader’s Theater on Barracks Row.