All posts tagged "folger theatre"
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Great Scot
Kate Eastwood Norris amps up the rage in Folger's "Mary Stuart"
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Theater Queens
"Gigi" at the Kennedy Center is no match for the queens in Folger Theatre's "Mary Stuart"
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Review: Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s “Julius Caesar”
Folger's production of the Bard classic is meticulous, captivating, and a fitting tale to retell in Washington
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Unromantic Comedies
Have you ever nodded off at the theater? Do you worry that you might be particularly prone to doing just that during Shakespeare, the bard...
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Couples, Killed and Comedic
Surely no one needs a spoiler alert about Romeo and Juliet. After all, what is probably William Shakespeare's most popular and most accessible play is...
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Untraditional Tidings
Got the holiday spirit – but tired of tradition? Call it bah-humbug blasphemy, but most area theaters and concert venues aim to entice the average...
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Flock of Foul
''There is nothing in the world as amazing as something that is neither completely clear, nor completely unclear,'' goes one of the morals imparted in...
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Westward, Shrew!
The West is more mild than wild in Folger Theatre's new production of The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare's so-called comedy that revels in...
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Magic Carpet Ride
Aladdin doesn't appear in Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights. Neither does Sinbad the Sailor. Both fairy tales weren't originally part of the stories of Scheherazade,...
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Whiz Kid
There are the things we know, and then there are the things we don't know. And then there are the things we think we know...
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Chilly Willy
The year was 1990. Madonna, decked out in her finest Marie Antoinette drag, hit the stage of the MTV Awards and made a song that...
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Wartime Zeroes
You would hardly need to fall into the ''news junkie'' category to be aware of how ugly the presidential campaign has gotten. Even a recent...
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School's Out
All one can really say about the Folger production of The School for Scandal is that it should have been good. A British director such...
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Illusions of Grandeur
This is not a Penn & Teller magic show. Instead, the Emmy-award winning Teller -- the silent partner in that world-renowned magic enterprise -- has...
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Shakespeare With Love
There is no better feeling than sitting in a theater, particularly one of significant reputation and stature, and watching a performance so fresh and vital...
