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At STC, Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ Checks off All the Right Boxes
April 17, 2025
•This weekend is your last chance to catch ‘Downton Abbey’ star Hugh Bonneville in ‘Uncle Vanya’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC). A perfect blend of comedy and poignant emotion, this […]
Weekend Roundup: April 17-20
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D.C. is celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday, Uncorked at Nationals Park and of course lots of Easter brunch options. Have a great weekend! Celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday Saturday The tradition continues! Celebrate Shakespeare’s […]
STC’s ‘Comedy of Errors’: Connecting, We Find Ourselves
September 19, 2024
•By Lucy Cullen The Shakespeare Theater Company opened its production of William Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors” on Sept. 10, directed by Simon Godwin. The show follows Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse […]
Shakespeare in the Library: Will’s World and Today’s Theatre
November 28, 2023
•Join us in our Library for a discussion with special collections librarian Yuri Long and guests from the Shakespeare Everywhere festival. They put early modern literature into conversation with contemporary […]
‘A Christmas Carol’ at Ford’s
November 22, 2023
•This year — this Dec. 19 to be exact — is the 180th anniversary of the publication of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” If you were one of the 6,000 […]
A Bouquet of Ballets for the Bard
November 9, 2023
•On Oct. 26 to 29, the Washington Ballet showed off its versatility in a program at the Warner Theatre called “Such Sweet Thunder: An Evening Inspired by William Shakespeare.” Part […]
Last Chance to See ‘Till’ and ‘Requiem’
November 14, 2022
•Two powerfully moving productions by risk-taking companies based in Washington, D.C. — Mosaic Theater Company and In Series — are due to close this Sunday, Nov. 20. Mosaic’s “The Till […]
Dynamic Play Brings Da Vinci’s Notebooks to Life
October 13, 2022
•“The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” is a theatrical treasure chest of selections from more than 5,000 pages of the masterful Italian Renaissance artist’s 15th century notebooks with diagrams, drawings, personal notes […]
Fun, Almost Back-to-Normal Summer Weekend in Georgetown
June 13, 2022
•Pools open! Parades and parties! Picnics in the park. Pop-ups including a free champagne garden party. Plenty of shopping in Georgetown — with a chance to slip easily over to Virginia to […]
Toni Morrison’s ‘Desdemona’ With a Nina Simone Score
June 9, 2022
•Under Artistic Director Timothy Nelson, In Series is marking its 40th anniversary year with “a season of resurgence, of defiant hope, of obstinate creativity, of radical love.” Ambitiously and imaginatively […]