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 […]

Over Breakfast, Tim Nelson Talks In Series and Opera
• April 25, 2022

How did In Series, D.C.’s 40-year-old presenter of small-scale, opera-related productions, get its name? From all the “in” words — intimate, independent, innovative, inexpensive — used to describe it, according […]

Google’s Online Dictionary: Sub-Optimal, Rubbishy 
• April 4, 2022

Sure, we all turn to Google to launch our web searches and often find what we were looking for in just a few clicks. But, has anyone noticed just how […]