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“As You Like It” at the Folger Library

Rosalind, daughter of a deposed Duke Senior (Allen McCollough) is finally exiled by h...

theater
Dramatized Version of “Sense and Sensibility” at the Folger Shakespeare Library

Jane Austen's first novel,"Sense and Sensibility,"  follows the romantic lives of two...

theater
“District Merchants” by Aaron Posner

Aaron Posner's new play--currently being performed at the Folger Shakespeare Library--...

theater
“Phaeton” by Michael Milligan

Phaeton  is unusual for a contemporary play for two reasons:  it is in verse and it...

philosophy
Journey to the West

The  Constellation Theatre Company has staged many tales of of mythology and fantasy:...

theater
The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord

In this play by Scott Carpenter and staged by the Washington Stage Guild, Jefferson, D...

theater
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Folger Library

All is not well amongst young Athenians. Hermes and Lysander are in love but Hermia's ...

theater
Two Amusing One Act Plays

The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC is staging two one-act comedies at i...

theater
Impure Comedies

The basic plot of Sarah Ruhl's "Stage Kiss" (directed by Aaron Posner at the Round Hou...

theater
Pericles at the Folger Library

Pericles, an underrated Shakespeare play, is being given a fine performance at the Fol...

theater
Lovecraft on Stage

H. P.Lovecraft (1890-1937) is probably, after Edgar Allan Poe and alongside Ambrose Bi...

theamericanculture
“Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom” by Jennifer Haley

The Molotov Theatre group is devoted to plays in the Grand Guignol style, which basicall...

theater
A Semi-Existentialist Comedy: Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”

At the beginning of this play, Rosencrantz (Rommell Witherspoon) and Guildenstern (Adam...

theater
Review: Another Visit with Chekhov’s Unnecessarily Tragic ‘Uncle Vanya’

After premiering in 1899, Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya went on to become a theatrical sta...

religion
Throwback Thursday: A Century of Western Self-Delusion About Islam

In the runup to the horrors of the First World War, social turmoil seemed to be the (dis)...

popularstories
Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Outrage Provides New Moral Clarity

For all his failings as a national leader, President Obama has been a great gift to moral...

theater
Schiller’s ‘Mary Stuart’: A Theatrical Tale of Personality and Power

Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, was murdered, and a few mon...

theater
A Highly Entertaining Theatrical Brew: ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’

Rapture, Blister, Burn is a smart, funny play that deals with three people who are brou...

art
Avenging the Honor of Free Speech

January 7, 2015, will be remembered as the day Islamic terrorists declared war against f...

theater
A Fine ‘Julius Caesar’ at the Folger Library

After Hamlet, Julius Caesar is among my two or three favorite Shakespeare plays; yet I h...

religion
The Devil in His Own Words

The Devil has often been written about and Marcus Kyd of the Taffety Punk Theatre Compan...

theater
Pol Pot & Associates, LLP

The stage setting for this latest play by Kathleen Akerley (who also directs it) is the...

theater
Yellow Face at Theater J in Washington, D.C.

Race is a notoriously difficult subject to address in the United States, but David Henry...

theater
Richard III at the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C.

The Folger Theatre has given us a  fine production of Shakespeare's play about the rise...

books
Ten Books for Conservatives (podcast)

From Accuracy in Media, in a podcast Don Irvine talks with Dr. Benjamin Wiker, author of 1...

culture101
George M. Cohan: America’s Cheerleader

July is a time for patriotism in the United States, and much very good music has been writ...

noteworthy
Mike Gallagher to Perform ‘Love Letters’ with Sally Struthers

On April 24 and 25, Mike Gallagher will be appearing at the Kentucky Repertory Theater in ...

commerce
Attend a Tea Party, Support the Arts

Bill Whittle is a clever, erudite and indefatigable proponent ofliberty and limited govern...

people
For the Hollywood Left, ‘Heterosexism’ Is the New Racism

“Heterosexism” is becoming the term of choice among Leftists dominating the Entertainm...

theater
The Politics of (Singing and) Dancing

The acclaimed suspense novelist, screenwriter, and essayist Andrew Klavan notes that a gro...

movies
‘Equalizer’ Star Woodward Played Exemplary Heroes

       The late Edward Woodward was an exemplary actor,...

theater
Culture Note: Silent Cal Speaks

  Who would have thought it? One of my favorite presidents, Calvin Coolidge, is ...

commerce
Anna Nicole Smith to Be Immmortalized in Opera

    The tastemaker who brought the world Jerry Springer: The Opera has...