theater
“As You Like It” at the Folger Library

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

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
Pericles at the Folger Library

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

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...

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...

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‘Romeo & Julian’ Idiocy Exemplifies Left’s Hatred of Civilization

     Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet is being performed in an &q...

movies
“The Curse of the Golden Flower” and Two Ideas of Tragedy

The Curse of the Golden Flower, Zhang Yimou's latest film to be released in America, is a ...