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Merry Wives at the Folger Theatre Delights with Talented Acting, Engaging Humor

‘Merry Wives’ at the Folger Theatre Delights with Talented Acting, Engaging Humor

By Annah Otis February 20, 2020

Director Aaron Posner’s modern rendition of William Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” is a crowd-pleasing comedy with just as much relevance to modern audiences as to 16th-century ones....

Georgetown Department of Performing Arts | In The Woman Who Turned Into a Tree, the traditional Greek myth is adapted to look at the pervasive nature of our connected world.

‘The Woman Who Turned Into a Tree’ Tells Cautionary Tale

By Sarah Keisler September 27, 2019

Daphne (Julia Kwamya) wants to be “a girl with class.” This mantra seems relatively harmless, but in “The Woman Who Turned Into a Tree,” her fascination with how she is perceived by others is nothing...

COURTESY KATE CLARK (COL 21)

Kick Off Your Sunday Shoes at Mask and Bauble’s ‘Footloose’

By Meghan DeCourcey April 13, 2018

The Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society’s performance of “Footloose”encourages its audience members to kick off their Sunday shoes and enjoy the music. Tasked with reimagining the upbeat 1980s...

BLACK THEATRE ENSEMBLE

Black Theatre Ensemble’s ‘The Story’ Combines Racial Politics and the Quest for Success

By Eliza Phillips April 9, 2018

In 1981, Washington Post journalist Janet Cooke won a Pulitzer Prize for an article she wrote about an eight-year old heroin addict. After capturing the hearts of millions worldwide and sparking a...

FORDS THEATRE

Theater Review: ‘Jefferson’s Garden’ at Ford’s Theatre

By Maddy Forbess January 29, 2018

Ford’s Theatre’s historical significance as the place Abraham Lincoln was assassinated lends weight to the performance of “Jefferson’s Garden,” a show that explores the tensions between the...

Shakespeare Theatre Company

Theater Review: ‘Twelfth Night’

By Kathryn Baker December 6, 2017

Set in a modern airport terminal, the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s performance of the romantic comedy “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare takes the audience on a fantastical flight, encouraging...

Theater Review: ‘Fun Home’

By Rachel Linton May 2, 2017

Directed by Sam Gold and based on Alison Bechdel’s award-winning autobiographical graphic novel, Tony Award-winning musical “Fun Home” made its Washington, D.C. premiere April 18 at the National...

COURTESY LESLIE E. KOSSOFF

The Buzz About ‘In the Next Room, or the vibrator play’

By Kathryn Baker April 7, 2017

Although it may seem atypical to bring a show about vibrators to a world-renowned Jesuit institution, that is exactly what the Theater and Performance Studies Program has done in its latest performance,...

COURTESY MASK AND BAUBLE

Campus Theater: ‘Stupid F***ing Bird’

By Meena Raman April 7, 2017

From Georgetown’s oldest student theater group, the Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society, comes its final mainstage production of the spring semester: “Stupid F***ing Bird.” Described by the Society...

Celebrating Student Plays: DBMOAF

By Dani Guerrero February 24, 2017

In collaboration with Georgetown’s Department of Performing Arts, the Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society presents the Donn B. Murphy One Acts Festival. Celebrating its 31st edition, the festival took...

Theater Review: ‘As You Like It’

By Kathryn Baker February 10, 2017

Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, the Folger Theatre’s edgy rendition of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” draws the audience out of its seats and into the mysterious Forest of Arden — a place...

Theater Review: After Amnesia, the Search for Identity

By Justin Kotwicki November 18, 2016

The word “identity” is often used as a buzzword in the context of contemporary debates about race, gender and sexual orientation. While “identities” can often be used to bring people together,...

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