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Shakespeare once again dominated my reading schedule, and not just because I can read a play in an afternoon. For the record, this year’s pl...

It was a big year for my Shakespeare reading, only coincidentally because it was the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio...

Or, technically, read and re-read books. Mostly off my own shelf, but also borrowed and reviewed titles. Listed in chronological order of m...

Two shows within a week's time invite comparisons:  A Doll's House, Part 2  (DH2) at Round House (temporarily quartered at the Sha...

Back from yesterday's matinee performance of Much Ado About Nothing at Synetic Theater in Crystal City. This was the 11th of Synetic...

A last-minute decision to join the Shakespeare Explorers' Meetup group's planned weekend excursion to the Blackfriars Playhouse/Amer...

Back from Ordinary Days  last night at the Round House and will use this to catch up with one other previously unreported artistic experienc...

I can't take credit for "discovering" the Synetic Theater - it's been recommended to me, repeatedly, by my Shakespeare Ex...

Oh boy, another "catch up" post, you say? No, these productions really do have some things in common. Crown of Shadows , the new (...