Articles Tagged With: Lansburgh Theatre

Waiting for Godot at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Reviews April 27, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

We are all born mad. Some remain so. But what is madness? The inevitable wait for that which will not come? The yearn of tomorrow knowing that it will never truly be tomorrow because tomorrow will always be tomorrow? Skipping Druid’s production of Waiting for Godot at Shakespeare Theatre Company this spring? That last one borders dangerously close on madness if not sheer delirium. Directed by Garry Hynes this classical reincarnation of Samuel Beckett’s darkly humorous and dreary drudgery of a drama finds reanimation and breaths of new life in this potent production presented by Druid.

Noura at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Reviews February 16, 2018 Spencer Nelson

In 1879 when Henrik Ibsen premiered his play A Doll’s House he probably didn’t imagine that today, nearly 139 year later, it would be the inspiration for a new work about a modern Iraqi-American family who welcome an Iraqi refugee into their home for Christmas. But that is exactly what has happened, Heather Raffo has brought Ibsen’s work to new life with her play Noura, now playing at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Lansburgh Theatre as part of the Women’s Voices in Theater Festival.

The Lover & The Collection at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Reviews October 4, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther

Just who is who and what is what? Who’s lying? Who’s telling the truth? Scandal, lovers, mistresses, and then some await eager audiences of Washington DC as Shakespeare Theatre Company opens the 2017/2018 season with a double-bill of Harold Pinter. Artistic Director Michael Kahn brings The Lover & The Collection together for an evening inside the darkly scandalous and peculiarly humorous world of Pinter’s somewhat dated characters. Overlooking the misogyny and general banality of the female character featured in each of these productions,

Review: Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Reviews September 20, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Men’s eyes were made to look and let them gaze upon the riveting new production of Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare Theatre Company. Directed by Alan Paul, this revitalized and somewhat modern approach to the Bard’s most woeful tragedy attends the fates gaily and with swift justice for both the poetic nature of the text and the emotional capacity of the plot. Perilously little can be ascribed in complaint, save for the missed opportunities to push the conceptualized vision on the whole in a slightly different direction,

Review: The Metromaniacs at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Reviews February 11, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

A call has been issued throughout Washington DC to all the dames and dandies

Grab your tickets, get your seats; don’t forget your drinks and candies

A troupe of actors, performers in tights, as you’ll read here on this page

Perform for you an evening’s comedy; they shall traipse across the stage.

Shakespeare Theatre Company, running David Ives’s new comic jewel

The Metromaniacs,