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King Lear Smashes All STC Sales Records

King Lear Smashes All STC Sales Records

King Lear Shakespeare Theatre Company Jordan Wright March 5, 2023 Special to The Zebra

Patrick Page in King Lear (Photo/DJ Corey Photography)

As a cautionary tale King Lear offers up lessons so dark, so full of evil premonition and so dangerously dire, one might […]

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare Theatre Company Jordan Wright March 29, 2022

Held in the recently rebranded The Michael R. Klein Theatre at the Lansburgh, Director and Obie Award-winner, Arin Arbus’s modernist vision of The Merchant of Venice is an exercise in portraying Shylock as a sympathetic character and his Venetian enemies […]

Timon of Athens ~ Shakespeare Theatre Company

Jordan Wright February 26, 2020

You’d think by now Shakespeare’s plays would have taught society a few basic life lessons. Be nice, don’t let your ego get the better of you, love madly, and don’t trust a drunk. Take Timon of Athens – a wealthy aristocrat whose “friends” (and I use that word loosely) […]

Antony and Cleopatra ~ Folger Theatre

Jordan Wright October 19, 2017 Special to The Alexandria Times

A moment of flirtatious play between Mark Antony (Cody Nickell) and his Cleopatra (Shirine Babb). Photo by Teresa Wood.

“Kingdoms are clay,” warns Antony to his beloved Cleopatra in the opening scene of Antony and Cleopatra. Even the Soothsayer foretells their downfall and […]