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Jordan Wright May 8, 2019
It’s been many moons since I was immersed in Greek mythology and the travails of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who lived together in marital discord in what the prophetess Cassandra called, “the house of spite”. The tragedy of their lives is a frightfully gruesome allegory from Aeschylus’s original trilogy written […]
Jordan Wright December 14, 2018
The curiously clever and titillating thread that runs through David Ives’ hilarious trio of comedies is a pair of red silk panties that keeps turning up in the oddest places. If that doesn’t make you sit up and beg to know more, I don’t know what will.
Ives […]
Jordan Wright January 24, 2018
Avery Glymph as Marcellus, Michael Urie as Hamlet and Federico Rodriguez as Horatio in Hamlet ~ Photo by Scott Suchman.
Michael Kahn’s swan song in his final season as Artistic Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company will prove to be a lasting memory of his herculean efforts […]
Jordan Wright October 7, 2017
Lisa Dawn as Sarah and Patrick Kennedy as Richard ~Photo credit Carol Rosegg
The Lover opens a door onto a middle class couple conversing in their mid-century modern living room. Richard (Patrick Kennedy) and Sarah (Lisa Dwan) have been married ten years. Over martinis they discuss how […]
Jordan Wright June 8, 2017
Cody Nickell as Philinte in The School for Lies by Scott Suchman
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of David Ives’ genius adaption of The School for Lies opens with an announcement by Philinte (Cody Nickell), a secret transvestite with a fondness for blue satin gowns. It advises us […]
Jordan Wright May 9, 2017
The cast of Macbeth. Photo credit Scott Suchman
Refugees fleeing from Aleppo, Syria is not the first thing that comes to mind when pondering Macbeth, but under the direction of Liesl Tommy it serves as the backdrop for this exciting, new interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy about […]
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