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A Powerful Cast Heads the Heart-Stirring Ragtime at Signature Theatre

A Powerful Cast Heads the Heart-Stirring Ragtime at Signature Theatre

Ragtime Signature Theatre Jordan Wright November 6, 2023 Special to The Zebra

Bobby Smith (Tateh), Emerson Holt Lacayo (The Little Girl) and the cast of Ragtime at Signature Theatre (Photo by Daniel Rader)

Thirty-three performers make up […]

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 Merry Wives of Windsor ~ Folger Shakespeare Theatre

Jordan Wright January 23, 2020

For his staging of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Director Aaron Posner adapts this delectable comedy about sexual jealousy to the 20th C… specifically the burgeoning hippie styles and Mod culture of 1972. It’s the perfect imaginary moment. The Women’s Liberation movement was in full swing and the times […]

Oslo ~ Round House Theatre ~ At the Lansburgh Theatre

Jordan Wright April 30, 2019

It’s a treat to have Bethesda-based Round House Theater present in DC’s Lansburgh Theatre. Ongoing renovations of Round House are scheduled to be completed in mid-September in time to kick off their fall season. An even better treat was the chance to see this exciting production of J. T. […]

Richard III ~ Shakespeare Theatre Company

Jordan Wright February 15, 2019

Richard, bloody Richard the Third. Thirteen murders for a single crown. The Grim Reaper visits this drama so frequently it’s hard to keep count. Staged in what appears to be a prison somewhere in, oh well, pick somewhere obscure, let’s say Alabama circa 1920’s, where concrete walls and hidden […]

Born Yesterday ~ Ford’s Theatre

Jordan WrightSeptember 27, 2018

“The whole damn history of the world is the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish,” pronounces Ed Devery, Harry Brock’s outlier attorney. It was this line from Born Yesterday that put playwright Garson Kanin square in the sights of Senator Joe McCarthy during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. Described […]