We love one particular national institution here in Washington, the Kennedy Center, and last evening we had a unique experience there. It was a genuinely odd production of "Measure for Measure" -- considered to be Shakespeare's only "other" play about justice and mercy ("Merchant of Venice" being the first ( Read more... )

Today Joanne and I spent the whole day at the "Page to Stage" Festival at Washington's always-wonderful Kennedy Center. It'll also be on tomorrow and Monday, with a vast calendar of offerings by over 60 smaller theater companies in our region. It's mainly new productions they will show in the coming season, sometimes simple script read-throughs by ( Read more... )

This is MY week to get wonderful complements from people whose work I praise -- first, Jon enjoying how I responded to his sexy ladies, and now a kind thank-you from a delicious LJer whose important review of a gender-related theater piece I liked --http://devifemme.livejournal.com/962991.html