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Jesse Buckley (center) would like to thank the Academy in advance. (Agata Grzybowska / Focus Features)
I hope I’m not being obstinate in my Washington City Paper review of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s lyrical adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel. I first read about the brief life of Hamnet Shakespeare in an issue of The Sandman by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess, published in 1990, decades before Gaiman was unmasked as a predator.
Bradley Gibson plays three generations of men in the Family Plique in Freemont Ave. (Marc J. Franklin)
My Washington City Paper review of Freemont Ave., a multi-generational world premiere from playwright Reggie D. White at Arena Stage, is here.
Danny Gavigan and Bligh Voth. (Christopher Mueller)
Strategic Love Play, an enigmatic one-act two-hander from Mancunian playwright Mriam Battye, has had a few of the Britishisms combed out of its since its debut in 2023 but is otherwise intact. My Washington Post review of Signature Theatre’s regional premiere is here.
Jacob Ming-Trent and the cast of Merry Wives at Shakespeare Theatre Company. (Teresa Castracane)
My Washington City Paper review of the STC revival of Jocelyn Bioh’s 2021 Merry Wives of Windsor update Merry Wives is here.
Jalisa Williams and Awa Sal Secka play reimagined versions of Viola and Olivia, respectively, in a riff on Twelfth Night set in the Cotton Club in 1930s Harlem. (Christopher Mueller)
I generally don’t care for jukebox musicals, but Twelfth Night is my favorite Shakespeare, and adding 22 Duke Ellington compositions don’t hurt it any. My Washington Post review of Signature Theatre’s Play On! is here.
Rebecca S’manga Frank and Nick Westrate create a monster. (DJ Corey Photography)
At Shakespeare Theatre Company, Emily Burns updates Mary Shelley’s 200-year-old monster mash for the tech oligarch age. My Washington City Paper review is here.
Kyle Beltran and Nic Ashe in We Are Gathered, a play that accompanies their characters’ fictional marriage with real ones. (T Charles Erickson)
I spent a beautifuly day with Jean Yoder and Rhys Price, who got married on stage in the finale of a performance of Arena Stage’s We Are Gathered. My Washington Post feature about their wedding day is here.
Ben Ahlers as John Wilkes Booth in Baltimore. (J. Fannon Photography)
My Washington Post review of Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner’s world-premiere play John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only! is here. Read it if you dare, you sockdologizing old man-trap!
