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Todd Bartels as Florizel and Heather Wood as Perdita in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of The Winter’s Tale, directed by Rebecca Taichman. Photo by T. Charles Erickson

Notable Quotable: Heather Wood on Bonding with the Bard

June 26, 2013
"Don’t worry if you don’t understand the first ten minutes [of a Shakespeare play] I don’t understand the first ten minutes 90 percent of the time, unless I really, really know the play and I've worked on it. Study the character list, actually. I think that's very helpful. If you can really...
William Shakespeare / engraved by Benjamin Holl from the print by Houbraken. From Library of Congress collection

Did you know....? Happy Birthday William Shakespeare edition

April 12, 2013
April 23 marks the 449 th birthday of the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare. To celebrate, we’ve rounded up several little known facts about the "Bard of Avon." Think we missed a fanciful factoid? Add to the comments below. In Shakespeare’s famous words, “…some are born great, some...

Shakespeare's Poetry: Clues for an Actor

July 12, 2010
Washington, DC Shakespeare might have been born in April, but summer's certainly his season judging by the many plein air presentations of the Bard that pop up in the warm weather months. I still remember seeing Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff Goldblum in a Shakespeare in the Park production of...

Let's Get This (Shakespeare) Show on the Road

April 30, 2010
Washington, DC The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Pericles in Washington, DC, as part of the NEA's Shakespeare for a New Generation initiative. Photo by Richard Termine. The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Pericles in Washington, DC, as part of the NEA's Shakespeare...

On the Boards with the Bard

April 30, 2010
Washington, DC By Adam Green, Public Affairs Francesa Faridany as Rosalind and John Behlmann as Orlando in the Shakespeare Theatre's production of As You Like It . Photo by Scott Suchman, courtesy Shakespeare Theatre Last fall, the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, presented a stylized version...