The DC Traveler » DC-Shakespeare-Festival http://www.thedctraveler.com A Washington DC insider's travel guide that's full of area information for both tourists and residents. Covers area attractions, activities, events, nightlife, memorials and monuments, historic sites, museums, the Smithsonian... Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:17:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The DC Shakesepeare Festival and Someone Hates Hamlet? http://www.thedctraveler.com/2007/01/the-dc-shakesepeare-festival-and-someone-hates-hamlet/ http://www.thedctraveler.com/2007/01/the-dc-shakesepeare-festival-and-someone-hates-hamlet/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:29:24 +0000 http://www.thedctraveler.com/the-dc-shakesepeare-festival-and-someone-hates-hamlet/ Post from: The DC Traveler

]]> William ShakespeareThe DC Shakespeare Festival is in full swing and dozens of the area theaters, museums and concert halls are putting on productions of Shakespeare’s works and other Bard related productions.

One caught my eye and raises the question… To hate or not to hate, that is the question — 

I Hate Hamlet by Paul Rudnick is a story about a successful but recently unemployed actor, Andrew Rally, who moves from LA to New York City and rents an old, gothic apartment that was the home of the most famous actor to ever play Hamlet, John Barrymore.  As his TV career stalls, he is offered and reluctantly takes the leading role in a production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet…the only problem, he HATES Hamlet.

His problems multiple when Barrymore’s drunken ghost appears in full costume in his apartment.  His ghostly roommate begins to dispenses advice on Shakespearean acting, as well as life and love as the two battle over women, success, and how to play or overplay (“I do not overact. I simply possess the emotional resources of ten men”) the role of Hamlet.

The Vienna Theater Company is a community theater based in suburban Vienna, VA, about 18 miles from the National Mall.  

I Hate Hamlet
Vienna Theatre Company
120 Cherry Street
Vienna, VA 22180
703-255-6360

Dates – Friday and Saturday evenings through January 27th – 8:00 p.m.

Tickets – $9.00 and $8.00 for seniors and students – e-mail for reservation, pay at the box office at least 15 minutes before the performance.

Nearest Metro subway station – Vienna/Fairfax/GMU – Orange line, then a 15-minute bus – a taxi from the Metro is probably best. Taxis are generaly waiting at the Metro station.

Parking is available.
__________________________________________________________

Post from: The DC Traveler

]]> http://www.thedctraveler.com/2007/01/the-dc-shakesepeare-festival-and-someone-hates-hamlet/feed/ 1 Shakespeare and All That Jazz – Cleo Laine http://www.thedctraveler.com/2007/01/shakespeare-and-all-that-jazz-cleo-laine/ http://www.thedctraveler.com/2007/01/shakespeare-and-all-that-jazz-cleo-laine/#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:48:41 +0000 http://www.thedctraveler.com/shakespeare-and-all-that-jazz-cleo-laine/ Post from: The DC Traveler

]]> William Shakespeare portraitAs part of the ultimate citywide Shakespeare Festival running from January through June, venues across Washington DC will be presenting all kinds of Shakespearian events, including music, dance, plays, film, art and more.  With over 20 classic retellings of Will’s most notable plays such as Hamlet and King Lear to more avant-garde or “unique” interpretations of the Bard’s works, there’s bound to be something for everyone. Recognized as one of the Queens of Jazz, Britain’s singing sensation Dame Cleo Laine will bring her rich, smoky jazz vocals mixed with interpretive scat rhythms to the Kennedy Center as part of the city’s Shakespeare Festival. She’ll be singing selections from her DownBeat five-star winning recording of Shakespeare and All That Jazz. One can also suspect shell perform a few great jazz standards as well. With close to 100 albums and recording spanning her 50-year career, she is the only performer to be nominated for Grammys in the Female Jazz, Popular, and Classical categories. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Concert Hall 2700 F Street, NW Washington DC. 20566 Date Saturday, 2/18 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets $20.00 – $65.00 Nearest Metro subway station Foggy Bottom/George Washington University station (23rd and I St.) – Blue and Orange lines – then a 3-block walk. There is also a free Kennedy Center shuttle that runs every 15 minutes Monday – Friday from 9:45 a.m.- Midnight, Saturdays 10:00 a.m.- Midnight, and from Noon – Midnight on Sundays. Parking Available at the Kennedy Center for $15.00.

 Shakespeare & All That Jazz   You Can Sing If You Want to   The Very Best of Cleo Laine: 34 Classic Hits __________________________________________________________

Post from: The DC Traveler

]]> http://www.thedctraveler.com/2007/01/shakespeare-and-all-that-jazz-cleo-laine/feed/ 0