Lulu is bad news. Don't believe me? Just take a glance at the couch that resides immediately in front of front row, center, in Washington Shakespeare Company's production of this Nicholas Wright-penned mashed-up adaptation of two notorious Frank Wedekind plays. There you'll find the trail of broken hearts and broken bodies the seductress leaves in her wake, in the form of dead husbands — one per act of this bloody, bawdy play — forced to sit there and watch helplessly after she has heartlessly dispatched them. more ›

What Jay Hardee's performance as the disturbed teen Alan Strang may lack in authenticity, it makes up for in sheer gutsiness. Hardee is completely out there, whether he is writhing in agony or girlishly taunting his self-absorbed psychologist (Christopher Henley). It's spectacle, for sure, but it's riveting spectacle to watch. The same can be said for most of Washington Shakespeare Company's production of Equus, now being staged in Crystal City. Equus, to be frank, is... more ›

The nudity may surprise you. The masturbation scene could distract you. The casting might throw you. more ›