If you were hoping to catch the latest production of the Washington Shakespeare Company time is running out. Their engagement of “The Tempest” at the Clark Street Playhouse” ends Sept. 5.
Although the Washington City Paper called the production (in print only) ” … often pretty, occasionally moving, alternately intriguing and infuriating … It is, to say the least, rather uneven,” DCist enjoys a little Shakespeare now and again.
It might also help to keep in mind some think the play was inspired by information filtering back to England in the late 1500’s from England’s first attempt to colonize the “new world” – Sir Walter Raleigh’s famous “lost colony” on Roanoke Island in North Carolina.
UPDATE: Shakespeare fans should also note a production of Hamlet Macbeth opens at the Shakespeare Theater at 450 Seventh St. N.W. on August 31 and will be showing through October 24. ($12.75-$68) (Sorry for the confusion!)
