The company’s Free For All staging is given a well-executed, modern gloss that highlights the timelessness and relevance of a familiar tragedy.

While its spectacle sometimes doesn’t leave it room to breathe, the elements bring to life the mysticism at the heart of the play.

Shakespeare Theater announced today that its annual “Free For All.” a no-charge outdoor restaging of one of the company’s productions, will no longer be held at Carter Barron Amphitheater. Starting in 2009, the event will now be at the company’s impressive new Sidney Harman Hall. Shakespeare Theater’s press release said the move will allow them to hold 22 free shows rather than 10, avoid weather related cancellations, make the event more Metro accessible and provide…

Sure, with Folger Theater, two Shakespeare Theaters, and Washington Shakespeare Company all alive and kicking in D.C. (not to mention Synetic’s silent Shakespeare productions), it’s not exactly hard to get your Bard fix in this city. But what do all those companies have in common? You have to pay for them. That’s what’s so awesome about the Shakespeare Free For All at Carter Barron Amphitheatre, which begins tonight and ends June 1: you don’t have…