This post is brought to you by Folger Theatre. Rosencrantz an Guildenstern Are Dead is now playing at Folger Theatre! In a world where heads always wins and pirates can happen to anyone, this inventive, existentialist tragicomedy thrusts two of Shakespeare’s most incidental characters into the limelight. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been summoned to Elsinore by the king. Their purpose: to glean what afflicts Hamlet. The intrepid, if somewhat bewildered, travelers make their journey, meeting…

The D.C. theater scene is back to Shakespearean business as usual.