The Royal Shakespeare Company sure knows how to dress up a production. Whether it be looming sets, dramatic lighting effects, or gripping lead actors, the company adds a sense of gravitas to even the lesser of Shakespeare’s works. This is certainly the case for their commanding Coriolanus, now being staged at the Kennedy Center. Coriolanus isn’t the most layered of the Bard’s works – it has some interesting themes such as the danger of mob…

Well, they don’t call it Shakespeare in Washington for nothing. This month brings quite the selection of Bard-tastic choices. We’ve got Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare Theater (April 3), The As-You-Like-It-inspired She Stoops to Comedy at Woolly Mammoth (April 1), and The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Coriolanus at the Kennedy Center (April 13). Plus, Edward III just opened this week at Washington Shakespeare Company, and even Lord John Marbury’s in DC this weekend, doing the…

If you like your composers Russian, your theater traditional and your Shakespeare, well, everywhere, the Kennedy Center’s 2006/2007 season has much to please. As part of “Shakespeare In Washington,” the Bard shows up in lots of the Center’s theatre, dance and orchestral offerings, from a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Coriolanus to the Kirov Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet. The season also brings with it two new partnerships: Arlington’s Synetic Theater, which just had a hand…

Good news D.C. Unlike last weekend, we’ll only have to suffer through this rain today; Saturday will be dry and Sunday will be beautiful. Awesome. FRIDAY: >> We hear some big movie opened this week, with “lazer swords” and some dude wearing a black hat. What was it called again? Eh, who cares — especially when you can watch “Napoleon Dynamite” again on the big screen. The Landmark E St.’s Midnight Movies bring pretty much…