We all know the full moon can be a beautiful sight at night, but have you ever thought of making the moon your dance partner? In Rorschach Theater’s lovely, lyrical production of Jose Rivera’s References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, the cripplingly lonely Gabriela (Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey) does that and more, coming perilously close to making the moon her lover while her Army husband Benito (Andrew Price) is away. It’s hard to blame her, when…

If you’re going to stage a free reading of Twelfth Night, having it January 6 to kick off the city’s “Shakespeare in Washington” festival counts as pretty good timing. Plus, it has Balki. The event will take place at the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall at 6 p.m. tomorrow, and will star Bronson Pinchot, Veanne Cox, Jennifer Dundas, as well as a number of our favorite D.C. actors, like Will Gartshore, Scott McCormick and Regina Aquino….

There are those of us who fall into the category of people who believe that any movie or play with a swordfight is automatically worth watching. Even if you don’t fall into that category, Rorschach Theatre’s masterful production of Fair Ladies At A Game Of Poem Cards has plenty of other pleasures to offer. But those swordfights! Fair Ladies mostly revolves around the tale of two samurai who fall for some off-limits ladies-in-waiting to…

We’ve all sat around debating the age-old conundrum, “Did William Shakespeare really write all those plays?” All right, maybe that’s only the stuffy English grad students among us. Rorschach Theatre’s production of The Beard Of Avon offers its own answer to the heated question, but the results prove much more than an academic exercise — instead, it gives us a delightful romp through the lives of the usual suspects in the Shakespeare controversy, from Sir…