Taffety Punk has taken Shakespeare’s shipwrecked rom-com and plopped all the love insanity, mistaken identity, cross-dressing, and buffoonery into a kind of prom-decoration fishbowl. Perfect.

With all the lush romanticism going on over at Shakespeare Theater’s Harman Center, you’d think it were Valentine’s Day, not the Christmas season. Director Rebecca Bayla Taichman’s production of Twelfth Night is one big over-the-top ode to love, and the result is delightful rather than saccharine. The set’s backdrop is all dramatic, supersized roses, and petals cascade from the ceiling each time a character becomes lovestruck (an effect that initially seems schmaltzy, but is later…

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….