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.

Somebody really loves Bill. As philliefan99’s picture makes abundantly clear, some lovestruck individual took the time to declare his or her love for Bill in the fleeting medium of a snowbank. But is there a contradictory message to declaring one’s love in the snow? Is love recorded by this ephemeral expression truly love, or merely a passing infatuation that will melt away (hopefully before March)? There’s only one person who can say with any…

> > If we know you, the DCist reader, you are no doubt feverishly caught up in DC’s celebration of the life and works of William Shakespeare. Feel like delving deeper? Get on board with Wordfest’s Shakespeare Reading Group at Chapters one week from today at 6pm, and get a guided tour of Richard III from University of Connecticut Professor Emeritus Arnold Orza. If you ask us, Richard got mad swift-boated by the Bard, but,…

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…