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With NextStop’s Richard we have a fresh way to widen our horizons and explore Shakespeare in a new way; if we are game for it. Take a chance and see for yourself.

La señorita de Tacna is about a playwright struggling to write a play. Neither the play nor the playwright is notably successful.

Take this opportunity to see Richard III in the unexpected setting of the Folger Theatre in the round. It has an intimacy to it. Words are not lost. Meanings easily conveyed.

Most nostalgia exercises don’t benefit from the dark wit and satirical edge of Vidal, whose palpable delight in skewering people and institutions, along with several strong performances from the Keegan company, keep life in the old script yet.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Earnest meets many of the hurdles, though it takes a bit of time to warm up to them.

We are fortunate to have Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song cast a light on a long winter night’s darkness.

Execution at a high level of the acting, musical, movement, and technical aspects of a production is expected from an A-level theater company like LTA, and this production does not disappoint.

Overall, The Ballad of the Red Knight is one for those who don’t take things too seriously in their appreciation of fantasy adventures and enjoy youthful insouciance.

Clearly This does not have anything like universal appeal. But it can give a certain generational cohort the encouraging feeling that their preoccupations matter.

Reston Community Players justifies its reputation as a top-notch company with this production, succeeding brilliantly in meeting the musical, dramatic, and technical demands of Les Miserables.