Theater

Wilde Tamed?

John Simon · March 2, 2018 9:00 am

Red Alert Politics

Chapman University to present gender-bending version of ‘Othello’

Isaiah Denby · February 13, 2018 8:10 pm

Citing "whitewashing" and "cultural appropriation," a group of young social justice warriors insisted that only "a black or brown female student" would be an appropriate Esmerelda. (iStock photo)

Red Alert Politics

Play canceled after white student cast as main character

Angela Morabito · February 12, 2018 7:49 pm

The actorsâ union said in their case, the loss of the deductions swamps the predicted benefits of the reform. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)

Broadway actors protest GOP tax plan

Joel Gehrke · November 2, 2017 9:13 pm

Starlings gather in huge flocks to pass winter by roosting together. We're talking thousands upon thousands of birds all hunkered down in one place at one time. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

The crazy story behind Starlings, those annoying birds

J. Mark Powell · October 19, 2017 5:24 pm

‘Norma’-tivity

Nicholas Gallagher · October 6, 2017 8:00 am

Farewell, Great Comet, We Hardly Knew Ye

Farewell, Great Comet, We Hardly Knew Ye

Washington Examiner · September 1, 2017 6:44 pm

Suspenseful Silence

Colin Fleming · August 11, 2017 6:20 am

Social Justice ‘War and Peace’

Ethan Epstein · July 31, 2017 3:05 pm

Hail to the ‘King and I’

Ethan Epstein · July 24, 2017 3:35 pm

"Please join me in supporting Shakespeare in the Park. Stand for free speech," Moore tweeted. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Michael Moore donates to ‘Shakespeare in the Park’

Matthew Trunko · June 27, 2017 10:47 pm

The play has drawn a great deal of controversy over its portrayal of the assassination of Caesar, who is made to look like the president.(Joan Marcus/The Public Theater via AP)

Protester disrupts play that appears to depict Trump assassination

Daniel Chaitin · June 17, 2017 2:22 pm