Articles Tagged With: Katherine Leiden

Hart Wood (left) as Banquo and Matt Bannister (right) as Macbeth in Macbeth as Silver Spring Stage đź“· Mikail Faalasli

Macbeth at Silver Spring Stage

The instruments of darkness tell us truths. And the most delicious truth, buried deep in a centuries’ old Shakespeare is the one about the tyrant— the great builder of ballrooms that nobody asked for— buried in that delectable speech of knocking with the castaway character of the Porter. But let’s rewind a little, despite knowing that history repeats itself. Not a kingdom for a horse, not once more into the breech, but rather Burnham wood on the march to Dunsinane.

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Justin Oratokhari (left) as Christopher and Yael Schoenbaum (right) as Pegeen in The Playboy of the Western World at Silver Spring Stage đź“· Freckled Fox Photography

The Playboy of the Western World- a new version at Silver Spring Stage

As many a bleak day lay ahead, we have to remember what’s good about this part of the world. There’s information and things work. The information: Silver Spring Stage is producing a new version of John Millington Synge’s Playboy of the Western World (by Bisi Adigun & Roddy Doyle) and it’s now appearing on their stage as the first show of 2025. And it works. Directed by Seth Ghitelman, this quirky but dark comedy of incidental errors and tall tales puts a refreshing spin on the way we look at outsiders and how we value their stories.

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