“Words, words. They’re all we have to go on.” This may have been true for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as they navigated their role in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”; however, the Huntington Theatre Company’s ...

Tom Stoppard ’s 1966 meta-play, presented by Nu Sass Productions at the DC Arts Center, asks much more than it answers and keeps audiences laughing until the deadly end. Performed with a lively ...

Put the prefix "meta" before any noun or adjective, and your listener will inevitably roll their eyes in exhaustion. "Meta-fiction." "Meta-programming." "Meta-theatrical." These are terms thrown ...

Of all the existential zingers that pepper Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, this one, delivered to our two heroes/bit players by the sly and knowing Player (John Pribyl) is the ...

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“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all they are prepared to believe in” is a central proposition of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” but I certainly didn’t know what to expect when I ...

Alex Hurt as Rosencrantz and Jeremy Webb as Guildenstern in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" at the Huntington Theatre Company. (Courtesy T Charles Erickson) If everyone is the hero of his or her ...

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The Huntington Theatre is bringing Shakespeare’s Hamlet back, but this time with new title characters. Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead brings the duo to the front and center ...

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and ...