The first official week of the season for the new, reimagined Duke Theatre begins next Wednesday, July 16, with performances by Andrew Schneider, and both this summer and the future look very bright indeed for this jewel of a theater.
Considering the dismal lack of opportunity available to women in her time, Aphra Behn made a stubborn, and possibly wrong-headed decision: “I’ll be a playwright…. I’ll earn my own bread or go hungry.”
“John” is unlike anything I have ever seen before, and that's really saying something considering all that I've seen in my long theater-attending lifetime.