As You Like It

All the Folger’s a Classroom: Teacher Weekend Intensive on Shakespeare’s Comedies

Mar 13 – Mar 14

Essential for high school and middle school English teachers who regularly teach Shakespeare but want to deepen their understanding of comedic technique and classroom engagement strategies. Skip this if you're looking for entertainment; attend if you're responsible for making *Much Ado About Nothing* come alive for teenagers.

An English Garden

May 8 – May 10

If you're drawn to early music but find traditional concerts static, this literary-musical hybrid offers genuine novelty. It's ideal for anyone curious about how Elizabethans actually experienced their gardens—neither a botanical lecture nor a music recital, but something more textured. Skip it if you prefer straightforward narrative or need a concert that prioritizes virtuosic display.

As You Like It: Finding Joy, Freedom, and Voice

This is essential for high school and middle school English teachers who want to deepen their own relationship with Shakespeare before bringing it to students. If you're a teacher who's exhausted by the standard lecture-and-worksheet approach and hungry for fresh ways to unlock joy in literature, this gives you both the experience and the strategies to take back to your classroom.

The World to Come

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company · Feb 3 – Mar 1

This is for audiences who prize character work and understated emotional truth over plot mechanics. If you're drawn to plays about overlooked populations and find beauty in small moments, you'll connect here. Skip this if you need broad comedy or dramatic fireworks—the rewards are in observation and nuance.

Safety Not Guaranteed

Signature Theatre · Mar 3 – Apr 12

If you love character-driven comedies with genuine emotional stakes and don't mind theatrical logic that favors the heart over plausibility, this lands squarely in your wheelhouse. This isn't for audiences needing everything explained or characters they can easily pin down—it requires a willingness to meet the material's gentle weirdness halfway.

Sasha Velour's TRAVESTY

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company · Mar 24 – Apr 12

This is essential viewing if you're interested in how drag functions as political and artistic practice beyond nightclub settings. It rewards viewers who appreciate ambitious formal experimentation and aren't looking for conventional plot resolution. If you need your theater to be intimate and psychologically realistic, this probably isn't your show—but if you crave visual boldness and ideas that linger after the curtain falls, Velour's work at Woolly Mammoth will justify the trip to Penn Quarter.