Tonight I saw the first play of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2010-2011 season, All’s Well That Ends Well. The cast included well know actress Marsha Mason. It was a very nice production. It also included baritone voiced British actor Paxton Whitehead, who I recognized from TV shows like Frazier, who was very good. The staging was simple, but beautiful as usual. The background was a cloudy sunset panorama painting that was changed with lighting. Various staging elements were lowered from above to change scenes, but it had a very open and spacious feeling.
The play was well done, and ended on a emotional high. The lead actress was good and quite moving. Overall I don’t love the play as it has a quality woman working hard to pin down a husband of higher station who she’s obtained, but who doesn’t ever seem worthy of her interest. But I guess that’s probably closer to real life than the ideal. All in all another very enjoyable evening of Shakespeare in DC.