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Washington, D.C.: Marlowe, Marlowe everywhere: Avery Brooks, in chariot, and the cast of Marlowe's Tamburlaine at Shakespeare Theatre Company.(FRONT & CENTER)(Theater review)(Brief article)

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From: American Theatre
Date: 20071201
Author:Pressley, Nelson

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ELBOWS THE BARD ASIDE as Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company opens its new $89-million Sidney Harman Hall with a brawny rep of Tamburlaine and Edward II (through Jan. 6). "It's a young man's play," artistic director Michael Kahn says of the two-part Tamburlaine, which he is adapting and directing. "Marlowe felt he could do anything on stage. And it seems like the perfect piece to inaugurate this space that we don't know yet."

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Kahn's production features Avery Brooks as the titular conqueror. Design-wise, the production ...

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