Among the casualties as Stoppard’s half-century saga unspools at Shakespeare Theatre Company: much of the Merz family, revealed in a merry opening tableau as the enviably cosmopolitan occupants ...

The Victoria Theatre, produced by Oscar Hammerstein I, was built in 1899. Legendary performers such as Houdini, Bert Williams, W.C. Fields, the Keatons, Charlie Chaplin, the Seven Little Foys ...