Shakespeare really is a world without end, apparently; Arena Stage’s new production, Equivocation, an import from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, sets up camp in the Kreeger Theater from now through New Year’s Day. The political thriller, centered around the Gunpowder Plot, paints Shakespeare as propagandist for the crown; Silence of the Lambs‘ Anthony Heald tackles the Bard. (FULL STORY: Peter Marks, Washington Post)