When you look at what has gone into Shakespeare Theatre Company's sure-handed revival of Congreve's 1700 comedy "The Way of the World," you come to a deeper understanding of why actors go through what they go through. It turns out little of the hard work is for celebrity, or the (occasional) paycheck, or even for art. No, it's for the clothes. The great Broadway costume designer Jane Greenwood has been recruited as couturire to the dandies and dowagers of this satire on vows, contracts and avarice, and quite wonderfully, what emerges from her ... (more)