William Shakespeare News

Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC), led by Producing Artistic Director Dan McCleary, begins its fourth season, Brave New World.

Free Shakespeare! and Optum Nurses for a Cure, a registered team with the Centerville chapter of Relay for Life, presents Shakespeare for Life, a marathon relay reading of the Bard's works, starting at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, and running 24 hours through 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at the Blue Sky Gallery, 33 N. Main St., in downtown Dayton.

The Indiana University Department of Theatre and Drama in the College of Arts and Sciences 2011-2012 season begins at the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center.

Anglophiles and Broadway babies alike rejoice at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's 2011-12 Season.

Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre is hosting a benefit screening of Julie Taymor's theatrical film version of The Tempest, and will include an introduction and reception with the film's producer. The film stars Helen Mirren as a cross-gendered Prospera, alongside an all-star cast including Djimon Hounsou, Alan Cummings, David Strathairn, Chris Cooper, Russell Brand, Reeve Carney (currently in Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark on Broadway) and Alfred Molina.

The Road to NYMF is a video blog series that follows the show's journey from getting their musical up on their feet and to the stag. From interviews to rehearsals to struggles and times full of joy, discover what it takes to put on a musical.

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, launches its milestone 2011-12 Season and 20th Anniversary in its permanent new home, a 33,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art venue in Pasadena, with a sizzling original treatment of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S beloved comedy TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL, which runs Saturday, October 29 to Friday, December 16, 2011 (previews begin Saturday, October 22). A 'Pay What You Can' date, which allows patrons to purchase tickets for what they can afford, is Thursday, October 27.

Lantern Theater Company opens its 2011/12 season with the Philadelphia premiere of David Ives' award-winning New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656.

The Glass Menagerie holds in its shadowed fragility the stamina of success.' - So reads legendary theatre critic Claudia Cassidy's first sentence from the 'most famous review in Chicago theater history' in the Chicago Tribune on December 27, 1944.

The Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) celebrates 50 years of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Connecticut with an exciting 2011-2012 Season commemorating the human journey and coming home.

Asolo Repertory Theatre presents an FSU/Asolo Conservatory production of the New Stages project HAMLET REDUX, a 60 minute adaptation from the play by William Shakespeare.

Celebrating its 18th anniversary season in 2011/12, Lantern Theater Company announces a slate of plays and events that illustrate the company's ongoing commitment to celebrating the best in classic and contemporary playwriting.

The Road to NYMF is a video blog series that follows the show's journey from getting their musical up on their feet and to the stag. From interviews to rehearsals to struggles and times full of joy, discover what it takes to put on a musical.

Quintessence Theatre Group launches its second season with two classic comedies: Carlo Goldoni's THE VENETIAN TWINS, in a translation by Ranjit Bolt, and William Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, to be presented in repertory and directed by Alexander Burns.

Bick Goss and Frank Evans, Producing Artistic Directors of Musical Mondays Theater Lab, Inc, and Stephen Hanks, MMTL Board President, have announced that the first new musical preview of their 2011-2012 season (the organization's 13th year of presenting new musicals) will be 'How to Marry a Divorced Man,' by Bryan D. Leys and Clare Cooper, based on best-selling novel How to Marry a Divorced Man by Leslie Fram.

With the musical hit Beehive: The '60s Musical Sensation bringing down the house through October 15, the Roxy Regional Theatre in Clarksville has launched its 29th season, replete with classics, musicals and regional premieres.

Cabaret performer Jamie deRoy hosts two nights of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, today & Wednesday, October 5th (7PM) at the intimate cabaret hot-spot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues).

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA), a professional theater and arts education nonprofit organization that builds communities around the appreciation and production of Shakespeare, will present blockbuster film director Roland Emmerich and entertainment attorney and author Bert Fields with the Crystal Quill Award for their contributions to the Shakespeare authorship debate.