William Shakespeare News

The American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) 2011-12 season opens with a new revival of the dazzling George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart 1930 comedy Once in a Lifetime, which has been called 'a delicious Hollywood send up' (The New York Times) and 'a tinseltown satire [with] bite' (Newsday).

The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University has announced the programming lineup for its second season, featuring inventive performances, innovative and classic films, and stimulating conversation with celebrated artists.

The final performance of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the second production in Trevor Nunn's year as Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal Haymarket, is on Saturday 20 August 2011, as previously announced.

Capital Classics celebrates its 20th Anniversary with Shakespeare's malevolent monarch.

Join us for the first comedy Shakespeare ever wrote. Watch and laugh as close friends Valentine and Proteus both pursue the Duke of Milan's beautiful daughter, Sylvia. See how Crab, 'the sourest-natured dog that lives', provides one of the first examples of the animal stealing the show. Don't miss this rarely produced comedy.

Now that we have completed Shakespeare's entire canon, we're starting over by producing The Comedies in the order in which they were written! Get on board right from the start with these shows, we'll have you rolling in the aisles all season!

The Theater Company of Hoboken (TTC) will be enjoying those 'Summer Nights' at Frank Sinatra Park in Hoboken as it presents The Music of GREASE. A co-presentation with Dawn Zimmer and the City of Hoboken, these FREE performances will be July 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31, 2011 - all at 7pm.

What better way to celebrate summer than the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, and two Little League coaches going head to head in what has to be the only baseball play to include Brigadoon, living in a van, and the fine art of equipment bag stuffing? Join the crowd in the bleachers at Chenango River Theatre for Rounding Third, a baseball comedy by Richard Dresser, based on his own experience coaching his son in Little League.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of its Outdoor Stage - the Theatre's enormously popular annual summer tradition of family theatre 'under-the-stars' - with the world's most popular comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. Performances end July 31st.

THE CELL and THE HIVE THEATRE COMPANY are pleased to announce the SUMMER OF LUST!, a repertory summer experience which explores the themes of marriage and power. It includes their gender-bender production of William Shakespeare?s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT?S DREAM, directed by Matthew A.J. Gregory and Terry Quinn?s riveting new BAD EVIDENCE, directed by Kira Simring. SUMMER OF LUST! will play a limited engagement at the cell (338 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011), closing Sunday, July 31.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced a full slate of musical productions, a developmental reading series and special events for their eighth annual festival. This year's Festival will begin September 26th and continue through October 16th.

In celebration of Tennessee Williams' centennial year, Westport Country Playhouse will stage a special performance by acclaimed actor Richard Thomas in 'A Distant Country Called Youth,' based on a collection of lively and evocative letters written by a young Tennessee Williams, on Monday, August 29, 7 p.m.

Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy will kick off her 21st Anniversary Season of her multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, with an unforgettable cabaret evening filled with song, humor, and fun on Wednesday, July 27th (7PM) at the intimate cabaret hot-spot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues).

11th Hour Theatre Company is kicking off its season with the return of one of their most popular productions ever.

From August 19TH, 2011 to September 4TH, 2011 Theater Works will Produce William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

In honor of its fiftieth anniversary season in 2011-12, Great Lakes Theater (GLT), Cleveland's professional classic company, will honor "Fifty Stars" - individuals and organizations whose contributions to the theater have shone the brightest over the company's five-decade history.

ARTFARM reboots SHAKESPEARE'S ARGUMENT for the company's 10th Anniversary.

For the first time under the 21-year leadership of Bonnie J. Monte, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present William Shakespeare's rarely produced work, Timon of Athens.