William Shakespeare News

Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown (Parade, 13, The Last Five Years, Songs for a New World) and Tony Award-winning stage and screen star Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls) and The Caucasian Rhythm Kings begin a special three-night concert engagement tonight at the Henry Street Settlement - Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand at Pitt). The concerts will also be filmed for future broadcast on PBS.

The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival inspires and delights audiences with its vigorously original interpretations of the great works of William Shakespeare and is lauded as one of the finest Festivals of its kind in the United States.

THE 16th ANNUAL LOWER EAST SIDE (LES) FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS brings together under one roof in just three days over 100 performing arts organizations, local and international celebrities, independent artists, poets, playwrights, musicians, puppeteers, film makers and many others - all of whom reside, work or have their roots in the culturally diverse, willfully anarchistic Lower East Side - for New York City's most diverse FREE 3-day festival, from Friday, May 27 through Sunday, May 29, at Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue, between E. 9th and 10th Sts.) in Manhattan. OBIE Award-winning actress Crystal Field is co-founder and Artistic Director of Theater for the New City.

Opening its 2011 season and its 80th birthday year, Westport Country Playhouse will stage comic master Christopher Durang's 'Beyond Therapy,' directed by David Kennedy, Playhouse associate artistic director, April 26 through May 14.

The Hartt School presents Henry V Thursday, April 28, through Saturday, April 30, at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, May 1, at 3:00 PM, in The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation Theater, Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford.

Cleverly written script…hilarious physical theatre…totally engaging. A standing ovation from the audience The Courier-Mail

U.S. Theater Premiere REIGEN ad lib- Performed by Dutch theater collective Dood Paard

Cleverly written script…hilarious physical theatre…totally engaging. A standing ovation from the audience The Courier-Mail

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is seeking volunteers to assist with ushering, concessions, and the Theatre's gift shop during the 2011 Season which begins in June.

Shakespeare Carolina is proud to announce their 2011 Season. The Company will open the year with John Clifford's "Ines De Castro" April 27th through May 1st at the Duke Energy Theatre at Spirit Square, Charlott

Tennessee Shakespeare Company, the Mid-South's professional classical theatre, returns to its outdoor roots with its multi-stage production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens this spring.

Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis announced the line-up today for The Public's 2011-2012 Season. The 56th Season will feature new works by Mike Daisey, Nathan Englander, David Henry Hwang, Richard Nelson, and Stew and Heidi Rodewald, as well as the premiere of FEBRUARY HOUSE, a new musical by Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley that is the first commission of The Public's Musical Theater Initiative.

Gingold Theatrical Group - which made history as the first company ever to present every play (including full-length works, one-acts and sketches) written by George Bernard Shaw - continued its sixth year of PROJECT SHAW with AN EVENING OF SHAW AND SHAKESPEARE on Monday, April 25 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan.

Opening its 2011 season and its 80th birthday year, Westport Country Playhouse will stage comic master Christopher Durang's "Beyond Therapy," directed by David Kennedy, Playhouse associate artistic director, April 26 through May 14.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), under the artistic direction of Diane Paulus, is pleased to announce the productions that will be part of the A.R.T.'s 2011/12 Season.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), under the artistic direction of Diane Paulus, is pleased to announce the productions that will be part of the A.R.T.'s 2011/12 Season.

New York Stage and Film (Johanna Pfaelzer, Artistic Director; Mark Linn-Baker, Max Mayer, Leslie Urdang, Producing Directors) and Vassar College (Ed Cheetham, Producing Director) have announced the full line-up of their 2011 Powerhouse Theater season, now entering its 27th year. The result of a unique collaboration between New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, the program consists of an eight-week residency on the Vassar campus (124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY) during which more than 200 professional artists and some 40 apprentices live and work together to create new theater works. The 2011 Main Stage season kicks off with Patricia Wettig's F2M (June 29 - July 10).

Gingold Theatrical Group -- which made history as the first company ever to present every play (including full-length works, one-acts and sketches) written by George Bernard Shaw -- continues its sixth year of PROJECT SHAW with AN EVENING OF SHAW AND SHAKESPEARE on Monday, April 25 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan.

Gingold Theatrical Group -- which made history as the first company ever to present every play (including full-length works, one-acts and sketches) written by George Bernard Shaw -- continues its sixth year of PROJECT SHAW with AN EVENING OF SHAW AND SHAKESPEARE on Monday, April 25 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan.

Frog & Peach Theatre Company (now in its seventeenth season), will present William Shakespeare's romantic comedy 'TWELFTH NIGHT,' directed by Lynnea Benson. It will be presented at The West End Theatre (the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew), 263 West 86th Street (between West End Avenue and Broadway). Performances will officially open on Sunday, April 24 at 3:00 PM. Performances will run thru Sunday, May 15.