William Shakespeare News

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.

Coming off of a record-setting anniversary season, where more patrons attended the Company's indoor shows than in any other year, Seattle Shakespeare Company announces plans for the Theatre's 2011-2012 season.

Calling all would-be Romeos and Juliets to Centennial Park April 22 for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival's celebration of William Shakespeare's 447th birthday.

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.

In an effort to make theater more accessible for early-career and younger patrons, Westport Country Playhouse is introducing a $25 ticket price for patrons aged 35 and under for all Friday evening performances during its 2011 season.

Edward Hall, artistic director of Propeller theatre company, has announced dates for a tour of the company's pocket-sized production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, entitled Pocket Comedy.

Frog & Peach Theatre Company (now in its seventeenth season), will present William Shakespeare's romantic comedy 'TWELFTH NIGHT,' directed by Lynnea Benson.

Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company presents An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf By Michael Hollinger

The American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Program and Young Conservatory (YC) present Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winner Horton Foote's The Widow Claire and Courtship, two one-act plays from his beloved nine-play epic, The Orphans' Home Cycle

Desperate times call for drastic measures. Theatricum Botanicum's 2011 Summer Repertory Season treats us to the most notorious characters everyone loves to hate.

Hart House Theatre, the University of Toronto's Performing Arts Leader Since 1919, is proud to announce its 2011/2012 season.

Nashville Children's Theatre (NCT) will perform Robin Goodfellow on Saturday, May 7th at 11 am specifically for families of children with special needs.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has proclaimed William Shakespeare's 447th birthday on April 23, 2011, Talk Like Shakespeare Day in the State of Illinois-'a day on which all citizens are encouraged to express their inner thespian, incorporating Shakespearean lines into everyday conversation.'

Transport Group Theatre Company, the winner of a special Drama Desk Award and two OBIE Awards, has announced casting and dates for the New York premiere of Lysistrata Jones, a new musical with a book by Douglas Carter Beane; music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn; directed and choreographed by Dan Knechtges.