William Shakespeare News

The Shakespeare Theatre Company, recipient of the 2012 Regional Theatre Tony Award, kicks off its holiday season with William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Director Ethan McSweeny (Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice) takes a fresh approach to this well-loved play filled with magic and wonder. The production runs at STC's Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW) from tonight, November 15-December 30, 2012.

Sell a Door Theatre Company launches its 2013 season with a UK Tour of William Shakespeare's most renowned comedy A Midsummer Nights Dream.

With the lineup for its 56th annual season the Colorado Shakespeare Festival will return to a classic formula requested by many of its fans.

Join celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy when she hosts an evening of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, on Wednesday, November 28th (7PM) at Manhattan's cabaret hot-spot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues).

Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights resident professional theater company continues its outreach to the Brooklyn community with a FREE reading of a trimmed version of William Shakespeare's "HAMLET" featuring professional actors from the company, today, November 10th at 1:30pm, in the first floor theater room at the Brooklyn Heights branch of the NY Public Library.

Simon Russell Beale stars in a modern dress production of Shakespeare's strange fable of conspicuous consumption, debt and ruin in TIMON OF ATHENS.

The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program presents William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, running Nov. 10 - Nov. 18 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Opening night is Nov. 10 at 8:00 p.m. Directed by Ray Chambers, tickets to Measure for Measure can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the Box Office. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, November 29 - December 9 in the Nafe Katter Theatre, Storrs. For tickets and information, call 860-486-2113 and visit www.crt.uconn.edu.

The play that had London theatre-goers in stitches for more than 15 years, No Sex Please, We're British, opens at the Contra Costa Civic Theatre tonight, November 9. Director Dennis Markam and local actors will present this fast-paced comedy with precision and flair.

Michigan State University continues its 2012-2013 season with William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Hypocrisy and hysteria collide in this satire of religion and duty. Often referred to as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays' and definitely one of the darkest comedies in the canon, it provides a compelling exploration of ethics and morality and explores the way we confuse lust and love, goodness and self-righteousness.

The Classical Theatre of Harlem kicks off their 13th season in a groundbreaking co-production with The Public Theater and National Black Theatre of DETROIT '67. The UPTOWN MEETS DOWNTOWN kick-off reception will be held tonight, November 9, 2012, at 7:00 pm at the National Black Theater.

The University of Maryland's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies crossed continents, oceans and 12 time zones with a groundbreaking bi-lingual co-production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Created in collaboration with the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, the production was presented at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center September 27-30, 2012. Check out photos below and read an insider's perspective on designing this revolutionary production!

Those who missed the wildly successful 3-week run of Shakespeare Orange County's production of Much Ado About Nothing this past August will get one more chance when Phantom Projects brings back the original creative team to re-mount their production of William Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. The one-day-only performance features a 10AM and 7pm performance tonight, November 8th at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

Kicking off subscriptions for its 29th Season, Austin Shakespeare announces Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice at the Long Center's intimate Rollins Theater tonight, Nov. 7-25. The professional (Actors' Equity) company brings back award-winning actress Liz Beckham now as the smart, delightful "Elizabeth Bennet." Beckham recently won the Austin Critics Table award Best Actor for the company's production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia last spring.

This is the last weekend of performance of THE TEMPEST, by William Shakespeare, the current production of The Shakespeare Players program of the Rochester Community Players, and due to popular demand they have added an extra show on November 11th.