The Laguna Playhouse Youth Theatre presents Shakespeare's classic love story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, the star crossed lovers who defy their families and marry in secret in THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET, which comes to Laguna Playhouse Moulton Theatre November 6 - 15. Family feuds and miscommunication lead to street fighting, the death of trusted kinsman's, banishment and finally the suicide of both Romeo and Juliet.

The School of Theatre at Florida State University presents TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare. Director Michael Hayden will bring the immortal words of Shakespeare to life tonight, October 30-November 8 in the Lab Theatre.

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.' Such is the case in William Shakespeare's masterpiece pastoral comedy about love and mistaken identity, AS YOU LIKE IT. Centenary College's NextStage Repertory brings the flirtatious romp through the fictional Forest of Arden to the Little Theater November 5 through November 8. 

The BLUEBARN Theatre is proud to present WALK THE NIGHT: WHERE MADNESS LIES. The next installment of its immersive event series is located within a converted century-old convent at 1310 N. 29th Street (called 'The Starlight Chateau').

The School of Theatre at Florida State University presents TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare. Director Michael Hayden will bring the immortal words of Shakespeare to life October 30-November 8 in the Lab Theatre.

The Public Theater will begin previews for the Mobile Shakespeare Unit's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS on Sunday, November 1. Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, the sit-down run of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS follows a three-week tour to the five boroughs, bringing free Shakespeare to audiences who have limited or no access to the arts. The Shakespeare comedy will run at The Public Theater through Sunday, November 22, with an official press opening on Thursday, November 5. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Hamlet Isn't Dead celebrates their 3rd Annual HIDoween Party with back-to-back performances of RICHARD II and ROMEO & JULIET. Too old to Trick-or-Treat? Replace the sugar with some Shakespeare, and join the HIDiots for an evening of de-throned kings, star-crossed love, and lots of holiday reveling. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast in action below!

The Holy Cross Student Theater (HCST) is proud to announce William Shakespeare's timeless classic As You Like It as its' fall production for the 2015-2016 school year. Performances run at Holy Cross High School (HCHS) in Waterbury on November 13th & 14th at 7:00 p.m. and November 15th at 2:00 p.m. The production is under the direction of HCHS faculty member, Paul Whealon (Waterbury).

BAM has confirmed plans for Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of William Shakespeare's history plays, RICHARD II; HENRY IV Parts I and II; and HENRY V, all directed by RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran, to be performed in repertory at the BAM Harvey Theater from Mar 24 through May 1, 2016. KING AND COUNTRY: SHAKESPEARE'S GREAT CYCLE OF KINGS is a worldwide theatrical event marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, with performances at BAM, London's Barbican, and in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.

'I will do so. Till then, think of the world,' Cassius says this to Brutus in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar is Shakespeare's gripping political drama about the fall of Julius Caesar in the hands of a group of conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius. Prince William Little Theatre's production of Julius Caesar doesn't take place in the play's traditional time period and this is certainly for the better. In this production, 'the world' that Cassius refers to isn't Rome, but Russia.

The Old Globe's GLOBE FOR ALL returns to bring free professional Shakespeare directly to diverse, multigenerational audiences in underserved communities around San Diego County. This second year of GLOBE FOR ALL follows a highly successful inaugural production in 2014. One of the Bard's most charming comedies, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, will be directed by renowned Shakespearean Rob Melrose, Artistic Director of San Francisco's Cutting Ball Theater, who makes his Globe debut. He directs a cast of local professional actors, including recent graduates of the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program.

In his program notes for Great Lakes Theater's production, director Joseph Hanreddy states, 'KING LEAR, with its titanic range of emotional, vast physical landscape, dark ironic humor and snarl of mysteries, contradictions, ambiguity and paradoxes, render it one of the theater's greatest challenges to realize in performance.' To his credit, Hanreddy creates a production which lives up to the challenge.

Back by popular demand and fresh from Australia's Adelaide Fringe Festival, Shotspeare is returning to New York with an all new production of MACBETH for four performances only at The Slipper Room (167 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002).

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare, produced by The Baron's Men and currently playing at The Curtain Theatre is a stellar achievement for the veteran company.

William Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, the granddaddy of all rom-coms, is the story of two courtships: Benedick and Beatrice, both too stubborn and clever for their own good, and Claudio and Hero, both too innocent and naive to not be taken advantage of by the resident villain. It's a classic for a reason, which means that companies mount productions of it all the time. So the question then, when the Rice Theatre Program decides to do a production of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, is what are they going to bring to the already crowded table?

Continuing its commitment to bringing free Shakespeare to the community and strengthening audience engagement with the arts, The Public Theater mounts its MOBILE SHAKESPEARE UNIT again this month with a free three-week tour to the five boroughs of Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah. The free Mobile Unit tour (today, October 9, through October 29) will bring free Shakespeare to audiences who have limited or no access to the arts by visiting correctional facilities, homeless shelters, social service organizations, and other community venues, including stops at our Public Works community partner venues: Brownsville Recreation Center in Brooklyn and DreamYard Project in the Bronx.

Olivier winner Elaine Paige has lined up her next project, and it's Shakespeare! The stage star published an extensive blog update today, in which she revealed she will be starring in a TV adaptation of the Bard's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM for the BBC.

The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) begin their autumn season in the West End this week. Following the huge success of the REP seasons in 2013 and 2014, the company returns to the Ambassadors Theatre with three new productions from September to December exploring themes of sex education, relationships, class and heritage. The 10-week rep season began on 18 September 2015, with press performances on 6 and 7 October 2015. Scroll down for a first look at THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, abridged by Tom Stoppard!

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced today the launch of a 39-play, three-year commissioning project, Play on! 36 playwrights translate Shakespeare.

A brand new coffee table book containing more than 1,000 posters from various productions of William Shakespeare's work, titled PRESENTING SHAKESPEARE, by Mirko Ilix and Steven Heller is now available. The tome even includes a foreword from noted Shakespeare director Julie Taymor!

Little Fish Theatre today announced the opening of Shakespeare's HENRY IV PART 1.  Shakespeare reflects on the consequences of actions, the role of princes and the realities of possessing power in what is considered one of his most popular history plays. Fans of Shakespeare by the Sea, Little Fish Theatre's celebrated summer Shakespeare festival will be delighted to see the Bard's works coming to Little Fish.

Synetic Theater will continue their 2015/16 Season with their 12th 'Wordless Shakespeare' adaptation, AS YOU LIKE IT. Press opening will be Saturday, December 12 at 8 p.m. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the stars below! 

ROMEO & JULIET by William Shakespeare is currently in previews for an opening tomorrow, 23 September, at Sheffield Theatres' Crucible Theatre. The production, starring Freddie Fox and Morfydd Clark in the title roles, runs through 17 October 2015, directed by Jonathan Humphreys. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the star-cross'd lovers in action below!

It's a little uncanny how easily Shakespeare's tragedy lends itself to reinvention by a troupe of clowns and still communicates the full measure of the poet's intent, yet that is exactly what happens in FOUR CLOWNS PRESENTS HAMLET, a guest production at The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. To director Turner Munch's credit, not only does he understand the funny – of which there is plenty in this production – he also knows how to play it off against its polar opposite to create palable dramatic tension. And he does it with surprising finesse.

It's one of Shakespeare's more raucous comedies so in order to do it right it's best to just let it happen and not get in its way too much. Luckily director Jane Nichols and the folks at Seattle Shakespeare Company understand that about "The Comedy of Errors" but that didn't stop them from adding in some glorious bits of slapstick and physical comedy to this already funny tale, elevating it to hilarious.