Macbeth, with Teller Magic, Part of Folger's '07/8 Season

Washington, D.C.'s acclaimed Folger Theatre has announced a 2007-2008 season that includes a production of Macbeth featuring magic by one half of the Penn and Teller team, according to the Washington Post.

The season will kick off with Shakespeare's pastoral romantic comedy As You Like It, directed by Derek Goldman and featuring Sarah Marshall as Touchstone the clown.  As You Like It will run from October 17th through November 25th.

Macbeth, directed by Aaron Posner, will feature magical effects by the latter pantomime-friendly half of the famed Penn and Teller duo.  Starring Ian Merrill Peakes in the title role of the tormented general-turned-king and Kate Eastwood Norris as his ambitious wife, the play will be staged as a co-production between the Folger Theatre and New Jersey's Two River Theater Company, of which Posner is artistic director. It runs February 28th through April 6th, 2008.

Richard Clifford's production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedic classic The School for Scandal, with Tom Story as Lady Sneerwell, runs from May 7th through June 15th.

The season will conclude with the medieval mystery play The Second Shepherds' Play, directed by Mary Hall Surface, starring Holly Twyford and Andrew Brownstein, and featuring musical staging by the Folger Consort, will run from December 12th through 30th.

The Folger Theatre performs in the Elizabethan Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill.  Visit www.folger.edu for more information.