Benjamin Curns News

Just in time for Halloween, Shakespeare in the Park is back just after a long pandemic hiatus.

Elm Shakespeare has announced its lineup of upcoming events.

Elm Shakespeare Company recently hired Benjamin Curns as The Elm Shakespeare Company's Resident Teaching Artist.

Elm Shakespeare Company announces its free, socially distanced panoramic Halloween live performances of Taste of Fear: Tales of Terror and Suspense by William Shakespeare in New Haven's Edgerton Park! 

SCSU Theatre opens its 2020-21 season in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis with a radio presentation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People: broadcasting live on their Facebook page October 9-11th and October 15-18th at 8:00PM

On February 28th, Southern Connecticut State University Department of Theatre kicks off the spring half of its 2019-20 season with Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti. This production of Red Velvet traverses Black History Month and Women's History Month.

Two River Theater presents Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by Sara Holdren with original music composed by the band/theater collective The Lobbyists. Get a first look at the cast in action in the all new trailer!

Two River Theater presents Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by Sara Holdren with original music composed by the band/theater collective The Lobbyists. 

Calling all English majors and lovers of literature! Finally, there is a play that covers all 37 of Shakespeare plays in just 97 minutes! Is it possible? Come find out as just five madcap actors in tights weave their raucous way through all of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies--not to mention 152 Sonnets--in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter.

Elm Shakespeare Company returns to Edgerton Park this summer with one of Shakespeare's most wild comedies The Comedy of Errors. Celebrating its 24th Season, Elm Shakespeare provides world class theater, free of charge, to almost 30,000 audience members from throughout the greater New Haven area each August.

Shakespeare Academy at Stratford (SA@S) presents The Winter's Tale and Coriolanus rotating repertory from July 27th to August 4th. SA@S is a summer Shakespeare training program for actors.

On June 20th, the Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford kicked off its sixth season by welcoming fourteen young actors to Stratford, CT. Coming from as close as New York City and as far as the UK and Mexico, the group will spend six weeks training and performing on the property that once housed the American Shakespeare Festival Theater.

A play within a play, The Play that Goes Wrong is the tale of the Cornley University Drama Society which, despite several earlier snags, is opening their 1920s murder mystery, The Murder at Haversham Manor. In the moments just before the show opens, an audience member is recruited to help the tech crew (Ryan George as Trevor Watson and Ka-Ling Cheung as Annie Twilloil) mend a few set issues. No biggie, though. It's just a broken mantlepiece that holds several key props. And a main entrance from backstage with a door that won't stay closed. Or open. Or closed. There are a couple of floor planks that need to be nailed in, still. And there's a missing Duran Duran CD somewhere in the theatre. Oh, and a missing dog. What could possibly go wrong? Right?

A full-scale calamity is about to ensue at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. The Play That Goes Wrong - a masterpiece of theatrical mass-destruction, has thrilled audiences on Broadway and London's West End. Now it makes its American regional theatre debut, as The Rep becomes the first U.S. theatre to self-produce the show outside of New York City.

The Mighty Quinn Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce that multifaceted theater artist Benjamin Curns will be joining the team of its flagship educational theater program, Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford., in the summer of 2019 as Resident Director.

The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) celebrated 150 performances of the Wicked Folly Tour and Spring Season productions on May 30 with a performance of The Taming of the Shrew.

The Wicked Folly Tour has completed its tour, traveling across 17 states, producing over 50 performances at 33 venues, and reaching nearly 17,000 audience members. Now the troupe returns to Staunton to present the American Shakespeare Center's Spring Season. Performances begin at the Blackfriars Playhouse April 11.

THE PARCHMAN HOUR: SONGS AND STORIES OF THE '61 FREEDOM RIDERS runs through November 12, and the critics are weighing in!

THE PARCHMAN HOUR runs through November 12 at Virginia Stage Company. Watch the cast in this video as they rehearse!

Virginia Stage Company continues its 39th Season with The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the '61 Freedom Riders. Co-produced with Norfolk State University Theatre Company, The Parchman Hour journeys through the Deep South with the pioneers who fought discrimination and paved the way for the future. Written and directed by Mike Wiley, this play is adapted from real life accounts of the 1961 Freedom Rides and shares these struggles through music that ranges from spirituals to Bob Dylan.