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Seattle Shakespeare Company opens its new season at the Intiman Playhouse with the comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. Director Sheila Daniels, who staged the company's award-winning production of Electra, returns to play with the dark shadows and golden glow of Shakespeare most popular play.

Seattle Shakespeare Company opens its new season at the Intiman Playhouse with the comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. Director Sheila Daniels, who staged the company's award-winning production of Electra, returns to play with the dark shadows and golden glow of Shakespeare most popular play.

This September, ACT - A Contemporary Theatre brings power, passion, and politics to the Mainstage in Peter Oswald's astonishingly relevant and thrilling adaption of Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, while The Central Heating Lab welcomes Collektor with Sam Shepard's haunting and timeless drama A Lie of the Mind and the return of Short Stories Live at Town Hall.

Two sets of long lost twins unknowingly cross paths, and set the stage for an evening of mistaken identity, mixed up confusion and mayhem! This comic master piece is full of slapstick and sight gags, puns and pratfalls. Keeping track of which twin is which is only half the fun, as Shakespeare also stacks the deck with some of his most outrageous characters, including a jealous wife, a seductive courtesan, a hapless old man seeking his sons, a zany conjurer attempting an exorcism, and even a nun who's not all she seems to be!

September is loaded with a variety of plays, readings, presentations and parties, starting with David Rambo's portrait of renowned advice columnist Ann Landers in The Lady With All the Answers. Also answering the big questions is ACT's new lecture series, InterACTions with 'The Physiology of Imagination and the Aesthetics of Stability' with historian Mott Greene. The popular Pinter Fortnightly series and Short Stories Live return, along with Seattle Dance Project's 2010-2011 season opener, Project Orpheus, based on the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. September also marks the return of ACT Out! Gala & Benefit, a fun filled night featuring the talents if UMO Ensemble, 'Awesome' and The Love Markets.

The Centre House Theatre will close its production of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA on April 11th. Shakespeare's comic tale of wandering hearts gets relocated to the sunshine and shenanigans of the California Gold Coast in Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Seattle Shakes is currently presenting one of William Shakespeare's more lighthearted ventures, the fun and goofy "Two Gentlemen of Verona". And while Shakespeare's comedies don't always broaden one's horizons (culturally speaking) you're sure to have a totally awesome time with this one, dude.

The Seattle Shakespeare Company presents THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA By William Shakespeare. Directed by Marcus Goodwin. The production will run from March 19 to April 11, 2010.

Shakespeare's comic tale of wandering hearts gets relocated to the sunshine and shenanigans of the California Gold Coast in Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Shakespeare's comic tale of wandering hearts gets relocated to the sunshine and shenanigans of the California Gold Coast in Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Shakespeare's comic tale of wandering hearts gets relocated to the sunshine and shenanigans of the California Gold Coast in Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

This December, Shakespeare's only holiday-themed play, Twelfth Night sweeps onto the stage featuring traditional music and caroling, jokes and laughter, and some smooching under the mistletoe. Artistic Director Stephanie Shine stages this beguiling comedy of romantic misadventures which opens on Friday, December 4 at the Center House Theatre and will run through December 27.

This December, Shakespeare's only holiday-themed play, Twelfth Night sweeps onto the stage featuring traditional music and caroling, jokes and laughter, and some smooching under the mistletoe. Artistic Director Stephanie Shine stages this beguiling comedy of romantic misadventures which opens on Friday, December 4 at the Center House Theatre and will run through December 27.

Seattle Shakespeare presents TWELFTH NIGHT: A beguiling comedy of romantic adventures and misdirected love.

This December, Shakespeare's only holiday-themed play, Twelfth Night sweeps onto the stage featuring traditional music and caroling, jokes and laughter, and some smooching under the mistletoe. Artistic Director Stephanie Shine stages this beguiling comedy of romantic misadventures which opens on Friday, December 4 at the Center House Theatre and will run through December 27.

The Hansberry Project at ACT presents a benefit reading of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window, Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 7:30 p.m., in the Bullitt Cabaret at ACT Theatre. Tickets are $25. Funds raised support ongoing development of Hansberry projects and new works.

The Hansberry Project at ACT presents a benefit reading of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window, Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 7:30 p.m., in the Bullitt Cabaret at ACT Theatre. Tickets are $25. Funds raised support ongoing development of Hansberry projects and new works.

Georgia Shakespeare's producing artistic director Richard Garner has announced that local award-winning actors Daniel Thomas May and Courtney Patterson have been tapped to play Brick and Maggie Pollitt in Tennessee Williams' sizzling Southern tale of family deception, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, June 25 to August 1 at the Conant Performing Arts Center (4484 Peachtree Rd. NE).