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The Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, directed by Charles Pasternak. This production features modern music and choreography, ensemble storytelling, and a majority gender-bent cast - highlighting Shakespeare's exploration of societal roles, violation, and forgiveness.

The Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, directed by Charles Pasternak. This production features modern music and choreography, ensemble storytelling, and a majority gender-bent cast - highlighting Shakespeare's exploration of societal roles, violation, and forgiveness.

Concluding their 11th Season, The Porters turn to Shakespeare's earliest king; John will be the 25th production on the company's march to complete the Bard's canon. Against a landscape of war and vicious political selfishness, the play examines the fallout when a weak and feckless bully runs his country to the brink of destruction.

Concluding their 11th Season, The Porters turn to Shakespeare's earliest king; John will be the 25th production on the company's march to complete the Bard's canon. Against a landscape of war and vicious political selfishness, the play examines the fallout when a weak and feckless bully runs his country to the brink of destruction.

Attempting to produce all of Shakespeare's plays would be daunting task for any theatre company but one young group of actors has continued to stay the course. Over a ten-year period, the Porters of Hellsgate have produced twenty of the playwright's thirty-eight plays, steadily working toward their goal of being the first in Los Angeles to mount the entire canon. This season, they tackle three at once with HENRY VI, Parts 1, 2 & 3.

Fresh off of their sold-out, critically acclaimed run at this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival, The Porters of Hellsgate remount BREAKING BARD, winner of the Ezra Buzzington Spirit of the Fringe Award for Best Writing (Gus Krieger). BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Fresh off of their sold-out, critically acclaimed run at this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival, The Porters of Hellsgate are proud to announce their upcoming remount of BREAKING BARD, winner of the Ezra Buzzington Spirit of the Fringe Award for Best Writing (Gus Krieger).

This theatrical parody of a TV favorite has Fringe hit written all over it! Get your tickets now because the theater only has about 40 seats and the show is going to sell out. It should. Gus Krieger's writing is smart, compact, wickedly funny, and exactly what you hope it will be when you picture a Walter White world with William Shakespeare dialogue.

BREAKING BARD posits a question critical to our culture: What if Breaking Bad had originally been written by The Bard himself? A sure treat for Breaking Bad fans and Shakespeare aficionados alike, this one act play offers up the most lamentable tragedy of Walter of Albuquerque: containing his treacherous plots, his pitiful murther, his tyrannical rise to power, and his most deserved death.

BREAKING BARD posits a question critical to our culture: What if Breaking Bad had originally been written by The Bard himself? A sure treat for Breaking Bad fans and Shakespeare aficionados alike, this one act play offers up the most lamentable tragedy of Walter of Albuquerque: containing his treacherous plots, his pitiful murther, his tyrannical rise to power, and his most deserved death.

The Porters of Hellsgate present The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, produced by The Porters of Hellsgate and directed by Jesse James Thomas, playing through November 15 at the Actors Forum.

THE WINTER'S TALE is not the easiest of Shakespeare's plays to stage. It must believably present a story sharply divided into two parts set in two different countries with drastically contrasting tones, and pull off an ending that resolves them by way of magic or a well-concealed plot, based on whichever point of view the director takes. The violence of the first half of the play in Sicilia (winter) melts away in the pastoral beauty of Bohemia (spring) in the second where the story continues sixteen years later before reuniting the past and present and absolving the sins of a repentant king.

Barnardine will have a staged reading today, July 30th at 7pm at The Group Rep at The Lonny Chapman Theatre, 10900 Burbank Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91601. The reading will run approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

Barnardine will have a staged reading on Wednesday, July 30th at 7pm at The Group Rep at The Lonny Chapman Theatre, 10900 Burbank Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91601. The reading will run approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

The Porters of Hellsgate present William Shakespeare's KING LEAR, starring Larry Cedar and directed by Thomas Bigley. Check out the video below, of Director Thomas Bigley discussing KING LEAR.

The Porters of Hellsgate present William Shakespeare's KING LEAR, starring Larry Cedar and directed by Thomas Bigley. Check out a first look at the production below!

The Porters of Hellsgate present William Shakespeare's KING LEAR, starring Larry Cedar and directed by Thomas Bigley.

The Porters of Hellsgate present William Shakespeare's KING LEAR, starring Larry Cedar and directed by Thomas Bigley.