Shakespeare & Company News

Casting has been announced for Stay Awake, Jake by Tim ­­­Gilvin, directed by Grace Taylor streaming on 18 and 19 December 2020 at Southwark Playhouse.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has today announced details of its Winter 2020 programme which includes a newly commissioned series of Tales for Winter running from Saturday 5 December 2020 to Saturday 23 January 2021.

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company will continue its online series 'The Actor's Craft' with acclaimed actors Amy Ryan and Jason Butler Harner exploring the roles of Beatrice and Benedick, the couple at the center of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The event will take place on Thursday, December 3, at 7:00 p.m.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company continues its Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon Series on Sunday, November 22 with a celebration of gratitude for the season as described by its masterful literary caretaker.

To immerse yourself in the Christmas spirit, Chiswick Playhouse is pleased to present a series of Christmas concerts featuring stars of the West End.

Audiences worldwide have one final week to stream Utopia, the wildly inventive premiere from Obie Award winning playwright Charles L. Mee, presented by San Francisco's Cutting Ball Theater.

Due to the upcoming lockdown 'Express G&S' will now get its rescheduled world premiere at the newly configured, socially distanced Pleasance Theatre, London N1, from Tuesday 2 - Sunday 7 February, 2021.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company has re-scheduled its free, outdoor performance of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Wiseacre Brewery for Saturday, November 14 at 2:00 pm.  Wiseacre Brewery is located at 2783 Broad Avenue in Memphis. 

Elm Shakespeare Company continues its free, online event series, Building a Brave New Theater: Exploring Shakespeare & Race in 2020 with a BIPOC DIRECTOR'S FORUM on Thursday November 12 at 7pm on Zoom.

Southwest Shakespeare Core Company member and StoryTime Classics LIVE! Associate Artist, Beau Heckman, and Debra Ann Byrd, founder of Harlem Shakespeare and Artist-in-Residence talk about her upcoming show -- Becoming Othello: A Black Girl's Journey.

As part of the online 2020 Fall Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host 'Things That Act Shakespeare' with Dr. Jungmin Song on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. ET.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company is continuing its Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon Series on Sunday, November 8 with an exploration of the Literary Renaissance of the Emerald Isle and its mystical Aran Islands.

Coming soon is the first in a series of newly commissioned Digital Shorts videos, pairing gifted composers with visual artists, which have recently been expanded to include composer Anna Clyne's forthcoming The Gorgeous Nothings, a setting of Emily Dickinson texts for soprano and string quintet.

2020 has proven to be an exceptional year for the Tony Awards and the nominees in the category of Best Original Score are equally exceptional. In a category usually dominated by musical scores, all five nominees in the category come from plays.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is offering its first Fall Musical Theatre Training Program for young people ages 9-18 years of age. Students of all experience levels are welcome for this 5-class program, where they will be coached in musical theater performance and technique by some of the industry's leading professional artists & educators.

Celebrate Halloween safely with the San Diego Shakespeare Society's Spooky Art Stops virtually at The San Diego Museum of Art featuring pieces from Macbeth, Othello, and more!⁠

This December, Jermyn Street Theatre have teamed up with Guildford Shakespeare Company to present Charles Dickens' thrilling story of compassion and redemption in a special online adaptation by NAYLAH AHMED.

Two-time OnComm award-winning, The Show Must Go Online, the global digital theatre movement producing live performances of the chronology of Shakespeare's plays weekly, today announce the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed performed reading of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

On Sunday, November 8, three very special new friends of Los Altos Stage Company will present a very special performance as a fundraising event for the Company.

Door Shakespeare has announced their second virtual production: The Comedy of Errors, by William Shakespeare. The Comedy of Errors streams to homes from Tuesday, October 27 through Monday, November 16.