Date of Birth: April 23, 1564
Date of Death: April 23, 1616 (52)
Birth Place: Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, ENGLAND
Atlas Shakespeare Company will present Shakespeare's OTHELLO at the Underground Theater at Abrons Arts Center in Lower Manhattan, directed by co-founder Adriana Alter with a cast of ten actors.
It was good to be back at the Washington National Opera for their thrilling performance of West Side Story after a year of extreme change for this vital world-renowned artistic organization/institution.
The Contemporary Theater Company in Wakefield, RI will present its 8th Annual OCEAN STATE IMPROV FESTIVAL, featuring 37 troupes from 13 states in five days of performances and workshops.
Madison Shakespeare Company has unveiled a summer season spanning multiple venues, featuring works by Shakespeare, Thomas Heywood, and Edmond Rostand, plus Eastern European folklore across Madison-area stages.
A searing MEASURE FOR MEASURE.
Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance will return to New York City with performances of its full-length theater-dance work, The Winter’s Tale, set to an original score by renowned composer Martin Bresnick, and conducted by Lisa Moore.
Uliana Klimchuk will make her Edinburgh Fringe debut with SELEDKA, a one-woman political satire exploring the cultural divide between contemporary America and war-torn Ukraine, directed by Lily Afghani.
Living Room Productions NYC will present a staged reading of TWELFTH NIGHT: 1941, a world-premiere play inspired by actors who performed Shakespeare during the London Blitz, at El Barrio's Artspace in New York.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced its 40th Anniversary Season, featuring Shakespeare classics in repertory, a bilingual ROMEO Y JULIETA, the return of ILLINOISE, and the world premiere of HEARTBREAKERS.
The best of Broadway and off-Broadway were on hand at the Ziegfeld Ballroom to celebrate 92nd Annual Drama League Awards, hosted by Emmy Award winner Frank DiLella.
Great Lakes Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival have announced a new partnership with Play On Shakespeare.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare's Samuel H.
When it comes to playwrights and poets, William Shakespeare towers above everyone else who has ever put pen to paper.
While The Winter's Tale's regarded as a play of two halves (set in Sicilia and Bohemia), former Royal Shakespeare Company director Greg Doran's poignant and absorbing Walking Shadow is a book of two halves.
Independent Shakespeare Co.
Oak Park Festival Theatre announced casts for its 51st season, staging HAMLET and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST in repertory for the first time in company history at Austin Gardens in downtown Oak Park.
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is May 13, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
Further details have been revealed for the upcoming Broadway transfer of Jamie Lloyd's production of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
The Stratford Festival will present SOMETHING ROTTEN! for a return engagement, directed and choreographed by Donna Feore, with a cast led by Mark Uhre, Starr Domingue, Henry Firmston, and Jeff Lillico as Shakespeare.
