William Shakespeare News

An Iraqi Shakespeare troupe from the American University of Iraq Sulaimani (AUIS) is in Oregon performing and holding talkbacks with audiences. This group has spent the past few days at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is performing in their Green Showseries this week.

Summer youth programs have begun once again at Rubicon Theatre Company (RTC), with nearly one-hundred students celebrating with events and performances that are perfect for the entire family.

GRIFFITH PARK FREE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 2012, the largest summer theater event in the City of Los Angeles, began its performances June 28 and runs Thursdays through Sundays at 7 p.m. through to September 2. All Performances are free. A Midsummer Night's Dream opens tonight, July 5.

Summer youth programs have begun once again at Rubicon Theatre Company (RTC), with nearly one-hundred students celebrating with events and performances that are perfect for the entire family.

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet will be performed under the stars this summer at three unique venues in Bridgeport and Stratford: The Peacock Pavilion at CT's Beardsley Zoo, historic McLevy Green in Bridgeport's flourishing downtown area; and on the grounds of The American Shakespeare Festival Theater in Stratford as part of Festival! Stratford.

From June 16th to June 30th, New York Restoration Project will be hosting Snorks and Piñs in their community gardens in the South Bronx, East Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, to raise community awareness of these wonderful spaces and to welcome all neighbors to their gardens.

Michael Attenborough will direct Jonathan Pryce as William Shakespeare's KING LEAR running at the Almeida Theatre from the 31 August - 3 November 2012.

ClassicsFest 2012, Part 2 - The Antaeus Company, L.A.'s classical theater ensemble, presents staged readings of six classics in six weeks.

Water Works Theatre company's founder and Chairman, Edward Nahhat, announced today that the company has cast its 12th annual Shakespeare In The Park productions. Shakespeare in the Park is Michigan's biggest and best outdoor professional theatre event featuring two weeks of theatrical fun in the middle of the tree-filled 28 acre Starr Jaycee Park.

The Cole Foundation is excited to announce the Intercultural Conversations-Conversations Interculturelles program grants totalling $199,900 to professional theatre companies in Montreal for their 2012-2013 seasons.

Trinity Rep is proud to announce that Associate Artistic Director Tyler Dobrowsky has been named to Providence Business News 2012 40 Under Forty award list.

Join celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy when she hosts an evening of her multi- MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, on Monday, July 16th (7PM) at the brand new Broadway nightclub, 54 BELOW (254 West 54th Street ~ btw. 7th & 8th Avenues).

Actors' Theatre of Columbus tackles The Merchant of Venice as its mid-summer offering in order to let audiences decide Shakespeare's intent for Shylock themselves. John S. Kuhn, Artistic Director of Actors' Theatre, who is also playing the role of Shylock, promises a nuanced performance from all of the actors in this production, which runs June 28 through July 29.

GRIFFITH PARK FREE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 2012, the largest summer theater event in the City of Los Angeles, begins its performances June 28 and runs Thursdays through Sundays at 7 p.m. through to September 2. All Performances are free.

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is delighted to present the regional premiere of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES adapted by Steve Canny.

Spotlighters Theatre - Young Actors Academy is thrilled to announce it's eighth year, providing an intensive theatre program for Middle and High School students, and an introduction through creative play for Lower School students to the FUN-damentals of theatre and acting. This year the High School Academy will present William Shakespeare's MACBETH. The Middle School Academy will tackle Shakespeare's comedy of mistaken identity - Two Gentlemen of Verona. And the Lower School Academy will be presenting a devised work, created using shared and common themes.

Actors' Theatre of Columbus tackles The Merchant of Venice as its mid-summer offering in order to let audiences decide Shakespeare's intent for Shylock themselves. John S. Kuhn, Artistic Director of Actors' Theatre, who is also playing the role of Shylock, promises a nuanced performance from all of the actors in this production, which runs June 28 through July 29.

Canadian Stage will mark the 30th anniversary of Toronto's much-loved outdoor theatre tradition with a production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by award-winning director Richard Rose.

Olney Theatre Center expands their free Summer Shakespeare offerings beginning with the National Players' production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare…[Abridged] by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfieldon July 27 and 28 at 8:00 pm on The Root Family Stage.

Continuing the celebration of its 50th Anniversary Season, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present Shakespeare's slapstick comedy THE COMEDY OF ERRORS on its Outdoor Stage - the Theatre's enormously popular annual summer venue for family theatre-going under-the-stars. Check out photos from the production, running now through July 29th, below!