Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT Closes The Gamm's Season

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) closes its 2017-18 season with William Shakespeare's romantic comedy As You Like It. Chock full of word play, music, clowns, and a timely message, As You Like It is the perfect play to close Season 33 and mark The Gamm's final show in Pawtucket. The theater will reopen in September in its new home at 1245 Jefferson Boulevard in Warwick.

Gamm Artistic Director Tony Estrella and Gamm Resident Scholar Rachel Walshe co-direct this beguiling exploration of traditional gender roles, class, friendship and romance. The production features Nora Eschenheimer as Rosalind, Shura Baryshnikov in her Gamm debut as Orlando, and Gamm Resident Actor Jeanine Kane as melancholy Jaques. "As You Like It is the peerless theatrical masterwork about love and freedom--specifically the freedom to love on your own terms and embrace its myriad complexities in the form of desire, compassion, loyalty, devotion, kindness and obsession," said Gamm Artistic Director Tony Estrella. "Helen Terry, the great British actor and artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe puts it best: 'What Rosalind is exploring is [the question] how to be? The answer is AS YOU LIKE IT.'"

As You Like It runs from April 19-May 27 at The Gamm Theatre, 172 Exchange St., Pawtucket, RI. Tickets are $44, $52 and $60; preview performances (April 19-22) are $33. Call 401-723-4266 or order online at gammtheatre.org. ABOUT AS YOU LIKE IT One of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, inhabited by some of his best-loved characters and verse! This celebrated romance follows resourceful young Rosalind as she flees the corruption of court in search of a more compassionate way to live. Played as a merry game of romance and mistaken identity with Rosalind's true love, Orlando, As You Like It is not to be missed. Join us as we return to The Gamm's favorite playwright for a timely story about what happens when the old ways break down and we must find a new way forward. Sponsors: Navigant Credit Union Season support from: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.