All's Well That Ends Well at Children's Shakespeare Theatre

Cell Phones and Graffiti Characterize Modern Dress Production of All’s Well That Ends Well opening November 14th at Children’s Shakespeare Theatre

Performances: Fridays, November 14th and 21st at 7pm
Saturdays, November 15th and 22nd at 7pm
At the Palisades Presbyterian Church, 117 Washington Springs Rd, Palisades, NY

Children’s Shakespeare Theatre will explore the rich textures of Shakespeare’s problem comedy All’s Well That Ends Well through its young cast’s experiences growing up in 2025 in this modern dress production of the play opening November 14th at Palisades Presbyterian Church.

The King of France (Alexander Josuweit) is dying, addicted to his cell phone and refuses his doctor’s medicines. When the daughter of a famed but deceased physician, Helena (Myla Zimbler), tries to cure him, he also refuses. Helena believes in the medicines that her father has left her so completely that she tells the King, if he is not cured, he can take her life.

The King is cured and as thanks gives Helena anything she wants. She asks for the hand of one of his Lords in marriage, Bertram (Levon Goldberg) whom she is in love with. The King marries them instantly, but Bertram has other plans and flees that very day with his ne’er-do-well friend to fight in a European war far away.

Through missed texts, fashion wars, ambushes, military parades, a religious pilgrimage, cell phone mix-ups, and a war zone covered in post-modern graffiti, all’s well that ends well, but you must see it to believe it.

CST Managing Director Grey Johnson directs a cast of sixteen children ages 8 – 16 which also includes Adelaide Macri as the Countess of Rousillon, Declan Amendolia as her fool, Lavatch, Richard Reimann Valdes as the flamboyant coward and party-boy, Parolles, as well as Grace Amoonclark, Ruth Benjamin, Caspian Dawson-Hollis, Elliot Johnston, Kyla Li, Nora Maloney, Megan McAree, Amada Oh, Charles Reimann Valdes, and Erica Winfree. It is Assistant Directed by Elinor Greenway and Emilia Falkner, with costumes by Guy Carsone and sets by Heather Aveson.

The cast and company of Children's Shakespeare Theatre come from New York and New Jersey and include home schooled students, along with students from Nyack High School, Nyack Middle School, North Rockland High School, South Orangetown Middle School, Ramsey High School, Lewis F. Cole Middle School, Elizabeth Morrow School, Upper Nyack Elementary School and Green Meadow Waldorf School.  

CST is dedicated to providing a nurturing and enriching environment through the performance of classical theatre, allowing children to explore, in a safe and supportive educational setting, what it means to be human.

Children’s Shakespeare Theatre receives support from the Jerome Robbins Foundation and our many individual donors.

Tickets for all performances are $25 for adults, $20 for children under 18. Group rates are also available. Teachers can see All’s Well That Ends Well for free.

Tickets and more information about Children’s Shakespeare Theatre can be found on our website www.childrensshakespeare.org           

Authors

• David Schafer
• Jonathan Dove
• Joseph Connolly
• Richard Weinstock
• William Shakespeare

Tony Awards and Nominations for All's Well That Ends Well