Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Jay Z, LMFAO, The Police, David Guetta (as well as Vivaldi and Prokofiev) provide the hit tunes as the greatest love story of all time bursts into the 21st century in a phenomenal adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Rasta Thomas' Romeo and Juliet will play a four-week London season at the Peacock Theatre, Sadler's Wells' home in the West End, now through Sunday 29 March. The show opens tonight, 4 March 2015. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the dancers in action below!
The Burbage Theatre Company presents a new take on 'The Taming of the Shrew' by William Shakespeare, for a limited run of seven performances at the William Hall Library in Cranston, RI. Burbage Theatre Company Artistic Director Jeff Church directs this whimsical farce about how we fall in love and the consequences that come with who we end up with.
Arden Theatre Company continues its 27th season of great stories with Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Alexander Burns directs. Macbeth runs from tonight, March 5, 2015 - April 19, 2015, on the Arden's F. Otto Haas Stage at 40 N. 2nd Street in Philadelphia.
square product theatre finishes its 9th Season with the World Premiere of Ham McBeth, Ham McBeth will be presented in the East Theater at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, tonight, March 5-21, 2015.
Brighton based Theatre North are delighted to announce that MIRANDO - The Gay Tempest has been selected to be part of WINDOW, Brighton Fringe's Industry Showcase in May 2015.
Why does Iago hate the Moor? That has always been the great question in OTHELLO and one for which Shakespeare provides no definitive answer. Yes, he feels slighted when Othello promotes Cassio over him but is that enough reason to plot the general's demise? Is it because he believes that Othello has slept with his wife, or because of the color of his skin? Or are Iago's actions fueled by something deeper like self-loathing?
Warmth and merriment abound inside The Heritage Center Theatre in Morrisville, Pennsylvania from March 6 - 22 as ActorsNET stages the magical mayhem of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!
Othello kicks off The Porters of Hellsgate's ninth season, with Artistic Director Charles Pasternak returning to the boards with them for the first time since his award-nominated performance as Henry V just one year ago. The production runs now through March 28, 2015.
The Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival will open its 80th year with preview performances beginning on February 20 and the season officially kicking off tonight, February 27, in the Angus Bowmer Theatre with Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing (director, Lileana Blain-Cruz).
Folger Consort, the early music ensemble in residence at Folger Shakespeare Library, presents a one-night only performance of The Merchant of Venice: Music and Poetry of Shakespeare's Play at the Music Center at Strathmore tonight, February 27, 2015 at 8pm. The concert is the fourth production in Folger Consort's 2014/15 season, Pictures at an Exhibition
Park Square continues its 2014-2015 season with a passionate, youthful rendition of William Shakespeare's greatest love story, ROMEO AND JULIET. Adapted and directed by David Mann, this production on the Boss Stage features a limited number of public performances tonight, February 27 - March 8, 2015.
Gamut Theatre Group's Harrisburg Shakespeare Company will bring their 2014-2015 Educational Outreach Show, Hamlet to the main stage today, February 27-March 8, 2015.
?American Players Theatre (APT) announces its 36th Summer Season, June 6 to October 18, 2015, a diverse lineup of eight classical and contemporary plays in repertory that includes the work of two visiting Chicago directors: Derrick Sanders, founding artistic director of Congo Square Theatre Company, makes his APT debut directing The Island by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona in APT's intimate 200-seat Touchstone Theatre; and Jeff Award winner William Brown returns to direct Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in APT's flagship 1148-seat outdoor amphitheater Up the Hill.
The Acting Company in association with The Guthrie Theater presents William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," directed by Devin Brain, Friday, March 20, 8 p.m.; and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," adapted by acclaimed playwright Jeffrey Hatcher from the novel by Mark Twain, directed by Ian Belknap, Saturday, March 21 at 8 p.m. Both performances take place at the McAninch Arts Center, 425 Fawell Blvd., on the campus of College of DuPage. There will be a free MAC Chat with the cast led by Brain immediately following both performances. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the company in action below!
Kentucky Shakespeare and Baxter Avenue Theatres are pleased to bring five films of live Shakespeare stage productions from the Stratford Festival of Ontario, Canada and the Royal Shakespeare Company of Stratford-upon-Avon England with their 'Shakespeare on Stage Film Series'. The theatrical productions will be screened in cinemas around the world in 2015 and Kentucky Shakespeare is proud to partner with Baxter Avenue Theatres to bring this event to Louisville.
Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF will hold its 7th Annual Mock Trial tonight, February 24, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center.
The Daily Mail writes that the Barbican Theatre's summer 2015 production of HAMLET, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, will officially be broadcast via National Theatre Live on October 15 in the UK, Europe and the US, as well as later that same month in Japan (with subtitles), plus Brazil. Tickets go on sale March 16.
Kentucky Shakespeare and Baxter Avenue Theatres are pleased to bring five films of live Shakespeare stage productions from the Stratford Festival of Ontario, Canada and the Royal Shakespeare Company of Stratford-upon-Avon England with their "Shakespeare on Stage Film Series". The theatrical productions will be screened in cinemas around the world in 2015 and Kentucky Shakespeare is proud to partner with Baxter Avenue Theatres to bring this event to Louisville.
William Shakespeare's Henry V opens tonight, February 18, and continues through March 22, 2015 at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
The course of love definitely does NOT run smooth when William Shakespeare's family-friendly comedy 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' plays on the Clarence Brown Theatre Mainstage tonight, February 19 through March 8, 2015. An Open Captioned performance will take place on Sunday, February 22 at 2:00 pm.
It seems fitting that Strollers Theatre would open one of The Bard's greatest comedies on Valentine's weekend as love is all around in Twelfth Night.
Rekindled by the 2006 film She's the Man, this Shakespearian romantic romp is oozing with mistaken identity and heartsick characters. With some of the greatest parts written in early modern theatre, director Greg Harris took his performers to task.
