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Experience the haunting tale of ambition and madness in Shakespeare's MACBETH at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA. This gripping production, directed by José Zayas, ...

The American Shakespeare Center presents the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by José Zayas, at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia. This Oscar ...

A Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' most well-known story, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is a wealthy curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth ...

Sailors and pirates, nuns and hookers, innocent virgins and evil kings--seven actors play forty roles in Shakespeare's adventure tale about a shattered family trying to ...

There could scarcely be a more provocative start to the season—or a more vivid way to experience Shakespeare’s beloved final play. Unique staging that transports ...

Outcast Theatre Collective and The Studio at 620 team up to present PASS OVER.In PASS OVER, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandus "powerful and provocative" (Arifa Akbar, The ...

You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make ...

This tragedy tells the story of two “star-cross'd lovers” from feuding families. During a party, Romeo and Juliet fall in love. They meet secretly until ...

A Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' most well-known story, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is a wealthy curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth ...

Electrifying and immediate, Macbeth plunges headlong into the darkest depths of the human condition and the toxic underbelly of politics and warfare—with murder begetting murder, ...

Helena has a heart that will not be denied. All’s Well That Ends Well upends and reexamines the love story, reveling in the imperfection. Part ...

In this final, epic installment of Shakespeare’s Henriad trilogy, ASC veteran Brandon Carter leads “once more unto the breach” as King Henry V—one of the ...

A Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' most well-known story, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is a wealthy curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth ...

Against a backdrop of intolerance suddenly buffeted by change, Shakespeare weaves interconnected tales of friendship, love, and family while bringing to life one of his ...

Two young scholars of color, adrift in a sea of white at a Shakespeare conference that could shape their careers, grapple with their longing for ...

Evil is everywhere in Shakespeare’s great tragedy, as the love of Othello and Desdemona is destroyed by envy and jealousy, and truth twisted by innuendo. ...

In Jonson’s comic masterpiece, the residents of extravagant Venice are transformed into animals by an infection of greed, as the rich, sly Volpone tries to ...

A merry 90-minute, no-intermission romp through one of Shakespeare’s most joyous rom-coms! Viola is in love with Orsino…who is in love with Olivia… who is ...

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedic play by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the ...

While young Prince Hal follows the path toward kingship under the eye of his father, the aging Falstaff drinks and starts trouble. The satisfying end ...

Antigone’s father Oedipus sought the truth at the cost of losing his kingdom, his queen and his sight. A civil war erupts over which of ...

Back by popular demand is Capital Stage's sell-out holiday hit! Part Big Bang, part Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, Every Christmas Story Ever Told ...

Jane Austen's adored heroine gets the musical treatment in Emma from acclaimed composer and lyricist Paul Gordon (Daddy Long Legs, Jane Eyre). For centuries, Emma ...

George Etherege; dir: Christopher Marino....

Tom Stoppard's comedic tour-de-force "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" turns "Hamlet" on its head, telling the tale from the bewildered perspective of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, ...

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Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. ...

William Shakespeare; dir: Jim Warren....

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War is hell, but politics may be worse. And when one becomes the other, no one walks away unscathed. In this season of political warfare ...

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A delicious new show about navigating life “alone” in New York. In the search for love, Mary has been set up, hooked up, strung up, ...

A delicious new show about navigating life “alone” in New York. In the search for love, Mary has been set up, hooked up, strung up, ...

By William Shakespeare June 14 - November 27, 2016 Love flows freely and confusion runs rampant in Shakespeare's tale of shipwreck, mistaken identity, and unrequited ...

By Alex Timbers Music and Lyrics By Michael Friedman June 15 - November 26, 2016 A president for the people, by the people -- that's ...

By William Shakespeare September 7 - November 29, 2016 In this wild carnival of avarice, Shakespeare gives us the glorious second-chapter of England's Wars of ...

By William Shakespeare July 7 - November 25, 2016 Shakespeare's profound exploration of the meaning of human life. King Lear is both timeless and unnervingly ...

The story of England’s hero-king and the greatest upset in European military history is Shakespeare’s finale to his great history plays. More than that, Henry ...

Enormous wit, tremendous bravery, and a gargantuan nose. Cyrano is passionately in love with the glorious Roxanne, but believes that she could never love him ...

From the first words of the play until the title character loses his head, Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy is also his most unrelenting examination of the ...

In this rollicking farce, Shakespeare elevates Roman comedy to dizzying heights. Two long-separated twins, their two tricky servants (also twins), a jealous wife, and her ...

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare...

Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare...

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on ...

Celebrated director Christopher Bayes restages this magical comedy at the Shakespeare Theatre Company after a sold-out run at Yale Repertory Theatre. Identities are mistaken, engagements ...

Epicœne, or The silent woman, also known as The Epicene, is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson....

The Maid's Tragedy is a play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher....

Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon, generally regarded as one of his most obscure ...

An idyllic Forest of Arden provides the lush backdrop for Shakespeare's glorious romantic comedy of courtiers, clowns, philosophers and provincials—all bewitched by the trials and ...

The 2012/13 Tempt Me Further Tour takes a break from touring the country to give you some ghostly season’s greetings. Marley, the three Christmas ghosts, ...

Studio Theatre: Ginna Hoben....

Jascha Heifetz was a violinist who was born in Vilnius, former Russian Empire and contemporary Lithuania....

Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare....

The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Free For All is a much-loved Washington tradition, offering free performances of a Shakespearean classic to the general public. STC is ...

She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith that was first performed in London in 1773....

Writing at the height of his powers, Shakespeare provides a feast of language and songs — and a stage full of memorable characters — from ...

In Love’s Labour’s Lost, the King of Navarre and his three schoolmates are ripe for an education in love from the Princess of France and ...

John Webster’s brutal and astonishing play tells the story of one of the stage’s greatest women and two of its greatest villains. The widowed Duchess ...

By John FordIn English, with French surtitlesEN Under the stewardship of director Declan Donnellan and designer Nick Ormerod, Cheek by Jowl has established an international ...

Suspicious that his wife Hermione has been unfaithful, King Leontes of Sicilia imprisons the queen, orders the death of her suspected lover, and banishes his ...

Studio Theatre: Ginna Hoben....

There could scarcely be a more provocative start to the season—or a more vivid way to experience Shakespeare’s beloved final play. Unique staging that transports ...

Ever wish you could take a break from the responsibility of being you? Wilde’s two charming bachelors each enjoy a double life, running away from ...