A Mad World, My Masters

PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL Preview Tonight

Blackfriars Premiere. Money and sex, swindles and scams take center stage in the mad world of Jacobean London - with the unexpected possiblity of true love.  More 

Much Ado about Nothing

NOW PLAYING through APRIL 8

In this powerful comedy, Shakespeare makes you laugh, but also breaks your heart - and magically puts it back together again. 

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Richard III

NOW PLAYING through APRIL 5

Being seduced by Richard III's shameless treachery is one of theatre-going's most delicious guilty pleasures.   More 

Philaster,

or Love Lies a-Bleeding

NOW PLAYING through APRIL 6

Blackfriars Premiere. Two love triangles dominate this beautiful, sexy, troubling, and surprising romance.  More 

Dido, Queen of Carthage

MARCH 14 TO APRIL 7

Blackfriars Premiere.  Part Antony and Cleopatra, part A Midsummer Night's Dream, and part The Tempest - Dido, Queen of Carthage is Marlowe's ravishing take on Virgil's Aeneid.   More 

The Winter's Tale

Shakespeare's magnificent late play is a roller-coaster ride from romance to tragedy to comedy and finally to a place of transcendent beauty that few other works of art have ever gone.  More 

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

John Ford's brilliant re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet leads audiences deep into a story of passion, lust, vengeance, greed, incest, and murder.  More 

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare's mischievous comedy of lovers, heroes, fairies, and rude mechanicals is his tribute to humankind's power of imagination.  More 

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