Staging Shakespeare

Director Sam Gold reflects on the challenges and joys of reinterpreting a well-known story for Broadway and shares the creative process behind staging a Romeo and Juliet that feels relevant to a whole new generation of theatergoers.

It’s officially Christmas Carol season! See what’s playing at our Shakespeare Theater Partners around the country this December.

Austin Tichenor takes a look at Al Pacino’s new memoir, Sonny Boy. Pacino describes how central Shakespeare was to his development as a young actor.

Explore what’s playing at our Shakespeare Theater Partners around the country this November.

Washington National Opera’s Artistic Director Francesca Zambello interviews director, Brenna Corner, about Verdi’s opera inspired by Macbeth.

Read our round-up of October performances from Shakespeare theaters across the country.

Melanie Bender Martin explores how the Folger Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet, set in a DC metaverse, was equipped with political ads… in iambic pentameter.

Read our round-up of September performances from Shakespeare theaters across the country.

Read our round-up of August performances from Shakespeare theaters across the country.

Go behind the scenes with Artistic Director Barry Edelstein as San Diego’s Old Globe becomes one of less than a dozen American theaters who have performed the entire Shakespeare canon.

See what the Folger’s theater partners have onstage in July. What are you planning to see this month?

Across the US, June features plenty of Shakespeare, plus classic stories adapted by Mary Zimmerman, Ken Ludwig, Whitney White, Heidi Armbruster, and Luis Quintero. What are you seeing onstage this month?