The Free Shakespeare in the Park show will examine Shakespeare’s look at power in Julius Caesar with a contemporary slant of women in traditionally male roles.

 Leopoldstadt is a stirring and epic story of love, family, and enduring bravery. In Vienna, the heart of European culture at the rise of the …

Mahabharata Tales is a new telling of the heroic story of ancient India developed by Austin Shakespeare artistic directorCiccolella. Austin actors, musicians and dancers will …

The Old Vic Bristol/National Theatre of Great Britain has devised a new, modern version of Jane Eyre. “This Jane is strong, feisty, and spunky,” said …

Two star-crossed lovers — and the stars do seem to conspire against them.Romeo (a Montague) and Juliet (a Capulet). Their families are enmeshed in a …

A STAGED READING FEATURING MARK PELLEGRINO OF TELEVISION'S SUPERNATURAL AND LOST   Review by Sabrina Wallace, Austin Broadway World, December 18, 2023  

Austin Shakespeare will debut a new adaptation by Michael Meigs of Corneille’s romantic tour de force retitled El Cid at the Long Center Nov. 10 – 26, …

   The four Shakespeare plays include 20-minute versions of: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, and Hamlet. Gwendolyn Kelso will direct all four comedies.     Austin Shakespeare Artistic …

The Real Thing is Tom Stoppard's exploration of fidelity/infidelity. Using a play-within-a-play mechanism, the play integrates issues of political anarchy in the politically charged atmosphere …

 Set in the 1950's during the apartheid era, South African playwright Athol Fugard’s Master Harold and the Boys  explores the challenges between a young white …

Explore the clever Jane Austen by entering her comic and romantic world of Sense & Sensibility. Two young sisters – marriageable – but with unique …

Coming up! With Austin Chamber Music Center & Michelle Schuman. With actors Gwendolyn Kelso, samuel grimes, Babs George, Cliff miller, Rick Roemer, lilly percifield, and …

Austin Shakespeare’s Free Shakespeare in Zilker Park returns to offer the famous romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream for four weekends May 4-May 29. The colorful outdoor story of …

Enjoy the emotion-packed charge and nostalgic laughter of Tennessee Williams’ memory play The Glass Menagerie, when Austin Shakespeare returns to the intimate Rollins Theatre. Journey …

The play is a psychological murder mystery with Agatha Christie at her cleverest. Christie, considered the best-selling novelist of all time and a record-breaking playwright, …

One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, Bollywood Twelfth Night will feature dances by Prakash Mohandas and songs by Austin singer/songwriter Nagavalli. “We will be celebrating our in-person …

Celebrating the antics of a comedy of manners, join Austin Shakespeare and its talented cast for the hilarious online reading of The Rivals by Richard …

Newly crowned Henry IV struggles to keep his throne against a huge rebellion. His son, Prince Hal, begins the play as a wild boy, but …

   A lve, online staged reading of William Gillette's Classic Sherlock Holmes with actress Helen Merino as the famous detective. Incriminating letters written by a …

    Things don't come any wilder than Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, morals, and morality! Jack and Algernon are two men that are …

A favorite for Austin audiences, the popular play, with costumes designed by Aaron Kubacak, was originally slated to appear on the Zilker Hillside Stage. “The …

Austin Shakespeare presents Ibsen’s acclaimed masterwork, Hedda, in a new adaptation by Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella. Set in 1950, this new production is inspired by Betty Friedan’s …

Famed Novelist Louisa May Alcott’s most rambunctious character, the beloved Jo March of Little Women, flouts convention and foils her author. The new play about …

  Austin Shakespeare brings one of Shakespeare’s most romantic of comedies with music from some of Austin’s talented songwriters in As You Like It, performed by …

 Six creative actors will bring to life scenes from the hero’s epic adventures in Austin Shakespeare’s new production of Homer’s The Odyssey at the Long Center’s Rollins Theatre.    …

Austin Shakespeare’s season will culminate in a staged reading of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan at ZACH Theatre on Sunday, August 25, playing The Whisenhunt at ZACH with an intimate …

Austin Shakespeare will bring the romance, comedy and dramatic clashes of The Merchant of Venice to the Beverly S. Sheffield Zilker Hillside Theater in May.   Produced in …

In 1930, British poet Flora Crewe travels to India. Flora is a thoroughly modern girl who has modeled for Modigliani, hobnobbed with communists, and been accused of obscenity …

“To whom should I complain? If I told them who would believe me?” says the young Isabella in a new translation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure by …

Austin Shakespeare Presents Tennessee Williams’ CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF November 16-December 2, 2018    Tennessee Williams’ personal favorite play, Cat on a Hot Tin …

   Franchelle S. Dorn & Robert Ramirez take the stage as Antony & Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s legendary story of the passionate romance that shook the world to …

Austin Shakespeare will transform the Beverly S. Sheffield Zilker Hillside Theater into the world of a classic ‘50s sitcom for their Free Shakespeare in the …

Austin Shakespeare presents a staged reading of Vita and Virginia, based on the letters between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Written by actress Eileen Atkins as …

 Austin Shakespeare brings Chekhov’s revolutionary play The Seagull to the Rollins Studio Theatre at the Long Center from February 7 – 25, 2018. This is the first time …

Austin Shakespeare kicks off the holiday festivities with Shakespeare’s popular romantic comedy Much Ado about NOTHING, running in the intimate Rollins Studio Theatre at The Long Center …

A fully-costumed staged reading with scenic projections of the modern classic where a flawed hero confronts adolescent sex and the hysteria of the Salem witch …

Sharron (Bower) Anderson returns to Austin with a staged reading of Lysistrata at the Spider House Ballroom for one night only: Sunday, August 27, 2017 …

Austin Shakespeare’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production is a rollicking and rambunctious fresh look at The Comedy of Errors from guest director, Robert Ramirez, head of …

Austin Shakespeare seats the audience in the round for Harold Pinter’s work at The Rollins Studio Theatre at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. This …

Join Austin Shakespeare for a Salon fundraiser featuring selections from David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre. Starring Ev Lunning, Jr. Hors d'oeuvres, dessert and champagne. …

Austin Shakespeare Brings Poetry and Music to the New Brentwood Social House Austin Shakespeare hosts an afternoon of free Story Reading & Singing with Austin Shakespeare for …

Austin Shakespeare brings Noel Coward’s classic comedy Present Laughter to the Rollins Studio Theatre at The Long Center for the Performing Arts from November 16, 2016 – December …

Austin Shakespeare is proud to announce its 2016 – 2017 season, which will kick off with a staged reading of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall (Part I only).  Mantel’s best-selling …

Austin Shakespeare, central Texas’ classical theater company, will collaborate with ACMC for the first time to create a music-filled production of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII at …

Now in its 32nd year of Free Shakespeare in Zilker Park, Austin Shakespeare      brings a professional production of a modern, military Macbeth facing unusual witches and …

The company will stage a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy in which four young lovers flee the adult world to the …

Medea by Euripides is a 2500-year-old classic that still resonates today with its modern–day complexities of power, marriage, families and politics. Medea will plunge the audience into the …

  Considered one of the most powerful plays ever written, A Streetcar Named Desire opened on Broadway and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  The play has since …

The Norman Conquests is a trilogy of plays written in 1973 by Alan Ayckbourn. The small scale of the drama is typical of Ayckbourn. There are only …

Austin Shakespeare, in collaboration with Armstrong Community Music School, has cast familiar Austin singing actors along with new ones for their concert version of Stephen …

Join us for a staged reading of Oscar Wilde's notorious novel of vanity, hedonism and fatal beauty. Featuring Cal Ussery, Brian Coughlin, Norman Blumensaadt, Susanne …

 From the battle of the sexes to the marriage of true minds, Austin Shakespeare transforms The Taming of the Shrew to the Austin of the …

This beautiful play reveals the love of poetry and the Victorian struggle of a "love that dare not speak its name." The Invention of Love …

Austin Shakespeare kicks off their official season this year with American poet Brian Hooker's acclaimed version of Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmund Rostand. Starring Marc …

In celebration of its 30th Free Shakespeare in Zilker Park, The City of Austin, Austin Parks and Recreation Department and Beverly S. Sheffield Zilker Hillside …

Spark notes: The King of Navarre and his three lords, Berowne, Longaville, and Dumaine, swear an oath to scholarship, which includes fasting and avoiding contact with …

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Wikipedia: Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. Originally published in the First Folio of 1623 (where it was …

Wikipedia: Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one …