Review: Henry 4.1 by Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project

by Michael Meigs
Published on November 07, 2026

Powerfully imagined theatre—the Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project, splitting instead of melding Shakespeare's narrative, surprises and astonishes and satisfies.

Stephanie and Mike Crugnola's Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project (WSSP) has put another of Will's finest histories through the Transmogrifier, once more with exciting results. They don't glue together noted classics as they did with their 2025 Caesar and Anthony and Cleopatra, honored both by the Austin Theatre Critics and the B Iden Payne council. This time they split Henry IV, Part I into three, dubbed it Henry 4.1, and are producing it with a cast …

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Review: Short Shakespeare - Three plays by Walking Shadow Shakespeare

by Michael Meigs
Published on March 12, 2026

Walking Shadow gleefully presented clever, thoughtful alt-plots and interpretations of Shakespeare familiars. A round of applause, please, especially for Steph Crugnola as Puck.

Energetic and inventive, Austin's recently founded Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project has the enthusiasm of your favorably remembered high school group of "theatre kids." WSSP participants and the producers Mike and Steph Crugnola are full adults, experienced, and invested in the voluminous canon of Shakespeare's works. WSSP isn't going to bore you by joining the endless round of the most obvious plays. I 've missed several of their innovative productions (listed at www.WalkingShadowShakespeare.com). And because I …

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Review: Caesar & Antony & Cleopatra by Walking Shadow Shakespeare

by Hannah Neuhauser
Published on November 16, 2025

Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project's two-fer becomes a brilliantly designed post-apocalyptic survival fantasy—one cool adaptation!

We are, but countrymen - a silent audience, witnessing the faults and plights of those who are in power, wielding our lives like grains of sand underneath someone’s foot. In Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project’s latest production Caesar + Antony + Cleopatra, director Stephanie Crugnola merges Shakespeare’s political tragedies Julius Caesar (1599) and Antony and Cleopatra (1607) into a post-apocalyptic survival fantasy. Marc Antony (Laura D’Eramo), warrior of Rome, must choose his allegiance – his lover …

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