The Public Theater will kick off the 2016-17 season in September with a free Public Works musical adaptation of TWELFTH NIGHT, conceived by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub, with music and l…
Created by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub, the production will feature over 200 actors and community members.
In his program notes, Director Christopher Dwyer states there are good reasons why Shakespeare's play have stood the test of time, and "one is that the stories are so rich and accessible," a…
SHAKESPEARE UNDER ATTACK A comedy's brewing up in Santa Monica. Soon, winds will whip, distressed voices will call out and a ship's timbers will be shivering, cracking, and smashing against …
Belvoir's Twelfth Night or What you will is a joyous production that mourns unrequited love and celebrates the revelry and ridiculousness of Shakespeare's play. The actors' ensemble, dancing…
A noted Shakespeare comedy is told through the art of silence.
BY CARY GINELL The Rubicon Theatre Company’s Education and Outreach program enables youngsters as early as five years old to become acclimated to the theatrical experience through a va…
Reenvisioning "Twelfth Night" through millennial-tinted glasses, Coeurage Theatre Company's revival in Burbank transposes Shakespeare's plot and theme of cultural alienation into a contempor…
After his celebratory A Midsummer Night's Dream in 2010 and the joyous As You Like It in 2011, Eamon Flack will turn his magic touch for comedy to one of the Bard's finest delights, Twelf…
What an exciting prospect this play looked at first glance. Twelth Night, Shakespeare's comedy classic, performed solely by a team of London's most exciting comedians. Oh dear, what a terrif…
Fight in the Dog provide an entertaining if occasionally flat take on Shakespeare's comedy. This tale of mistaken identities is given new life by being performed by comedians, who show a gr…
In a word, exhilarating. Without a word, it was challenging but fascinating. Using my words, the group at Synetic Theater, those purveyors of movement, sight and sound, have now put on  t…
What is Shakespeare without his words? Answer: a rollicking good time! Synetic Theater, known for its dynamic and often wordless productions of Shakespeare and other classics, have another h…
Songwriter, arranger and performer Shaina Taub is having a banner 2016. The critically acclaimed music she wrote for, and performed, in Bill Irwin and David Shiner's Old Hats was released in…
His very name suggests "malevolence." But Malvolio, the nearest thing Shakespeare provided to an antagonist in "Twelfth Night," gets a chance to air his numerous grievances against the world…
"What other play culminates in such a frenzy of emotion and joy and love all in a moment on stage?"
Encore Stage & Studio; theatre by kids, for kids, presents a youthful revision of Twelfth Night. Adapted especially for Encore by Caroline Schreiber and Elizabeth Pringle, this beachy tw…
Seen together in repertory, Shakespeare's romantic comedy Twelfth Night and the tragic Macbeth are greater than the sum of their parts.
The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre is now running a sparkling, fast-paced revival of Twelfth Night. With stunning brilliance, Shakespeare turns the farce staple of mistaken identity into a…
In the intimate setting of the Hope Theatre, I feel this is a staging of a classic Shakespeare play that the bard would thoroughly have approved of. From interweaving through the audience, d…
Fringe Shakespeare can be terrible, brilliant and everything in between those two ends of the spectrum. The better productions are vivacious and effortlessly handle Shakespeare's language wh…
There are few plays in the Shakespearean canon as beloved as Twelfth Night. It's a comedy that uses mistaken identities, trickery, and a healthy dose of romance to captivate its audience. An…
Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Night, adapted and directed by Kirsten Kelly, is a fun and clever romp with deft direction, beautiful production values and talented actors. Shakespeare himself wo…
Shakespeare productions in churches are similar to those at the Globe: the ornateness of the environment is a set in itself that gives the show grandeur and importance. Scena Mundi's Twelfth…
Following the acclaimed success of their production last year of Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, Scena Mundi mark their own celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death wi…