Shakespeare Theatre Company - Theatrical Focus - Current and Recent Productions

Current and Recent Productions

Further information: Shakespeare Theatre Company production history

Resident theatre company pioneer Zelda Fichandler has stated that for theatre companies "repertory is destiny" - a theatre company acquires its audience by the productions it presents. Most of The Shakespeare Theatre Company's productions are from The Bard's canon. However each year up to half of the productions are classical works by other authors. The oldest has been Aeschylus's The Persians, the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre. The youngest plays include works by Tennessee Williams (Camino Real, Sweet Bird of Youth) and Harold Pinter (Old Times). The company has also produced modern interpretations of classical texts such as Mary Zimmerman's Argonautika (adapted from The Voyage of Jason and the Argonauts).

2013-2014 Season

Full stage production series

• Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim book by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 by William Shakespeare staged in revolving repertory
• Private Lives by Noël Coward

STC Presentations

• Mies Julie by Yael Farber­ based on Miss Julie by August Strindberg produced by the Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town in association with South African Theatre Association.
• Man in a Case Adapted from The Man in a Case & About Love by Anton Chekhov Featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov Produced by Baryshnikov Productions in association with ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann

2012-2013 Season

Full stage production series

• The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
• Hughie by Eugene O'Neill
• Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
• Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller translated and adapted by Robert Pinsky
• The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare

STC Presentations

• Black Watch, by Gregory Burke - produced by National Theatre of Scotland
• The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, by David Greig - produced by National Theatre of Scotland
• Les Liaisons dangereuses, by Christopher Hampton, directed by John Malkovich - produced by Théâtre de l'Atelier, in French with subtitles

2011-2012 Season

(Michael Kahn's 25th Anniversary )

Full stage production series

• The Heir Apparent by Jean-François Regnard translated by David Ives
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
• Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill
• The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
• The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

Musical in Concert series

• The Boys from Syracuse by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George Abbott
• Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Rock Opera, by John Guare, Mel Shapiro and Galt MacDermot

STC Presentations

• Fela! Directed & Choreographed by Bill T. Jones, Produced by Jay-Z, Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith
• John Hurt in Krapp's Last Tape from Ireland's Gate Theatre by Samuel Beckett