THE WINTER’S TALE
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
Director Elizabeth Swain ups the Act One drama, then enhances the Act Two froth in Antaeus Theatre Company’s splendidly performed 21st-century staging of William Shakespeare’s still-fresh-at-401 The Winter’s Tale.
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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Monday, November 20th, 2023Whether you love the entirety of the Porters of Hellgate’s All’s Well That Ends Well, or enjoy some parts of it more than others, will likely depend on how much of a William Shakespeare fan you are where this “problem comedy” is concerned.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Monday, October 16th, 2023
Nobody does William Shakespeare with more originality and flair than A Noise Within, case in point their dazzlingly designed and prodigiously performed re-envisioning of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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THE TEMPEST
Saturday, July 8th, 2023
An inspired concept and flawless execution make Antaeus Theatre Company’s The Tempest the most entertaining of summer treats, even for those who’d normally opt for a root canal over an evening of William Shakespeare.
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
A newly liberated Sicily provides a fresh new WWII-era time and place for American GI Benedick and Italian ragazza Beatrice to fall in love at not-quite-first sight in A Noise Within’s sparkling 2023 revival of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
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ALL IS TRUE, OR HENRY VIII
Monday, November 7th, 2022
Shakespeare aficionados will welcome the arrival of All Is True, or Henry VIII, aka the play even they probably didn’t know he (co)wrote, as well as the arrival of its gifted director as the new artistic head of the North Hollywood Shakespeareans who call themselves The Porters Of Hellsgate.
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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Set in the Eisenhower 1950s and featuring a Goodness Gracious Great Bunch of Top 40 oldies, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum’s The Merry Wives Of Windsor takes comedic flight as the inspired vision of director Ellen Geer, who’s not afraid to alter the text if it earns laughter to do Lucy and Ricky and Fred and Ethel proud.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Sunday, July 3rd, 2022
Director James Fowler and Open Fist Theatre Company discover astonishing new depth and meaning in a centuries-old classic by transposing William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from ancient Greece to the Antebellum South.
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