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Actors' Shakespeare Project, Somerville, Massachusetts
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare), November 15–December 17, 2017
Richard III (William Shakespeare), February 7–March 11, 2018
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), April 11–May 6, 2018
African-American Shakespeare Company, San Francisco, California
Cinderella, December 22–24, 2017
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams), March 4–18, 2018
Richard III (William Shakespeare), June 16–July 1, 2018
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, Alabama
The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams), to November 5, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), November 19–December 25, 2017
The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen), January 6–February 3, 2018
Fly (Trey Ellis, Ricardo Khan), January 26–February 11, 2018
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), February 22–May 6, 2018
The Miracle Worker (William Gibson), March 3–May 6, 2018
Bear Country (Mike Vigilant), March 9–25, 2018
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), April 20–May 6, 2018
Annie (Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, Martin Charmin), July 4–15, 2018
Starstruck (Lucile Lichtblau), July 20–August 5, 2018
all for One productions, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Sense & Sensibility (Kate Hamill), November 10–19, 2017
David (Sam Ward), February 16–25, 2018
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett, Sylvia Ashby), April 20–29, 2018
American Players Theatre, Spring Green, Wisconsin
A View from the Bridger (Arthur Miller), to October 22, 2017
The Creditors (August Strindberg, David Greig), November 2–19, 2017
American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia
Love's Labor's Lost (William Shakespeare), to November 24, 2017
Peter and the Starcatcher (Rick Elice, Wayne Barker), to November 25, 2017
Henry VI, Part 3 (William Shakespeare), to November 25, 2017
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), to November 26, 2017
Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some) (John K. Alvarez, Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald), November 29–December 26, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), December 1–27, 2017
Antonio's Revenge (John Marston), March 21–April 5, 2018
The Way of the World (William Congreve), March 1–April 6, 2018
Hamlet (William Shakespeare), January 19–April 7, 2018
Richard II (William Shakespeare), January 20–April 7, 2018
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard), February 8–April 8, 2018
Equivocation (Bill Cain), April 25–June 8, 2018
Macbeth (William Shakespeare), to June 9, 2018 [including tour]
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen), to June 9, 2018 [including tour]
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare), to June 10, 2018 [including tour]
American Stage, St. Petersburg, Florida
The Royale (Marco Ramirez), to October 22, 2017
In the Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi (Rudyard Kipling, Y. York), October 21–22, 2017
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), November 8–December 10, 2017
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Joe Landry), December 16–24, 2017
A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry), January 24–February 18, 2018
Marjorie Prime (Jordan Harrison), March 7–April 1, 2018
The Producers (Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan), April 18–May 13, 2018
Strait of Gibraltar (Andrea Lepcio), May 23–June 17, 2018
Bad Jews (Joshua Harmon), July 11–August 5, 2018
Annapolis Shakespeare Company, Annapolis, Maryland
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), to October 29, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), November 25–December 31, 2017
Blith Spirit (Noel Coward), January 26–February 25, 2018
The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams), March 16–April 15, 2018
Kiss Me Kate (Cole Porter, Samuel Spewack, Bella Spewack), May 4–June 3, 2018
Love's Labour's Lost (William Shakespeare), July 2018
The Miser (Molière), May 15–September 26, 2018
Aquila Theatre, New York, New York
Sense & Sensibility (Jane Austen), 2017–2018 season tour
Hamlet (William Shakespeare), 2017–2018 season tour
Native Gardens (Karen Zacarías), to October 22, 2017
The Price (Arthur Miller), to November 5, 2017
The Pajama Game (George Abbot, Richard Bissell, Richard Adler, Jerry Ross), October 27–December 24, 2017
Nina Simone: Four Women (Christina Ham), November 10–December 24, 2017
Sovereignty (Mary Kathryn Nagle), January 12–February 18, 2018
The Great Society (Robert Schenkkan), February 2–March 11, 2018
Hold These Truths (Jeanne Sakata), February 23–April 8, 2018
Two Trains Running (August Wilson), March 30–April 29, 2018
Snow Child (John Strand, Bob Banghart, Georgia Stitt), April 13–May 20, 2018
Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, Conway, Arkansas
The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare), June 8–July 8, 2018
Henry IV, Part 1 (William Shakespeare), June 8–July 8, 2018
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), June 8–July 8, 2018
My Fair Lady (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe), June 8–July 8, 2018
Atlanta Shakespeare Company/The New American Shakespeare Tavern, Atlanta, Georgia
Macbeth (William Shakespeare), to October 29, 2017
Arden of Faversham (Anonymous/William Shakespeare), November 13–17, 2017 [Resurgens Theatre Company]
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), November 2–26, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), November 30–December 23, 2017
The Comedy of Errors (William Shakespeare), January 4–28, 2018
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), February 1–March 3, 2018
Barrymore (William Luce), March 9–25, 2018
A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood), April 9–13, 2018 [Resurgens Theatre Company]
Love's Labour's Lost (William Shakespeare), March 31–April 22, 2018
Richard II (William Shakespeare), April 28–May 13, 2018
King John (William Shakespeare), May 19–June 3, 2018
The Australian Shakespeare Company, Melboourne, Australia
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame), December 22, 2017–January 28, 2018
Tinkerbell and the Dream Fairies, December 29, 2017–January 28, 2018
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), January 4–28, 2018
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), December 21, 2017–March 3, 2018
Babes With Blades Theatre Company, Chicago, Illinois
The Good Fight (Anne Bertram), January–February, 2018
The Lady Demands Satisfaction (Arthur M. Jolly), 2017–2018 season.
The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory, Baltimore, Maryland
The Sea Voyage (John Fletcher, Philip Massinger), November 3–19, 2017
Mementos Mori (Manual Cinema), October 18–21, 2017 [Next Wave Festival]
/peh-LO-tah/ (Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Tommy Shepherd), October 18–21, 2017 [Next Wave Festival]
State of Siege (Albert Camus), November 2–4, 2017 [Next Wave Festival]
Man to Man (Manfred Karge, Alexandra Wood), November 7–11, 2017 [Next Wave Festival]
A Billion Nights on Earth (Thaddeus Phillips, Steven Dufala), November 15–18, 2017 [Next Wave Festival]
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand, Toneelgroep Amsterdam), November 28–December 2, 2017 [Next Wave Festival]
Sleep (Haruki Murakami, Naomi Lizuka), November 29–December 2, 2017 [Next Wave Festival]
Suddenly (Etgar Keret), December 6–9, 2017 [Next Wave Festival]
Farmhouse/Whorehouse: An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor, December 12–16, 2017 [Next Wave Festival]
The Magic City (Edith Nesbit), February 9–11, 2018
A Fool's Errand (Jamie Adkins), March 24–25, 2018
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, Vancouver, British ColumbiaAs You Liket It (William Shakespeare), June 6–September 22, 2018
Macbeth (William Shakespeare), June 6–September 22, 2018
Timon of Athens (William Shakespeare), June 6–September 22, 2018
Lysistrata (Aristophanes), June 6–September 22, 2018
Bards of Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
The Tempest (William Shakespeare), November 10–12, 2017
The Bard's Town, Louisville, Kentucky
The Kings of Christmas (Doug Schutte), December 7–23, 2017
Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie), November 11–December 23, 2017
Boston University Shakespeare Society, Boston, Massachusetts
SceneFest, November 11, 2017
Romeo, You Idiot, November 16–18, 2017
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard), December 7–9, 2017
Brave Spirits, Alexandria, Virginia
Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlowe), October 26–November 11, 2017
Coriolanus (William Shakespeare), January 31–February 25, 2018
The Trojan Women Project (adapted from Euripides), January 31–February 25, 2018
Richard II (William Shakespeare), 2020
Henry IV, Part 1 (William Shakespeare), 2020
Henry IV, Part 2 (William Shakespeare), 2020
Henry V (William Shakespeare), 2020
Henry VI, Part 1 (William Shakespeare), 2020
Henry VI, Part 2 (William Shakespeare), 2020
Henry VI, Part 3 (William Shakespeare), 2020
Richard III (William Shakespeare), 2020
California Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley, California
Quixote (Cervantes, Octavio Solis), June 13–July 1, 2018
Everybody (Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins), July 18–August 5, 2018
The War of the Roses (William Shakespeare), August 22–September 9, 2018
Black Odyssey (Marcus Gardley), September 25–October 7, 2018
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Baltimore, Maryland
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare), to October 29, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, Ian Gallanar), December 8–23, 2017
Red Velvet (Lolita Chakrabarti), February 2–25, 2018
The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare), March 9–April 7, 2018
Alice In Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, Eva Le Gallienne, Florida Friebus), April 27–May 27, 2018
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), June 22–July 29, 2018
Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare), to November 12, 2017
Red Velvet (Lolita Chakrabarti), December 1, 2017–January 21, 2018
Mary Stuart (Friedrich Schiller, Peter Oswald), February 21–April 15, 2018
Macbeth (William Shakespeare), April 25–June 24, 2018
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett), May 23–June 3, 2018
Children's Shakespeare Theatre, Palisades, New York
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare), November 10–18, 2017
Hopper Scenes: A Series of Vignettes Based on Edward Hopper Paintings (Diana Green, Dan Hanchrow), October 27–29, 2017
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati, OhioDracula (Steven Dietz), to November 4, 2017
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Laura Eason), November 17–December 9, 2017
Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and Then Some!) (Michael Carleton, James Fitzgerald, John K. Alvarez), December 21–31, 2017
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Todd Kreidler), January 26–February 17, 2018
Othello (William Shakespeare), March 2–24, 2018
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams), April 6–28, 2018
Noises Off! (Michael Frayne), May 18–June 9, 2018
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Fear and Misery in the Third Reich (Bertolt Brecht), November 13, 2017
Connecticut Free Shakespeare, Bridgeport, Connecticut
The Tempest (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
Creation Theatre, Oxford, England
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame), December 2–30, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), December 2, 2017–January 6, 2018
Crown City Theatre Company, North Hollywood, California
Somehere in the Middle (Gary Lamb), to October 22, 2017
Delaware Shakespeare Festival, Wilmington, Delaware
As You Like It (William Shakespeare), October 25–November 12, 2017
The EmilyAnn Theatre & Gardens, Wimberley, Texas
Thumbelina (Hans Christian Andersen), to October 22, 2017
The Diary of Anne Frank (Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett), October 27–November 19, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), November 25–December 17, 2017
Faction of Fools, Washington, D.C.
Foolish Fairytales, December 2017
The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov), Spring 2018
Fiasco Theater, New York, New York
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), November 29, 2017–January 6, 2018
First Folio Theatre, Oak Brook, Illinois
The Man-Beast (Joseph Zettelmaier), to November 5, 2017
Women in Jeopardy (Wendy MacLeod), January 24–February 25, 2018
Mary's Wedding (Stephen Massicotte), March 28–April 29, 2018
Shrew'd (William Shakespeare, David Rice, Michael Keefe), July 11–August 19, 2018
Folger Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Antony and Cleopatra (Robert Richmond), to November 19, 2017
The Way of the World (William Congreve, Theresa Rebeck), January 9–February 11, 2018
The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare), March 13–April 22, 2018
Saint Joan (George Bernard Shaw), May 12–June 3, 2018
Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller), to October 22, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, Michael Wilson), November 16–December 31, 2017
Jefferson's Garden (Timberlake Wertenbaker), January 19–February 11, 2018
The Wiz (William F. Brown, Charlie Smalls), March 9–May 12, 2018
4615 Theatre Company, Bethseda, Maryland
Electra (Sophocles), October 20–November 4, 2017
Waxing West (Saviana Stanescu), January 19–February 10, 2018
GableStage at the Biltmore, Coral Gables, FloridaBecoming Dr. Ruth (Mark St. Germain), November 25–December 23, 2017
If I Forget (Steven Levenson), February 3–March 4, 2018
Gloria (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins), April 7–May 6, 2018
I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Halley Feiffer), June 9–July 8, 2018
White Guy On the Bus (Bruce Graham), to September 9, 2018
[To Be Announced], October 13–November 11, 2018
Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival, Allendale, Michigan
The Wonder of Will: This is your Afterlife!, to November 3, 2017 [Bard to Go tour]
Great Lakes Theater, Cleveland, Ohio
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), to November 5, 2017
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, Peter Parnell), to November 5, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, Gerald Freedman), November 25–December 23, 2017
Misery (Stephen King, William Goldman), Februarty 16–March 11, 2018
Macbeth (William Shakespeare), March 30–April 15, 2018
Beehive: The '60s Musical (Larry Gallagher), May 4–20, 2018
Great River Shakespeare Festival, Winona, Minnesota
All's Well that Ends Well (William Shakespeare), June 22–August 5, 2018
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), June 22–August 5, 2018
Venus in Furt (David Ives), June 22–August 5, 2018
Shakespeare in Love (Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, Lee Hall, Paddy Cunneen), June 22–August 5, 2018
The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project, New York, New York
Pericles: Born in a Tempest (William Shakespeare, Jordan Reeves), November 2–18, 2017
Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MinnesotaRomeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), to October 28, 2017
Watch on the Rhine (Lillian Hellman), to November 5, 2017
Blithe Spirit (Noël Coward), November 25, 2017–January 14, 2018
Indecent (Paula Vogel), February 17–March 24, 2018
Familiar (Danai Gurira), March 10–April 14, 2018
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Todd Kreidler), April 7–May 27, 2018
An Enemy of the People (Kia Corthron), April 28–June 3, 2018
West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim), June 16–August 26, 2018
The Legend of Georgia McBride (Matthew Lopez), July 14–August 26, 2018
Hamlet Isn't Dead, New York, New York
Merry Wives of Windsor (William Shakespeare), Winter 2017
Hamletscenen, Kronborg Castle, Denmark
Shakespeare Festival, August 1–24, 2018
Harrisburg Shakespeare Company, Gamut Theatre Group, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams), November 4–26, 2017
Our Town (Thornton Wilder), February 10–25, 2018
Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, Kansas City, Missouri
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), June 12–July 1, 2018
Hudson Shakespeare Company, Jersey City, New Jersey
Macbeth (William Shakespeare), to October 29, 2017
The Course of True Love… (William Shakespeare, Noelle Ciccarelli, Jon Ciccarelli), February 2018
Independent Shakespeare Company, Los Angeles, California
Letters From Home (Kalean Ung, Chinary Ung), November 10–18, 2018
A Christmas Carol with Charles Dickens (Charles Dickens), December 7–23, 2017
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
Love's Labour's Lost (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
Kentucky Shakespeare, Louisville, Kentucky
Titus Andronicus (William Shakespeare), to October 31, 2017
Hamlet (William Shakespeare), January 22–February 9, 2018
Kingsmen Shakespeare Company, Thousand Oaks, California
The Two Noble Kinsmen (William Shakespeare, John Fletcher), June 29–July 15, 2018
Othello (William Shakespeare), July 20–August 5, 2018
Laboratory Theater of Florida, Fort Myers, Florida
Veronica's Room (Ira Levin), October 20–November 4, 2017
An Act of God (David Javerbaum), November 17–December 9, 2017
Crimes of the Heart (Beth Henley), January 5–20, 2018
The Way We Get By (Neil LaBute), February 2–18, 2018
Chip and Gus (John Ahlin, Christopher Patrick Mullen), February 23–25, 2018
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 (John Bishop), March 9–31, 2018
Visiting Mr. Green (Jeff Baron), April 13–28, 2018
Lantern Theater Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Craftsman (Bruce Graham), November 9–December 10, 2017
Copenhagen (Michael Frayn), Janaury 11–February 11, 2018
The Tempest (Charles McMahon), March 15–April 22, 2018
Don't Dress for Dinner (Marc Camoletti, Robin Hawdon), May 24–June 24, 2018
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
Sylvester: or the Widked Uncle (Georgette Heyer, Christina Calvet), to October 29, 2017
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe, October 31, 2017
Arnie the Doughnut (Laurie Keller, Frances Limoncelli, George Howe), October 21–November 26, 2017
A Child's Christmas in Wales and A Christmas Memory (Dylan Thomas and Truman Capote), December 9, 2017
Montauciel Takes Flight (James E Grote, Russell Coutinho), January 13–February 18, 2018
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy, Jessica Wright Buha), February 16–April 8, 2018
You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy? (Shari Bell-Rehwoldt, David Slonim, Heather Currie, Derek Czaplewski, Laura McKenzie), March 17–April 22, 2018
Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman, Robert Kauzlaric), May 25–July 15, 2018
Lincoln Center Theater, New York, New York
Junk (Ayad Akhtar), to January 7, 2018
The Wolves (Sarah DeLappe), November 1, 2017–January 7, 2018
My Fair Lady (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe), from March 22, 2018
Lit Moon Theatre Company, Santa Barbara, California
A Doll's House (Henrik Ibssen), January 4–13, 2018
Livermore Shakespeare Festival, Livermore, California
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde), June 28–July 15, 2018
The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare), July 14–29, 2018
Long Beach Shakespeare Company, Long Beach, California
Old Time Radio Horror Classics, to October 29, 2017
The Wakefield Second Shepherds Play, November 24–December 17, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), December 21–23, 2017
The Media Theatre, Media, Pennsylvania
Carousel (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers), to October 22, 2017
Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Allen Menken, Howard Ashman, Rim Rice, Linda Wolverton), November 15, 2017–January 14, 2018
Next to Normal (Tom Kitt, Brian Yorkey), January 31–February 25, 2018
Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Jackson and Canton, Michigan
Ichabod (Joseph Zettelmaier), October 28, 2017
The Tempest (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
Measure for Measure (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
The Rover (Aphra Behn), Summer 2018
Millbrook Playhouse, Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
Madcap Musical Murder Mystery, October 20–29, 2018
The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hamlet (William Shakespeare), November 3–5, 2017
Montford Park Players, Asheville, North Carolina
Othello (William Shakespeare), November 3–18, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), December 2–17, 2017
National Players touring company, Olney, Maryland
Othello (William Shakespeare), to May 2018 [tour]
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald), to May 2018 [tour]
Alice in Wonderlan (Lewis Carroll, Natsu Onoda Power), to May 2018 [tour]
National Theatre, London, England
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë), to Octeber 21, 2017
Follies (James Goldman, Stephen Sondheim), to January 3, 2018
Beginning (David Eldridge), to November 14, 2017
Saint George and the Dragon (Rory Mullarkey), to December 2, 2017
Jekyll & Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson, Evan Placey), to December 6, 2017
Othello (William Shakespeare), to December 8, 2017
Oslo (J.T. Rogers), to December 30, 2017 [Harold Pinter Theatre]
Barber Shop Chronicles (Inua Ellams), November 20, 2017–January 9, 2018
Amadeus 2018 (Peter Shaffer), January 11–February 17, 2018
Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen), to March 3, 2018
Network (Paddy Chayefsky, Lee Hall), November 4, 2017–March 24, 2018
Pinocchio (Dennis Kelly, Leigh Harline, Ned Washington, Paul J. Smith) December 1, 2017–April 7, 2018
Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare), 2018
War Horse (Michael Morpurgo, Nick Stafford), to January 26, 2019 [UK tour]
Nebraska Shakespeare, Omaha, Nebraska
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), to October 28, 2017 [On Tour]
Richard II (William Shakespeare), November 19, 2017
King John (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
New Fortune Theatre Company, San Diego, California
The Poe Show (Edgar Allan Poe), October 30, 2017
New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, New Orleans, Louisiana
The Tempest (William Shakespeare), January 10–19, 2018
New Victory Theater, New York, New York
The Young King (Oscar Wilde), to October 22, 2017
A Sky for the Bears (Teatro Gioco Vita) November 10–19, 2017
Marmalade (Claire Parsons) November 10–19, 2017
The Migration (Jacob Lawrence) November 10–26, 2017
Jason Bishop: Believe in Magic December 1–30, 2017
A Sick Day for Morris McGee (Philip C. Stead), January 15–28, 2018
Undesirable Elements (Ping Chong), January 13–21, 2018
Bromance (Barely Methodical Troupe), February 9–25, 2018
Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (Abridged), (Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor), March 2–11, 2018
Black Beauty (Andy Manley, Shona Reppe), March 16–25, 2018
Air Play (Acrobuffos), March 30–April 15, 2018
Seedfolks (Paul Fleischman, Sonja Parks), May 4–11, 2018
Pss Pss (Compagnia Baccalà), May 19–20, 2018
Rennie Harris: Funkedified June 1–10, 2018
Panda's Home (Compagnia TPO, Teatro Metastasio Di Prato, TONG Production), June 7–17, 2018
Next Stop Theatre Company, Herndon, Virginia
Assassins (Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman), October 19–November 12, 2017
45 Plays for 45 Presidents (Andy Bayiates, Sean Benjamin, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Chloe Johnston, Karen Weinberg), January 11–February 4, 2018
Godspell (John-Michael Tebelak, Stephen Scwartz), March 1–April 1, 2018
The Crucible (Arthur Miller), May 24–June 17, 2018
Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Akron, Ohio
Camelot (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe), December 1–17, 2017
Scapin (Moliére), March 2–18, 2018
King Charles III (Mike Bartlett), April 6–22, 2018
The Old Globe, San Diego, California
Benny & Joon (Kirsten Guenther, Nolan Gasser, Mindi Dickstein), to October 22, 2017
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (James Lecesne), to October 29, 2017
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), November 11–19, 2017
Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (Timothy Mason, Mel Marvin, Jack O'Brien), November 4–December 24, 2017
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde), January 27–March 4, 2018
Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov), February 10–March 11, 2018
American Mariachi (José Cruz González), March 23–April 29, 2018
The Wanderers (Anna Ziegler), April 5–May 6, 2018
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Ursula Rani Sarma), May 12–June 17, 2018
Native Gardens (Karen Zacarías), May 26–June 24, 2018
Olney Theatre Center, Olney, Maryland
In the Heights (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes), to October 22, 2017
Our Town (Thornton Wilder), to November 12, 2017
Annie (Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, Martin Charmin), November 8–December 31, 2017
Click, Clack, Moo (Theatreworks USA), February 3–4, 2018
Aubergine (Julia Cho), February 7–March 4, 2018
Every Brilliant Thing (Duncan MacMillan, Jonny Donahoe), February 28–March 25, 2018
The Ugly Duckling (Virginia Rep On Tour), April 14–15, 2018
The Crucible (Arthur Miller), April 18–May 20, 2018
Dragons Love Tacos (Theatreworks USA), May 19–20, 2018
The Invisible Hand (Ayad Akhtar), May 9–June 10, 2018
On the Town (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jereome Robbins), June 20–July 22, 2018
The Pirates of Penzance (W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan), July 11–August 18, 2018
H.M.S. Pinafore (W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan), July 11–August 18, 2018
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Oregon
Henry IV, Part One (William Shakespeare), to October 28, 2017
Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (Jiehae Park), to October 28, 2017
UniSon (August Wilson, UNIVERSES), to October 28, 2017
Off the Rails (Randy Reinholz), to October 28, 2017
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare), to October 29, 2017
Shakespeare in Love (Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, Lee Hall), to October 29, 2017
Henry IV, Part Two (William Shakespeare), to October 29, 2017
Othello (William Shakespeare), February–October, 2018
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, Kate Hamill), February–October, 2018
Henry V (William Shakespeare), February–October, 2018
Manahatta (Mary Kathryn Nagle), March–October, 2018
Oklahoma! (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II), April–October, 2018
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), June–October, 2018
The Book of Will(Lauren Gunderson), June–October, 2018
Love's Labour's Lost (William Shakespeare), June–October, 2018
Snow in Midsummer (Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig), July–October, 2018
The Way the Mountain Moved (Idris Goodwin), July–October, 2018
Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF, Orlando, Florida
Showtime for Shakespeare: A Magic Tree House Adventure (Jenny Laird, Will Osborne, Randy Courts), October 19–November 17, 2017
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle, Steven Canny, John Nicholson), to November 19, 2017
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Joe Landry), November 29–December 30, 2017
Native Gardens (Karen Zacaias), January 3–February 4, 2018
Twelft Night (William Shakespeare), February 21–March 23, 2018
Shakespeare In Love (Lee Hall, Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard), February 7–March 25, 2018
The Luckiest People (Meridith Friedman), March 28–29, 2018
PacRep Theatre, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CaliforniaAntony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare), October 19–November 5, 2017
Mamma Mia! (Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Catherine Johnson), November 16–December 23, 2017
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), to November 17, 2017 [The Linny Fowler WillPower Tour]
The Philadelphia Artists' Collective, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (anonymous), June 6–24, 2018
Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company, Grand Haven, Michigan
King Lear (William Shakespeare), November 4–December 3, 2017
PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, Kate Hamill), October 18–November 5, 2017
Dot (Coleman Domingo), November 22–December 10, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, William Leach), December 12–17, 2017
The Christians (Lucas Hnath), February 4–March 9, 2018
Tartuffe (Molière, David Ball), February 3–March 11, 2018
Leaving Eden (Mike Wiley, Laurelyn Dossett), April 4–22, 2018
Prenzie Players, Davenport, Iowa
All's Well that Ends Well (William Shakespeare), to October 24, 2017
The Public Theater, New York, New York
Measure for Measure (WIlliam Shakespeare), to October 29, 2017
Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda), to November 5, 2017 [Richard Rodgers Theatre]
Tiny Beautiful Things (Cheryl Strayed, Nia Vardalos), to November 12, 2017
Oedipus El Rey (Luis Alfaro), to November 12, 2017
Illyria (Richard Nelson), October 22–November 26, 2017
Office Hour (Julia Cho), October 17–December 3, 2017
The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare), November 26–December 17, 2017
Kings (Sarah Burgess), January 30–March 25, 2018
The Low Road (Bruce Norris), February 13–April 1, 2018
Henry V (William Shakespeare), April 23–May 13, 2018
Milima's Tale (Lynn Nottage), March 27–May 20, 2018
Fire in Dreamland (Rinne Groff), July 17–September 2, 2018
Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, St. Lucia, Australia
Bogga (Rob Pensalffini), November 8–18, 2017
Quill Theatre, Richmond, Virginia
For the Duration: Letters from Home, October 17, 2017
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), February 2–17, 2018
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), Spring, 2018
Titus Andronicus (William Shakespeare), June 1–24, 2018
As You Like It (William Shakespeare), July 6–29, 2018
Red Bull Theater, New York, New York
The Rover (Aphra Behn), November 13, 2017
Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe), December 11, 2017
Hernani (Victo Hugo, John Strand), January 15, 2018
Don Juan (Molière), February 12, 2018
The Alchemist (Ben Jonson), March 19, 2018
The Metromaniacs (David Ives), April 10–May 26, 2018
The Second Maiden's Tragedy (Thomas Middleton), April 16, 2018
The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Molière), May 14, 2018
The Clandestine Marriage (David Garrick, George Colman the Elder), June 18, 2018
Short New Play Festival, July 16, 2018
Riverside Theatre, Iowa City, Iowa
Circle Mirror Transformation (Annie Baker), October 27–November 12, 2017
Salt-Water Moon (David French), December 1–17, 2017
Opus (Michael Hollinger), January 19–February 11, 2018
Apples in Winter (Jennifer Fawcett), February 23–March 11, 2018
The Mountaintop (Katori Hall), April 13–29, 2018
Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon and London, England
Dido, Queen of Carthage (Christopher Marlowe), to October 28, 2017
Coriolanus (William Shakespeare), to November 18, 2017
Titus Andronicus (William Shakespeare), to January 19, 2018
Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare), to January 20, 2018
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare), to January 20, 2018
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, David Edgar), November 27, 2017–February 4, 2018
Imperium: The Cicero Plays (Robert Harris, Mike Poulton), November 16, 2017–February 10, 2018
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), November 2, 2017–February 24, 2018
Julius Caesar: First Encounters (William Shakespeare), February 2–March 24, 2018
Hamlet (William Shakespeare), January 26–March 31, 2018 [Tour]
Matilda (Roald Dahl, Dennis Kelly, Tim Minchen), to May 27, 2018 [Cambridge Theatre]
King Lear (William Shakespeare), May 23–June 9, 2018
The Fantastic Follies of Mrs. Rich or the Beau Defeated (Mary Pix), March 23–June 14, 2018
The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster), March 1–August 3, 2018
Miss Littlewood (Sam Kenyon), June 22–August 4, 2018
Macbeth (William Shakespeare), March 13–September 18, 2018
The Merry Wives of Windsor (William Shakespeare), August 4–September 22, 2018
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), April 21–September 21, 2018
The Rustic Mechanicals from the Vintage Theatre Company, Clarksburg, West Virginia
King Lear (William Shakespeare), to October 29, 2017
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco, California
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), to March 24, 2018 [tour]
Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse, Seattle, Washington
The World of Extreme Happiness (Frances Y-Chu Cowhig), to November 5, 2017
The Flight Before Xmas (Maggie Lee), December 1–24, 2017
Christmastown (Wayne Rawley), December 8–24, 2017
Vanishing Point (Rob Hartmann, Liv Cummins, Scott Keys), February 2–25, 2018
Ironbound (Martyna Majok), March 23–April 15, 2018
Hand to God (Robert Askins), May 11–June 3, 2018
Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle, Washington
The Government Inspector (Nikolai Gogol), October 24–November 19, 2017
Timon of Athens (William Shakespeare), January 9–February 4, 2018
The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare), March 20–April 15, 2018
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), March 1–May 31, 2018
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), March 1–May 31, 2018
Shakespeare in Love (Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, Lee Hall), May 2–June 3, 2018
Richard III (William Shakespeare), 2018–2019 season
Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, Massachusetts
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Lauren Gunderson, Margot Melcon), December 15–17, 2017
Shakespeare by the Sea, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Macbeth: The Shadow King (William Shakespeare, Jesse MacLean), October 20–November 5, 2017
Shakespeare Dallas, Dallas, Texas
The Comedy of Errors (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
Othello (William Shakespeare), Fall 2018
Shakespearemachine, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe), 2018
Macbeth (William Shakespeare), 2018
Shakespeare Miami, Miami, Florida
Hamlet (William Shakespeare), January 6–28, 2018
The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
As You Like It (William Shakespeare), October 20–25, 2017
Coriolanus (William Shakespeare), January 12–16, 2018
Women Beware Women (Thomas Middleton), February 23–27, 2018
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), May 4–8, 2018
Shakespeare's Globe, London, England
The Secret Theatre: The Dark Arts of Elizabeth's Spymaster (Anders Lustgarten), November 16–December 16, 2017
Apocalypse Meow (Meow Meow), December 20–31, 2017
Romantics Anonymous (Emma Rice, Christopher Dimond, Michael Kooman), October 20, 2017–January 6, 2018
All's Well that Ends Well (William Shakespeare), January 11–March 3, 2018
The Captive Queen (John Dryden), February 2–March 4, 2018
Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Max Richter), March 9–April 21, 2018
The Little Matchgirl and Other Happier Tales (Joel Horwood, Emma Rice), March 27–April 21, 2018
Shakespeare Republic, Australia
#LoveTheBard, Season One, shakespearerepublic.com/episodes/
#LoveTheBard, Season Two, shakespearerepublic.com/episodes/
Shakespeare Theatre Association
Conference 2018 at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, January 17–20, 2018
Conference 2019 at Prague Shakespeare Company, Czech Republic, January 2019
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.
The Collection and The Lover (Harold Pinter), to October 29, 2017
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), November 14–December 20, 2017
Hamlet (Michael Kahn), January 16–February 25, 2018
Noura (Heather Raffo), February 6–March 11, 2018
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett), April 18–May 20, 2018
Camelot (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe), May 22–July 1, 2018
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Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Madison, New Jersey
Shakespeare in Love (Marc Norman, Tom Stopard, Lee Hall, Paddy Cunneen), to November 12, 2017
It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Joe Landry), November 30–December 31, 2017
Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), November 15–December 23, 2017
Signature Theatre, Arlington, Virginia
An Act of God (David Javerbaum), to November 26, 2017
Crazy for You (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Ken Ludwig), November 7, 2017–January 14, 2018
4,380 Nights (Annalisa Dias), Janaury 16–February 18, 2018
Light Years (Robbie Schaefer), February 6–March 4, 2018
John (Annie Baker), April 3–29, 2018
Girlfriend (Todd ALmond, Matthew Sweet), April 17–June 10, 2018
The Scottsboro Boys (John Kander, Fred Ebb, David Thompson), May 22–July 1, 2018
Southwest Shakespeare Company, Mesa, Arizona
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas, Ken Ludwig), to October 28, 2017
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), December 1–3, 2017
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), January 12–27, 2018
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, Kate Hamill), February 16–March 10, 2018
Henry IV, Part One (William Shakespeare), March 23–April 7, 2018
Stanford Shakespeare Company, Palo Alto, California
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), Winter 2018
Pericles (William Shakespeare), Spring 2018
St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York
People, Places & Things (Duncan MacMillan), October 19–November 19, 2017
Ballyturk (Enda Walsh), January 9–28, 2018
Returning to Reims (Didier Eribon), February 4–25, 2017
The Fall (The Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town), March 8–25, 2018
Rufus Wainwright: Northern Stars, April 19–20, 2018
The Birds (Aristophanes), May 2–13, 2018
Labapoalooza!, June 26–July 1, 2018
Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), to October 21, 2017
HMS Pinafore (W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan), to October 21, 2017
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), to October 21, 2017
The School For Scandal (Richard Brinsely Sheridan), to October 21, 2017
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson), to October 22, 2017
Guys and Dolls (Damon Runyon, Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling), to October 29, 2017
The Tempest (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
Coriolanus (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
Comedy of Errors (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
The Music Man (Meredith Wilson, Franklin Lacy), Summer 2018
The Rocky Horror Show (Richard O'Brien), Summer 2018
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee, Christopher Sergel), Summer 2018
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Eugene O'Neill), Summer 2018
An Ideal Husband (Oscar Wilde), Summer 2018
Napoli Millionaria (Eduardo De Filippo, John Murrell, Donato Santeramo), Summer 2018
Brontë: The World Without (Jordi Mand), Summer 2018
Paradise Lost (Ericn Shields), Summer 2018
Susquehanna Shakespeare Ensemble, North East, Maryland
Hamlet (William Shakespeare), to October 21, 2017
Sweet Tea Shakespeare, Fayetteville, North Carolina
A Midsummer Night's Lit, October 27–November 3, 2017
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte, Jessica Osnoe), April 26–May 6, 2018
Synetic Theater, Arlington, Virginia
The Adventures of Peter Pan (J.M. Barie), October 18–November 19, 2017
Hansel and Gretel, December 1–23, 2017
The Trial (Franz Kafka), January 17–February 18, 2018
Titus Andronicus (William Shakespeare), April 25–May 27, 2018
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum), July 11–August 12, 2018
Taffety Punk, Washington, D.C.
In the Belly of the Whale (Georgette Kelly), February 2–24, 2018
Don Juan (Molière, Stephen Wadsworth), April 6–21, 2018
Ten Thousand Things Theatre Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Electra (Euripedes), to November 5, 2017
Park and Lake (Kira Obolensky), February 16–March 11, 2018
The Good Person of Szechwan (Bertolt Brecht), May 10–June 3, 2018
Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, Texas
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare), October 30–November 18, 2017 [tour]
Shakespeare's Greatest Hits, October 30–November 18, 2017 [tour]
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Joe Landry), December 8–10, 2017
Love's Labour's Lost (William Shakespeare), June 28–July 28, 2018
Tartuffe (Molière), June 29–July 28, 2018
King John (William Shakespeare), June 30–July 29, 2018
110 in the Shade (N. Richard Nash, Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt), July 1–July 29, 2018
Theater at Monmouth, Monmouth, Maine
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), to October 28, 2017 [Tour]
The Santaland Diaries (David Sedaris, Joe Montello), November 23–December 3, 2017
Richard III (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
Pride@Prejudice (Daniel Elihu Kramer), Summer 2018
Enchanted April (Matthew Barber), Summer 2018
Dial "M" For Murder (Frederick Knott), Summer 2018
The True Story of Little Red (Dawn McAndrews), Summer 2018
Pirates of Penzance (Arthur Sullivan, W.S. Gilbert), Fall
Theatre for a New Audience, Brooklyn, New York
Marcel (Jos Houben, Marcello Magni) and The Art of Laughter (Jos Houben), October 27–November 19, 2017
He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box (Adrienne Kennedy), January 18–February 11, 2018
The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare), March 13–April 15, 2018
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), May 10–May 17, 2018
Theatreworks, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Wild Honey (Michael Frayn), October 19–November 5, 2017
The Santaland Diaries (David Sedaris), November 30–December 23, 2017
Trouble in Tahiti (Leonard Bernstein), February 22–March 4, 2018
Oklahmoa! (Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers), February 15–March 11, 2018
Peer Gynt (Henrik Ibsen), April 5–15, 2018
Amadeus (Peter Shaffer), April 26–May 13, 2018
Yerma (Federico García Lorca, Héctor Álvarez), October 27–December 10. 2017
Titan Theatre Company, Queens, New York
Richard III (William Shakespeare), to October 29, 2017
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), December 8–22, 2017
Medea (Euripides), February 16–25, 2018
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), April 6–22, 2018
Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), to October 21, 2017
William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (Abridged), Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor), to October 21, 2017
The Tavern (George M. Cohen), to October 21, 2017
Henry VI Part One (William Shakespeare), Summer-Fall 2018
The Merry Wives of Windsor (William Shakespeare), Summer-Fall 2018
The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare), Summer-Fall 2018
Big River (William Hauptman, Roger Miller), Summer-Fall 2018
The Liar (David Ives), Summer-Fall 2018
The Foreigner (Larry Shue), Summer-Fall 2018
Othello (William Shakespeare), Summer-Fall 2018
Pearl’s in the House (Art Manke), Summer-Fall 2018
Valley Shakespeare Festival, Shelton, Connecticut
Macbeth (William Shakespeare), 2018 tour
Vermont Shakespeare Festival, North Hero, Vermont
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare), Summer 2018
WSC Avant Bard, Arlington, Virginia
Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight (Lauren Gunderson), to November 19, 2017
Scripts in Play Festival, November 27–December 17, 2017
The Gospel at Colonus (Lee Breuer, Bob Telson), February 22–March 25, 2018
The Tempest (William Shakespeare), May 31–July 8, 2018
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