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The Winter's Tale

NOW PLAYING through JUNE 16

Shakespeare's magnificent late play is a roller-coaster ride from romance to tragedy to comedy and finally to a place of transcendent beauty that few other works of art have ever gone.  More 

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

NOW PLAYING through JUNE 16

John Ford's brilliant re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet leads audiences deep into a story of passion, lust, vengeance, greed, incest, and murder. RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES. More  

A Midsummer Night's Dream

NOW PLAYING through JUNE 17

Shakespeare's mischievous comedy of lovers, heroes, fairies, and rude mechanicals is his tribute to humankind's power of imagination.  More 

The Merchant of Venice

STARTS JUNE 20

From Shylock’s unjust Venice to Portia’s golden Belmont, The Merchant of Venice is at once a comic love story and a passionate discourse on justice and mercy.  More 

The Lion in Winter

by James Goldman

STARTS JUNE 19

BLACKFRIARS PREMIERE.  Epic and intimate. Brilliantly funny and deeply moving.  The Lion in Winter plays out the spectacular strategies for power and love between two of England’s most formidable and most human rulers.  More 

The Two Gentlemen

of Verona

STARTS JULY 8

A gleeful look at love and a dramatic examination of friendship, Two Gents has one of Shakespeare’s most engaging comic heroines, one of his funniest clowns, and the best role ever for a dog.  More 

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Rory and Jaymie Cutaia of Middlebrook, Virginia

Pamela Fox and Dan Layman of Staunton, Virginia

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