Shakespeare

A collection of one act plays that satirize the history of entertainment from Shakespeare's experiments with language to David Mamet's searing, triumphant final piece of modern noir.

Better than Shakespeare! presents its inaugural production, a revisionist Much Ado About Nothing. New music, new intrigues, twists and turns… and aliens. Because we think The Bard could use a little help. Don’t you? We're calling it, Much Ado About Something. The Something is Aliens.

Star-Cross'd is a movement-oriented retelling of Shakespeare's most tragic love story: Romeo and Juliet. The Half-Shadow Players marry the haunting music of Florence + the Machine with the Bard's immortal text for a raw, visually stunning spin on the classic tale.

Romeo and Juliet, dead, wake up to find themselves stuck in their Personal Hell - forced to listen to WEST SIDE STORY music for eternity. To escape, they must suffer through a production of their life story performed by the other inhabitants of Hell - Shakespeare’s dead characters!

HAMLET MAX: Wm. Shakespeare's Hamlet told by 8 actors in 90 minutes, with animated, manga-style backgrounds in a post-apocalyptic setting. hamletmax.net

6-actor, 1-musician, 90-minute Twelfth Night; Shakespeare's most complexly hilarious comedy - complete with gender-swapping, breakneck quick-changes, and live, original music! Not your grandma's Shakespeare.