Adaptation

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.

Who do we become in darkness, unobserved? Inspired by texts from the Harlem Renaissance, the Left Bank, and the Mexican Revolution, this dark comedy follows groups of outsiders as they betray each other, make out, strip, kill, and discover just how badly they're capable of behaving.

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.