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When Sloshed Shakespeare: Macbeth hits the Capital Brewery stage October 5 for the final outdoor performance of 2017, it will be with a significant casting change. After a whirlwind year with Madison Shakespeare Company, Tia Tanzer has moved out of … Continued

Director Francisco C. Torres announces the cast of Madison Shakespeare Company’s Henry the Fourth, the center of the Shakespeare’s Rarer Monsters season at the Bartell Theatre, presented February 9-17, 2018, in the Evjue Stage. Tickets available now. Prince Hal – Brian McGowan … Continued

Madison Shakespeare Company will present a pop-up performance at 4 PM Sunday September 24, as part of the September 2017 installment of Bike the Art. For full tour details, see the event listing on wortfm.org or Facebook. The event is … Continued

We’re going back to where it all started. The final outdoor performance of the 2017 season is coming to Capital Brewery on Thursday October 5 at 6 PM, when Sloshed Shakespeare: Macbeth returns to Capital Brewery. Featuring the return of … Continued

Auditions for Henry the Fourth Part 1 will be held September 11-12 at the Bartell Theatre. Please see the audition page for details.

Director Francisco C. Torres announces the cast of Edward the Fourth, a Madison Shakespeare Company staged reading, performing August 17, 7 PM at Arts + Literature Laboratory: Mary Elizabeth Wallin – Jane Shore Ben Seidensticker – Edward Lennox Forrester – … Continued

To assemble our staged reading of Edward the Fourth, we had to start with a poorly scanned version of an 1842 text from London’s Shakespeare Society. Records are scanty about this kind of thing, but we feel pretty confident that … Continued

Our “Shakespeer” series begins Thursday July 20 at Arts + Literature Laboratory with a one-night-only staged reading of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe’s career was cut tragically short, but his Faustus is considered one of the highlights of the Elizabethan … Continued