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…the more it wants to get out. Public dates for Madison Shakespeare Company’s Scandals, coming soon.

The planned production of All’s Well That Ends Well has been postponed to a future season. In its place, MSC plans to perform a collection of classic short plays in the Edgewood College Amphitheater. Details to come as they are … Continued

All Madison Shakespeare Company productions are rooted in a spirit of generosity and sharing from cast and crew, and are received gratefully by the producers. So from that standpoint Sudden Shakespeare: Hamlet isn’t different than any other MSC presentation. Yet … Continued

Prince Hamlet has just one day to settle all scores. And you have just one chance to see him, and the intensely hard working cast and crew coming together to make it all happen. Sudden Shakespeare: Hamlet is February 29 … Continued

If you didn’t catch Sudden Shakespeare: Hamlet director Lennox Forrester and producer Jason Compton on WORT-FM’s Eight O’Clock Buzz this morning, listen to the replay now on the MSC YouTube channel. It’s very quotable, right from the jump when host … Continued

Director Lennox Forrester took some time out from planning Sudden Shakespeare: Hamlet (oh yes, there’s planning… just not much rehearsal!) to explain just what it means to take on such a monumental play so rapidly. Tickets are selling fast! Get … Continued

Rebecca Ribley of WKOW-TV’s Wake Up Wisconsin graciously hosted MSC performers Leigha Vilen and Jason Compton in studio this morning, complete with a special performance of the besotted Jailer’s Daughter from Two Noble Kinsmen. Hear them discuss why the third … Continued

MSC invites you to share this sneak peek into A Valentine’s Affair 2020, when we will bring eight love stories by William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and Christopher Marlowe to life. Three nights. Two stages. One unforgettable Valentine’s Affair. Tickets available … Continued

Brighten a drab winter day with the first batch of the 2020 edition of our special Shakespeare (and Shakes-peer) Valentines. Then catch each of these characters in their natural element, February 13-15 for A Valentine’s Affair 2020. Are you following … Continued

Tia Tanzer is taking her preparation for Sudden Shakespeare: Hamlet so seriously, she’s enacting Laertes’ murder plot in Elsinore (Kronborg) Castle. Unrehearsed. Not unprepared. Tickets on sale now for this one-night only event, February 29 2020.