Explore exotic Navarre! Love’s Labour’s Lost opens Friday!
Love’s Labour’s Lost tickets are onsale now. With the premiere of Shakespeare’s stunning battle-of-the-sexes comedy just around the corner, we’re thrilled to share this sneak peek captured by longtime MSC collaborator Benjamin Barlow in the gorgeous Madison Country Day School … Continued
A long road to Love’s Labour’s Lost!
Love’s Labour’s Lost is a personal favorite of MSC co-founder John Varda. So why did it take so long to perform it? We spent a lot of time being serious. MSC didn’t perform a single comedy for nearly five years! … Continued
2024-2025 Bartell Theatre indoor season
Madison Shakespeare Company’s first season as a Resident Company at the Bartell Theatre opens November 1, 2024 and continues through mid-May 2025. Tickets for all productions are onsale now through the Bartell Theatre website and box office. The presentations: The … Continued
How’d this “No Girls Allowed” business get started, anyway?
We found it! The painfully earnest post that kicked off the events of Love’s Labour’s Lost, revealed for the first time:
2024 rolls on with Shakespeare and science fiction!
The second half of the year brings the Madison Shakespeare Company premiere of a romantic comedy classic, and the United States premiere of a pioneering sci-fi dramedy. Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by Annie Jay, performs August 9-18 at Madison Country … Continued
Madison “Marlowe” Company news wrapup
The Wisconsin State Journal published a preview with images of Dido, Queen of Carthage from its final dress rehearsal, which can be read here. A WKOW 27 news crew stopped by the closing performance of Dido and filed this brief … Continued
A quick turn from tragedy to comedy!
Dido, Queen of Carthage is almost sold out this weekend! Check Madison Children’s Museum for available seats. And get ready for the “improved, fast-acting comedy formula” of Love’s Labour’s Lost, a Shakespeare comedy getting its long-awaited turn in the Madison … Continued
Dido, Queen of Carthage opens June 28, one weekend only!
The fall of Troy was just the beginning. Christopher Marlowe’s gripping supernatural romance Dido, Queen of Carthage is a beautiful reinterpretation of the early books of The Aeneid, but rarely performed. Only a unique collaboration between Madison Shakespeare Company and … Continued
A Shakespeare “sleepover”, an MSC first, and love in the beer garden!
Yes, as we write this it’s been snowing for hours. But we swear to you that outdoor theater season is just around the corner! On Friday April 12, Madison Shakespeare Company takes on a new Adult Swim theme, “Slumber Party”, … Continued
Call for Directors
Madison Shakespeare Company is now a Resident Company at the Bartell Theatre, meaning we will offer full-length programming year-round. We are now accepting proposals from directors for selected productions in 2024 and 2025. Please see the form below. If it … Continued