Auditions open for our 2025 shows!
Performers sought for Madison Shakespeare Company’s first two presentations of 2025: Sign up to audition for A Valentine’s Affair 2025. The ensemble has three openings. See the signup form for representative roles available. Auditions November 18-19 with performances in February … Continued
Final weekend of Love’s Labour’s Lost!
Last three chances to see MSC’s fast-paced, fresh, funny, 90 minute take on Love’s Labour’s Lost are here, Friday through Saturday August 16-18 at the Madison Country Day School amphitheater. Get your tickets now on Eventbrite before this classic goes … Continued
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