Join The Shakespeare Theatre for a one-night-only musical event-- Broadway standards and traditional Irish tunes (and perhaps even a few pop songs!)-- presented by Ciarán Sheehan and Gwen Eagleton. These Broadway veterans and New Jersey residents will take the stage to benefit the Theatre’s young artist education and training programs. A Dublin native, Sheehan began his career […]
This recently discovered and translated play by the Russian master provides a very special theatrical and literary gift for our audiences. This reading marks the first time the play will be heard in America! A special panel discussion with Nabokov experts will precede the reading.
This world premiere explores the extraordinary life of Mary Ann Evans — better known by her pen name George Eliot. An outcast living a socially unconventional life, Evans was forced to write under an assumed name, not only to escape having her work judged by virtue of her gender, but to avoid having it judged […]
Giradoux’s eerily prescient, eccentric, post-war comedy pits the common people of Paris against a conglomerate of financiers determined to destroy the City of Lights in order to profit from the reputed oil fields lying beneath the its streets.
This long-forgotten and eccentric romance by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Idiot’s Delight and Abe Lincoln in Illinois tells the improbable tale of an indomitable Russian Grand Duchess and her dashing Prince of a husband living in exile in Paris. Ms. Monte will breathe new life into this provocative and hilarious long-buried treasure, made possible in part by a […]
Britain’s master of wit has created tour de force roles for two leading ladies in this delightful comedy about the seven-year itch. The sophisticated “bubbles” of this frothy, vintage Coward are popped throughout by sharp and wickedly-funny barbs about the perils of marital bliss.
By J.M. Synge Directed by Paul Mullins Ireland’s great playwright and poet, J.M. Synge, has penned a grand adventure — part tall-tale, part outrageous comedy and part bittersweet parable. A young country lad’s transformation from beaten-down weakling to celebrated “playboy” captures the poetic heart of the wild Irish imagination in magnificent, lyrical style.
