Announcing our 2024-2025 season!
Our 2024-2025 Season, entitled Whose Democracy?, presents performances that challenge perceptions and ignite conversations about power and participation. Subscribe today to take advantage of all the best benefits, including the best subscription prices of the season, available now for a limited time.
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Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Raymond O. Caldwell
October 1 – November 10, 2024
In a violent society where rival families fight in the public streets, two young people find love. When all the systems meant to protect and guide them—familial, religious, and governmental—fail, can they find a way for their love and lives to survive despite the chaos around them?
A Room in the Castle
By Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Kaja Dunn
March 4 – April 6, 2025
Commissioned and co-produced with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
How does a woman survive the court of Denmark? A Room in the Castle finds Ophelia, her handmaid, and Queen Gertrude on the other end of a wild prince’s antics and realizing just how dangerous life in this castle has become. A meditation on women helping women, what mothering a potential madman means, and what responsibility generations of feminists have to one another, A Room in the Castle rebrands the stories of the women of Shakespeare’s Hamlet into a drama with music and defiant hope for the future.
Twelfth Night
By William Shakespeare
May 13 – June 29, 2025
Viola washes up on the shore after losing her twin brother in a shipwreck. In disguise as her twin brother, she lands in the world of Duke Orsino. A playful interpretation of a beloved Shakespeare comedy that brings gender fluidity, mistaken identities, and what it means to move between worlds into a joyful discovery of love.
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