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What's On Stage
The following Shakespeare (and Shakespeare-related) productions will be on stage in New York City during April 2011:
The Comedy of Errors
April 5 - 17, 2011
The Acting Company
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts - Pace University
3 Spruce Street
866-811-4111
www.pace.edu/shakespeare/comedy-of-errors/The Acting Company's touring production of Shakepeare's farce, itself an adaptation of Plautus' Menaechmi is presented as part of the 2010-2011 Shakespeare at Pace season.
King Lear
April 28 - June 5, 2011
Donmar Warehouse
Brooklyn Academy of Music - Harvey Theatre
651 Fulton Street (in Brooklyn)
718-636-4100
www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=2653BAM's Spring 2011 season concludes with Sir Derek Jacobi in the title role, directed by Donmar Warehouse artistic director Michael Grandage.
Macbeth
March 12 - April 22, 2011
Theatre for a New Audience
The Duke on 42nd Street
229 W. 42nd St.
212-229-2819
www.tfana.org/season/macbeth/overviewDirector Arin Arbus and actor John Douglas Thompson, who previously worked together on Symposium participant TFANA's critically acclaimed Othello in 2009, are reunited.
Macbeth
April 5 - 16, 2011
Cheek by Jowl
Brooklyn Academy of Music - Harvey Theatre
651 Fulton Street (in Brooklyn)
718-636-4100
www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=2652The idiosyncratic British company brings their version of Macbeth to New York, directed by Declan Donnellan and designed by Nick Ormerod, the co-founders and co-artistic directors.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
April 21 - 23, 2011
Aquila Theatre Company
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts - New York University
566 LaGuardia Pl., at Washington Square South
212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111
www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu/calendar/midsummerAquila promises an "imaginative interpretation" in this touring production.
Sleep No More
March 7 - April 30, 2011
Punchdrunk
The McKittrick Hotel
530 W. 27th St., between 10th and 11th Aves.
www.sleepnomorenyc.comAn unused commercial space is transformed into a swank hotel (named for a filming location from the Hitchcock classic, Vertigo) for this "immersive" production that is part Macbeth and part film noir.
Wittenberg
March 11 - April 17, 2011
The Pearl Theatre Company
New York City Center
131 W. 55th St., between 6th and 7th Aves.
212-581-1212
www.pearltheatre.org/1011/wittenberg.phpThe New York premiere of a play by David Davalos, directed by J.R. Sullivan. Doctor Faustus and Martin Luther, professors at Wittenberg University, vie for the allegience of their star pupil, Prince Hamlet.
...and on exhibition:
The Changing Face of William Shakespeare
February 4 - May 1, 2011
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave.
212-685-0008
www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=44This exhibition features three portraits thought to be of William Shakespeare from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon never before seen in the U.S.
Last updated: March 27, 2011