In this beguiling comedy, no one ends as they began. Magic-wielding fairies, yearning lovers, and foolish clowns swap one role for another as they romp through an enchanted wood—with their antics set down in some of Shakespeare’s most glorious and indelible words. “Lord, what fools these mortals be”….and how we love them!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Hail Caesar, home from the wars…what darker fate awaits him? Suspicion, conspiracy and power lust boil up in a rush to murder in Shakespeare’s gripping political drama. As friendships are sundered and loyalties tested, guilt pursues the killers to their dark ends. “O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason…”

Philip Orazio

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Mar 14 - Jun 9, 2024

A Midsummer Night’s Dream · American Shakespeare Center

Feb 1 - Jun 8, 2024

Pride and Prejudice · American Shakespeare Center

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