What happened to the boys who played Shakespeare's women? At the Globe Theater in the summer of 1606, six boy players warm up, run lines, gossip, and fall in and out of love all in between rehearsals for the premieres of Antony and Cleopatra and Twelfth Night. As the plague and rising religious conservatism threaten…

Think you know everything about literature's most star-crossed lovers? Well, buckle up! Juliet’s Nurse hits the road to leverage her eyewitness observations and correct the record on "the greatest love story ever told". Inspired by actress / Brooklyn Theater fire survivor Kate Claxton's historic lecture tour, NURSE! is a comic meditation on love, death, aging,…

OUT OF THE HAT features Phoenix Theatre Ensemble company members at their finest as they execute the unpredictable feat of improvising a brand new play, sight unseen. The audience goes along for a wild and often riotous ride! Playwrights Tom Dudzick, Christopher Kyle, Shawn Rawls and Julie M. Goldberg were commissioned to each write a new…

The year is 1943; the place, a hotel apartment in New York City. Dorothy Parker, famed for her wit and her presence at the legendary Algonquin Round Table--sorts through her works, looking back on her life: her many loves and heartbreaks, her famous friends (Lillian Hellman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), the wits of the…

Virginia Woolf meets fellow author Vita Sackville-West in London in the 1920s. They embark on a 20-year relationship that inspires one of Virginia's most famous novels, Orlando. Vita and Virginia deftly brings to life the real letters and diaries of the two women, revealing the deep friendship, wit and passion between them. Directed by Craig…