Research Guides: Shakespeare Studies: Shakespeare in Performance

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Internet Broadway Database (IBDb)
IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
London Theatre Guide
This guide was created in early 1995 to provide a reliable source of information and reviews pertaining to London Theatre on the Internet. The objective of the guide is to be as comprehensive as possible for West End theatre listings. We aim to keep the guide up-to-date with all the news and changes as they happen.

NY Theatres that regularly feature Shakespeare's plays

Public Theater, NYC
As the nation's foremost theatrical producer of Shakespeare and new work, The Public Theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an American theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of challenging new plays, musicals and innovative stagings of the classics.
Theatre for a New Audience, NYC
The mission of Theatre for a New Audience is to help develop and vitalize the performance and study of Shakespeare and classic drama. Theatre for a New Audience produces for audiences Off-Broadway and has also toured nationally and internationally. Theatre for a New Audience finds the contemporary heart of the classics. A reverence for language, spirit of adventure and visual boldness, which supports the work of the writer and actor, mark the Theatre's productions.
Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC
BAM's mission is to be the preeminent progressive performing and cinema arts center of the twenty-first century, engaging both global and local communities. Its enduring purpose is to provide a distinctive environment in which its audiences—annually, more than 500,000 people from a wide geographic area—may experience a broad array of challenging and enriching aesthetic/cultural programs.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Cold Spring, NY
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival is dedicated to producing the plays of Shakespeare with an economy of style that focuses our energy and resources on script, actors, and audience. We communicate the stories with energy, clarity and invention and we distill rather than embellish the language and action. We challenge ourselves and our audiences to take a fresh look at what is essential in Shakespeare's plays.
Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot

Classic Stage Company

London / UK Theatres that regularly feature Shakespeare's plays

The websites for Shakespeare's Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre are a rich source of information, not only on their current productions, but past productions as well. Some of the sites, particularly the Education pages, include video clips, interviews with performers and directors, and photographs of past/current productions. Be sure to explore the websites fully!

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London
Shakespeare's Globe is a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of performance and education.
National Theatre, London
We have three permanent auditoriums - the Olivier, Lyttelton and Cottesloe Theatres - and in these three theatres, we present a mix of new plays and classics, with seven or eight productions in repertory at any one time.

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US Theatres that regularly feature Shakespeare's plays

Folger Theatre
The Folger is a world-renowned research center on Shakespeare and on the early modern age in the West. Its conservation lab is a leading innovator in the preservation of rare materials. Its well-known public programs include plays, concerts, literary readings, family activities, and exhibitions, as well as numerous K-12 and college programs for students and teachers. Advanced scholars participate in a variety of Folger Institute seminars and colloquia.
The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC
Since its founding in 1985, the Shakespeare Theatre Company has endeavored to be the nation’s leading force in the presentation and preservation of classic theatre. Our core mission is to present classic theatre in an accessible, skillful, imaginative, American style that honors playwrights’ language and intentions while viewing their plays through a 21st-century lens.
American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, VA
The American Shakespeare Center recovers the joys and accessibility of Shakespeare's theatre, language, and humanity by exploring the English Renaissance stage and its practices through performance and education.
Summer Shakespeare in Philly's Clark Park
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Madison, NJ
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (formerly called "New Jersey Shakespeare Festival") is one of 22 professional theatres in the state. One of the leading Shakespeare theatres in the nation — serving 100,000 adults and children annually — it is New Jersey's only professional theatre company dedicated to Shakespeare's canon and other classic masterworks. Through its productions and education programs, the company strives to illuminate the universal and lasting relevance of the classics for
Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA
Shakespeare & Company aspires to create a theatre of unprecedented excellence rooted in the classical ideals of inquiry, balance, and harmony; a company that performs as the Elizabethans did — in love with poetry, physical prowess, and the mysteries of the universe.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago, IL
The Chicago Shakespeare Theater offers a broad spectrum of theatrical experiences year-round, engaging and entertaining audiences from all walks of life and from around the world. The plays of William Shakespeare form the core of our company's work are complemented by other dramatic works—from traditional classical theater to new classics that resonate with Shakespeare’s timeless insights into the human condition.
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Denver, CO
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a professional theatre company in residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder.