Best Places to Watch Shakespeare’s Plays

Shakespeare is probably the most adapted playwright in the world. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He is regarded as the world’s greatest dramatist. An English poet, playwright, and actor, he’s often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.

Interesting Facts about Shakespeare

Interesting facts about Shakespeare

• Over his lifetime, Shakespeare wrote over 39 plays, 17 comedies, 10 historical plays, 4 poems, and 154 sonnets.
• He is credited with coining 3,200 new English words that are enlisted in the Oxford English Dictionary. He helped expand English vocabulary by borrowing, inventing, and adopting words or phrases from various other languages which are known as neologizing.
• Among his plays, Hamlet (1599-1601) is the most adapted play. It has been adapted for movies and TV for over 79 times in different versions. It is also his longest play with 4,042 lines and up to five hours of running time.
• During the time Shakespeare used to the playwright, women weren’t allowed to act on stage.
• Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear are ranked best among the world’s greatest plays.
• Shakespeare married his wife Anne Hathaway when he was 18. She was 26 and three months pregnant with Shakespeare’s child when they married. Their first child Susanna was born six months after the wedding.
• Some of the renowned theater, art spaces, and institutes to watch Shakespeare’s Plays
• American Shakespeare Center (USA) -Originally the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia seeks to make Shakespeare, the joys of theatre and language, and the communal experience of the Renaissance stage accessible to all.

Theaters in the USA to Watch Shakespeare’s Plays

Some of the popular theaters in the USA staging William Shakespeare’s plays are as follows:

American Shakespeare Center	VA	Originally the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia seeks to make Shakespeare, the joys of theatre and language, and the communal experience of the Renaissance stage accessible to all.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater	IL	Chicago Shakespeare Theater is Chicago’s professional theater dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare.
Illinois Shakespeare Festival	IL	The Illinois Shakespeare Festival is known nationally in the theatre community as one of the top Shakespeare Festivals. The Illinois Office of Tourism nominated the Illinois Shakespeare Festival as one of the top 120 attractions in the country.
Open Air Theatre	UK	Since 1932, the Open Air Theatre at Regent’s Park in London has become an established and much-loved highlight of Park’s life and of London’s theatrical calendar.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival	OR	Based in Ashland, Oregon, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is the largest rotating repertory company in the US, operating since 1935.
Royal Shakespeare Company	UK	The RSC is probably the most famous classical theatre company in the world. This site has all the latest information on current and future productions, ticket sales, merchandising as well as press and educational resources.
Shakespeare & Company (MA)	MA	Located in Lenox, Massachusetts, Shakespeare & Company is one of the largest Shakespeare Festivals in the U.S. The organization attracts more than 60,000 patrons annually and is renowned for its actor training and theatre-in-education programs.
Shakespeare in Central Park	NY	Founded by Joe Papp, the New York Shakespeare Festival’s “Shakespeare in Central Park” season has been a premier summer theater since 1962.
Shakespeare’s Globe Online	UK	Founded by the pioneering American actor/director Sam Wanamaker, 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 education and performance.
The Shakespeare Theatre	DC	Since its founding in 1986, The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, has dedicated itself to becoming the nation’s premier classic theatre.
The Stratford Festival of Canada	ON	Stratford, Ontario is the home of the largest classical repertory theatre in North America. It draws audiences of more than 600,000 each year.
Utah Shakespeare Festival	UT	The Utah Shakespearean Festival, which won the 2000 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, presents nine plays each year from June through October.
Writers Theatre	IL	Writers Theatre creates the most intimate theatrical experience possible through inventive interpretations of classic work and a bold approach to contemporary theatre, bringing audiences face-to-face with powerful stories by creating the most intimate theatrical experience possible.

Shakespeare Globe Theater

Shakespeare Globe Theatre is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre where William Shakespeare wrote and staged his plays located in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. It was originally built in 1599 by Shakespeare’s playing company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend, and grandson Sir Matthew Brend.  It was later destroyed by fire on June 29, 1613.

Shakespeare Globe Theater

The reconstructed Globe Theater came to existence in 1997. It was rebuilt in the original style. It has a total seating capacity of 873. The theater has seen the performance of many great Shakespeare’s classics including Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Othello, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Measure for Measure, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Pericles, and The Winter’s Tale.

Shakespeare Globe Theater

During the Renaissance period of the theater (1500–1660), also known as the golden period of theater in Britain, William Shakespeare staged some of his classics such as Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. It also saw the rise of George Chapman and comedies.

 

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