Atlanta Shakespeare Company announces 2024-2025 season

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse has announced titles for its 2024-25 season.

Director: Kati Grace Kirby

$20 General Admission Preview Thursday, September 5, 2024

$24 General Admission Preview Friday, September 6, 2024

Runs from 7 to 29 September 2024

Join us on a medieval journey through wild and rough old England. This hilarious adaptation takes the Celtic-British influences of Geoffrey Chaucer's writings and presents the stories in sketch comedy form, with themes ranging from classical to spaghetti westerns, and a whole host of modern surprises!

Featured stories:

Miller's story

The Story of the Wife of Bath

Pardoner's Story

The story of a nun priest

Dealer history

Reeves story

(Not recommended for persons under 16 years)

Join the cast and crew for a lively question-and-answer session after the show on Sunday, September 15, 2024!

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company presents

The Havoc Movement

Dracula – The Sins of Men

Written by Benedetto Robinson

Director: Jake Guinn

$20 General Admission Preview Thursday, October 3, 2024

$24 General Admission Preview Friday, October 4, 2024

Runs from October 5 to November 3, 2024

Shows only at 7:30pm, Sunday, Oct 13th

Bonus performances Tuesday, October 29 and Wednesday, October 30 (7:30 p.m.)

Get ready for this incredibly unique action horror reinterpretation of Bram Stoker's work, produced by ASC in association with Havoc Movement.

Dracula: The Failings of Men will be performed in the halls of the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse this October. Come and experience the greatest vampire hunt of all time, led by Dr. Ada Van Helsing and Dr. Jack Seward. When an abandoned ship crashes on the shores of London, strange things begin to happen. Men go mad and women sleepwalk straight into the arms of death in the flesh.

Written by Benedetto Robinson, this adaptation lets Bram Stoker's original prose shine. Featuring fast-paced combat, aerial dancing, and larger-than-life blood effects, Havoc Movement is excited to finally bring this twist on a classic to Atlanta.

Join us for a post-show Q&A on Sunday, October 13, 2024.

Shakespeare out of a hat: Macbeth

Just one night

Sunday, October 20, 2024

19:30

We know the actors and the play, but what roles will they pull out of the hat to play?

Nobody will know until 2 minutes before the play starts! Partly improvisation, mostly Shakespeare and all the outrageous things that this team of trained Shakespearean actors will pull out of their hat.

And sometimes there is a live dog.

Shakespeare Out of a Hat is a one-off special event that takes place throughout the year! You can find further dates/plays in the calendar!

hamlet

Director: Andrew Houchins

With Mary Ruth Ralston as Hamlet

$20 General Admission Preview Thursday, November 7, 2024

$24 General Admission Preview Friday, November 8, 2024

Runs from November 9 to December 1, 2024

No performance on Thanksgiving November 28, 2024

The secret nightly utterances of a royal ghost set in motion events that seal the tragic fate of the Danish royal family. In the midst of all this, Hamlet struggles with overwhelming thoughts about life, love, death and vengeance, trying to make sense of it all. Learn why this is often considered the greatest tragedy and play of all time.

Join us for a post-show Q&A on Sunday, November 17, 2024.

A Christmas story

By Charles Dickens

Adapted by J. Tony Brown

Director: Laura J. Cole

$20 General Admission Preview December 5, 2024

$24 General Admission Preview December 6, 2024

Runs from 7 to 23 December 2024

Additional performances

Saturday, December 14, 2024, RELAXED PERFORMANCE. 2:30 p.m. Lunch menu available from 1:15 p.m.
Tuesday 17 December, 2024
Wednesday 18 December, 2024

Saturday, December 21, 2024, 2:30 p.m. Lunch menu available from 1:15 p.m.
Monday, December 23, 2024, 2:30 p.m. Lunch menu available from 1:15 p.m.
Monday, December 23, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

ASC is proud to continue J. Tony Brown's original adaptation of a timeless classic, a holiday tradition at Shakespeare Tavern for over 20 years, as now envisioned by Laura J. Cole, ASC's Director of Education and Training.

A handful of tavern performers invite you to experience the wonderful art of storytelling and transport you to Scrooge's London counting house on that fateful Christmas when Ebenezer meets three ghosts and a certain little boy named Tiny Tim. This enchanting and revamped Christmas experience brings the magic of the season to Scrooge, the tavern and you. Enjoy some Dickens, a little singing and the kind of Christmas spirit you expect every December from the Atlanta Shakespeare Company.

Join us for a post-show Q&A on Sunday, December 15, 2024.

A weekend full of Shakespeare out of the hat

Thursday, January 2, 2025: Much ado about nothing
Friday, January 3, 2025: A comedy of errors
Saturday, January 4, 2025: Epiphany

We know the actors and the plays, but what roles will they pull out of the hat to play?

Nobody will know until 2 minutes before the play starts! Partly improvisation, mostly Shakespeare and all the outrageous things that this team of trained Shakespearean actors will pull out of their hat.

And sometimes there is a live dog.

Shakespeare Out of a Hat is a one-off special event that takes place throughout the year! You can find further dates/plays in the calendar!

Love's labour lost

Director: Artistic Director Jeff Watkins

$20 General Admission Preview Thursday, January 9, 2025

$24 General Admission Preview Friday, January 10, 2025

Runs from 11 to 26 January 2025

Can four young men try to keep their promise to avoid love, food, drink and sleep in order to become more intellectual and thoughtful? Not in Shakespeare's world! When four young women enter the scene, the result is anything but a blissful contemplation of noble deeds and nobler thoughts. Enjoy Muscovites, masks and lessons on love in this lyrical comedy.

Join us for a post-show Q&A on Sunday, January 19, 2025.

Romeo and Juliet

Director: Olivia Dawson

$20 General Admission Preview Thursday, January 30, 2025

$24 General Admission Preview Friday, January 31, 2025

Runs from 1 February to 2 March 2025

Can love still exist, thrive and survive in a violent and broken community? A production to mark the 22nd anniversary of William Shakespeare's tragic love story.

Join us for a post-show Q&A on Sunday, February 16, 2025.

Shakespeare out of the hat: Romeo and Juliet (Happy End/They Don't Die Version)

Only two nights

Sunday, February 16, 2025
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
19:30

We know the actors and the play, but what roles will they pull out of the hat to play?

Nobody will know until 2 minutes before the play starts! Partly improvisation, mostly Shakespeare and all the outrageous things that this team of trained Shakespearean actors will pull out of their hat.

And sometimes there is a live dog.

Shakespeare Out of a Hat is a one-off special event that takes place throughout the year! You can find further dates/plays in the calendar!

The African Company presents Richard III

(Based on a true story)

Director: JL Reed

$20 General Admission Preview Thursday, March 6, 2025

$24 General Admission Preview Friday, March 7, 2025

Runs from 8 to 30 March 2025

Forty years before the abolition of slavery, William Henry Brown, a free black American, organizes a performance of Shakespeare's Richard III with his troupe, the African Grove Theater. At the same time, leading New York City producer Stephen Price has hired the famous English actor Junius Brutus Booth to play Richard III at his Park Theater. Threatened by the potential success of Brown's Richard III, Price is determined to ban the performance. As Brown struggles to get his production premiered, he must also contend with his troupe of African-American actors who are unsure of their place in English drama or whether they are even prepared for the consequences of performing Shakespeare in their own way.

Join us for a post-show Q&A on Sunday, March 16, 2025.

Originally produced in 1987 by the Penumbra Theatre Company

Lou Bellamy, artistic director.

Produced by Arena Stage, 1992,

Douglas C. Wager, Artistic Director;

Tazwell Thompson, Director.

THE AFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III is performed under special arrangement with Broadway.

Licensing, LLC, manages the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)

What you want

Director: Mary Ruth Ralston

$20 General Admission Preview Thursday, April 3, 2025

$24 General Admission Preview Friday, April 4, 2025

Runs from 5 to 27 April 2025

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