History
 The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., has dedicated itself
to becoming the nation's premier classic theatre. By focusing on works with
profound themes, complex characters and heightened language written by Shakespeare,
his contemporaries and those playwrights he influenced, the Shakespeare Theatre
Company's artistic mission is unique among regional theatres: to bring to vibrant
life groundbreaking, thought-provoking and eminently accessible classic theatre
in a uniquely American style.
The Shakespeare Theatre Company enjoys national and international renown as "one
of the world's three great Shakespearean theatres" (The
Economist) and "the
nation's foremost Shakespeare company" (The Wall Street Journal).
London's Times Literary Dispatch calls the Shakespeare Theatre Company "one
of the great successes of American Shakespeare," a sentiment confirmed by the 59
Helen Hayes awards won by the Company over the last 21 years. Among the
numerous Helen Hayes Awards earned by the Shakespeare Theatre Company and its
artists are seven awards for Outstanding Director to Michael
Kahn. Such familiar works as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and The
Tempest, as well as rarely produced plays like Coriolanus, King
John, Troilus and Cressida and Pericles have been explored on
the Shakespeare Theatre Company stage in ambitious productions directed, acted
and designed by some of this country's greatest artists.
Considered a "critical and popular success" (The New York Times)
for its reinterpretations of Shakespeare's plays, the Shakespeare Theatre Company
also has illuminated classical texts by Euripides and Ben Jonson, as well as
modern masterpieces by George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O'Neill, Henrik
Ibsen and Tennessee Williams. As interpreted by the Theatre's acclaimed resident
acting company and renowned guest artists, these familiar and unfamiliar works
emerge as extraordinary creations.
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