STC Online
Learning Shakespeare
Teaching the next generation with today's Shakespeare
Launched in 2022, STC Online's Learning Shakespeare program has revolutionized how students learn about William Shakespeare and his most iconic plays.
Utilizing an innovative approach that combines live instruction, interactive modules, and access to new, modern productions of the Bard's works created and licensed by Shakespeare Theatre Company, this method will have your students engaged—and cheering for more.
Reserve today, reservations are limited to 10 classrooms each month.
Available Titles in 2025:
ROMEO AND JULIET
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Simon Godwin
Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them. This new film brings to life the remarkable backstage spaces of the National Theatre in which desire, dreams and destiny collide to make Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy sing in an entirely new way. Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, Judy) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown, God’s Own Country) play Juliet and Romeo. The award-winning cast includes Tamsin Greig, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati, Deborah Findlay.
KING LEAR
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Simon Godwin
Caught in a carousel of memory, the head of a dysfunctional royal family grapples with power-hungry children and the threat of losing the empire he created. Real and imagined worlds coalesce, creating a political and personal horror that threatens to swallow the mind of the monarch. The incomparable Patrick Page (Hadestown, The Gilded Age) returns to STC as the once-revered king caught in an emotional hurricane ravaging his home, head, and heart.
MACBETH
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Simon Godwin
Featuring Ralph Fiennes & Indira Varma
Blood will have blood. Unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murderous desires reign supreme in Shakespeare’s most poetic examination of evil. When three witches tell Macbeth that he will become King of Scotland, he plots with his wife to attain the title through an assassination; a bloody act that gives him his crown and sends him careening down the path of his own undoing. Artistic Director Simon Godwin directs Tony and BAFTA Award-winner Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient) and Olivier Award-winner Indira Varma (Game of Thrones) in this thrilling account of how our minds deceive us and how a guilty conscience can undo us all.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Arin Arbus
In a city steeped in the ills of antisemitism, racism, misogyny, and homophobia, Shakespeare’s incendiary play exposes the fissures between fairness, accountability, and justice—and who profits from them. Tony Award nominee John Douglas Thompson (Jitney, Mare of Easttown), “one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation” (The New York Times), makes his STC debut as the enigmatic Shylock in this searing portrayal of society’s prejudices and the elusive nature of mercy.
COMEDY OF ERRORS
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Simon Godwin
Two sets of twins. Two rival cities. Infinite hilarity.
Confusions collide in this hilariously illogical comedy. Lookalikes Alex Brightman (School of Rock on Broadway) and David Fynn (School of Rock on the West End) come together as Dromio and Dromio (respectively) to add a splash of rock ‘n’ roll to Shakespeare’s most deliriously funny play. Artistic Director Simon Godwin (Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth) directs this raucous reflection of families lost and found, topsy turvy love and the utterly human desire to belong.
*Not available until Summer 2025.
Understanding Shakespeare Through His Villains, A Theatrical Study of ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE
Created and performed by Patrick Page
Directed by Simon Godwin
A beguiling bonanza of Shakespearean devilry.
Dubbed “The villain of Broadway” by Playbill, Tony Award-nominee and Grammy Award-winner Patrick Page (King Lear, Hadestown) has never shied away from exploring his dark side. Now, with this tour de force show, “one of America’s greatest classical actors” (The Wall Street Journal) turns to the twisted motivations and hidden humanity at the heart of Shakespeare’s greatest villains. Moving swiftly through the canon, Page illuminates Shakespeare’s evolving conception of evil by delving into more than a dozen of his most wicked creations, offering a thrilling masterclass on the most terrifying subject of them all: human nature.
Pricing
The Learning Shakespeare program consists of 10 modules per Learning Unit: 5 live modules with an STC Teaching Artist and 5 instructor-paced modules.
- Title I Schools: $1,500
- Public Schools: $2,000
- Private Schools: $2,500