Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse

The site of last year’s Rapido! Composition Contest Regional Semi-finals, The Atlanta Chamber Players return to the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse to perform the world premiere of the National Winner’s expanded piece. Composer Brian Nabors has written a stunning piece in seven dance movements for flut...

Cost: $15-24

The Atlanta Chamber Players return to the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse for the Southeastern Semi-Finals of the Rapido! Composition Contest, presented with co-founders and major supporters, the Antinori Foundation. Witness three brand-new works of chamber music by some of the region’s up-and-coming ...

Cost: $10-24

Something nerdy this way comes! Join us for the sixth annual Much Ado About Nerddom at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse! It’s just like the Nerddom you know and love… just with an additional spook factor. Come out for music, lit, puppetry, burlesque, a sweet raffle, and plenty of candy! Show at 7:30...

Cost: $15

The Atlanta Chamber Players close the 2017-2018 Season at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse with an ambitious evening of octets featuring Stravinsky’s Octet for wind instruments and the Georgia premiere of Oliver Caplan’s Krummholz Variations. Julie Albers, Principal Cellist of the St. Paul Chamber ...

Cost: $10-24

<br>The Atlanta Chamber Players close the 2017-2018 Season at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse with an ambitious evening of octets featuring Stravinsky’s Octet for wind instruments and the Georgia premiere of Oliver Caplan’s Krummholz Variations. Julie Albers, Principal Cellist of the ...

Cost: $10-24

<br>The Atlanta Chamber Players close the 2017-2018 Season at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse with an ambitious evening of octets featuring Stravinsky’s Octet for wind instruments and the Georgia premiere of Oliver Caplan’s Krummholz Variations. Julie Albers, Principal Cellist of the ...

Cost: $10-24

In this two-man play, William Luce brings us a glimpse into the world and artistic process of actor John Barrymore. Barrymore depicts the idolized stage and screen star a few months before his death in 1942 as he rehearses a revival of his triumphant 1920 Broadway performance of Richard III. He spen...

Cost: $15-$22

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

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Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

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Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

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Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

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Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

Show times. 

Cost: $29-$42

The classic tale is back, just in time for V-Day.

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Cost: $29-$42

Shakespeare’s Tavern presents Macbeth. The play presents the tragedy that comes with the all too human desire for power that set into motion “some of the most blood curdling, murderous and tragic events that Scotland has ever witnessed.” 

Oct. 5-29, Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 6:30 p.m.

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Cost: $29-$42

See the Atlanta Shakespeare Company as the present one of Shakespeare's best, about love, age, and deceit, directed by Artistic Director Jeff Watkins. There will be a special general admission showing on June 23. In July, following the performance, the cast will stick around for a Q&A.

Cost: $15-$20

Join The Atlanta Shakespeare Company and The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse as they put on Shakespeare's famous The Merchant of Venice, directed by Laura Cole. This story, full of debt, risk, love and death, is sure to entertain. A special preview of the show, on June 2, offers a question and answer w...

Cost: $15-$40

Valentine and his servant, Speed, travel from Verona to Milan in order to be properly tutored. Along the way, they face love, rejection, and outlaws. Join director Drew Reeves and the Atlanta Shakespeare Company for one of Shakespeare's oldest plays. Discounts are available for students, educators, ...

Cost: $14-$20

Set in 1605 in England, Bill Cain's play centers around a group of terrorist aiming to assassinate King James I and kill the Parliament. Directed by Jaclyn Hofmann, the politically fueled thriller stars Jeff Watkins as William Shagspeare (a spinoff character of William Shakespeare) and Elizabeth Dia...

Cost: $15-$40

One play, two kinsmen, three dimensions, no fourth wall.

Cost: $15-$40

Directed by Laura Cole, Shakespeare’s famous play, Much Ado About Nothing, comes to the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse for the month of March.

Cost: $15-$40

You're the Expert is a live show, podcast, and public radio program that uses comedy to make academic research more accessible. Through game show segments a panel of comedians will try to get to the bottom of what a distinguished scientist studies all day.

Cost: $10

The ladies of Atlanta Shakespeare Company celebrate Women's History Month with a night of text, dance, and combat all performed, directed, choreographed, and produced by the ladies. The performance features scenes from Twelfth Night, Troilus & Cressida, and others. Proceeds benefit the Women's Resou...

Cost: $15

Join sex educator Bettie Bullet and emcee Suzy Sazerac as we explore topics of consent, sexuality, gender, and relationships through stand up, spoken word, and burlesque!

Cost: $20-$35

Talloolah Love and Persephone Phoenix invite you to join them for a divine Valentine’s Day experience. This show is a tribute to the gods and goddesses of the heavens, the underworld, and everything in between!

Cost: $20, $35 and $30

The MissCast Cabaret is a unique theater event. Some of Atlanta's most talented actresses and actors perform songs and monologues from roles in which they would never be cast. The Cabaret features performances by: Joanna Daniel, Kathleen McManus, Danielle Thorsen, Bryn Striepe, Candace Mabry, Matt N...

Cost: $10-$50

A hilarious, high speed production of all 37 plays, in two hours, with only three talented actors.

Cost: $15

Enjoy a fairy-filled romp through the woods with the comedic stylings of some of ASC’s best clowning actors. This production is sure to please children of all ages. Join the cast and crew for a Q&A on Sun., July 26, after the show.

Cost: $15-$36

Rosalind disguises herself as a man as Orlando litters the woods with love notes praising her beauty and virtue. Will the two lovers be united?

Cost: $15-$36

A benefit for the Weird Sisters Theatre Project featuring themed drinks, fun silent auction items, and lots of dancing to covers performed by local talents Jessica De Maria and Jeremiah Hobbs.

Cost: $30-$110

An evening of collaborative performance art based on the poems of dead poets.

Cost: $15-$18

This Valentine's day, dare to be provocative! Talloolah Love and Persephone Phoenix of Hearts Ablaze Entertainment bring their devilish form of diversion back to the fabulous Shakespeare Tavern on none other than the night of Valentine's Day! With this show, Talloolah and Persephone pose to the audi...

Cost: $20-$50

A shipwreck, separated identical twins, mistaken identities, romance and one pair of yellow stockings — welcome to Orsino’s court and the zany world of Twelfth Night.

Cost: $15-$36

Tiffany Porter undertakes the challenge of participating in the theatrical experiment where there is no rehearsal, no director, no set, and a different performer each night reading a script cold. An actor, producer, and co-founder of the Weird Sisters Theatre Project, Porter will bring her own actin...

Cost: $20

MissCast is The Fern Theatre's first ever Cabaret Gala. This one night event will feature actors performing songs and scenes from shows/roles that they would not ordinarily be cast in (men and women switching roles)Admission is just $30 per person and includes food catered by Smoke Ring Cost: $30 single ticket/$50 Two Tickets (online special)

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Cost: $30 single ticket/$50 Two Tickets (online special)

Producers Talloolah Love and Persephone Phoenix have recently joined forces to form Hearts Ablaze Entertainment be ready to be dazzled by some of the finest entertainment and incredible talent Atlanta has to offer, enchanting you with their very best in this one of a kind, one night only show. Group...

Cost: $10-$150 for VIP seats

The Imperial OPA Circus will present the cabaret variety show entitled The Grand Cabaret featuring aerialists, acrobats, sideshow and more. Prizes will be given for the most well-dressed person(s) in the house, so come wearing your finest circus attire, or high-stepping cabaret gear. Military person...

Cost: $15-$20

Blood Will Out is a world premiere written by Atlanta playwright Laura King. In the play, set in New Hope Prison, Adam passes the time writing poetry and remembering the past. As he considers where he came from and where he wants to end up, he begins to unlock an ending to his story that he’d neve...

Cost: $15.00

Witches, prophecy, greed, desire for power, a wife’s yearnings, which is it that seals the tragic fate of Macbeth and his country? Journey to Scotland for this haunting tale. Macbeth is sure to thrill and to chill.

Cost: $15-$36

As part of the Atlanta Science Festival, the Story Collider, a NYC-based storytelling event is coming to Atlanta. Scientists and non-scientists alike will take to the stage to tell true personal stories about how science has affected their lives. The storytellers include Annalise Kaylor (social medi...

Cost: $5

The tale of the fiery and comedic romance of Kate and Petruchio, brought to you by the folks at the New American Shakespeare Tavern. For info about the early shows on Tue., Jan. 21, and Wed., Jan. 22, call the box office.

Cost: $15-$36

Come and kick off your Dragon Con weekend at the New American Shakespeare Tavern! Following the 7:30pm performance of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), we will be putting on the nerdiest variety show this side of Verona! Join us for music, comedy, puppetry, burlesque and magic!Th...

Cost: $20 ($15 with your Dragon Con badge!)

The Great Greek Puntheon is a long-form sketch comedy featuring the Greek gods of beer, malodorousness, phallic imagery, remorse and more. They pit an absurd group of heroes against each other in a pun-filled contest to see who most deserves a place among the stars. Not appropriate for patrons unde...

Cost: $10

It's 1956 and the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. Will they be able to keep their cool when Communists threaten their idyllic town?

Cost: $15

Learn about the latest Downtown developments at the Central Atlanta Progress and Atlanta Downtown Improvement District semi-annual Town Hall meeting.

Cost: Free

A long-form sketch comedy event! Ever wonder exactly why Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed? How many takes it took to get Adam & Eve right? Or maybe about the origins of herpes and tornadoes? Get the answers while you watch God and three of her angels try to manage the antics of the human race.

Cost: $10

Human sacrifice. Murder. Rape. Mutilation. Cannibalism and suicide. Beneath Shakespeare’s first tragedy, the tale of an ancient Roman’s descent into madness, revenge and redemption, is the careful crafting of the master. With Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare questions the essence of sanity and expl...

Cost: Free

Titus Clown is a 45 minute hilarious blood bath complete with football, baby barf, a hole, gangster rap, and devastating notions of murder and revenge.

Cost: $8-$15

The Shakespeare Tavern produces a three-cast show who condense all 37 plays and 154 sonnets of The Bard into one night. It's as if SparkNotes had a kid that likes theater.

Cost: $12-32

This comedy follows three actresses across the footlights, down the rabbit hole, and into a strangely familiar Wonderland that looks a lot like American theater. As these women pursue their dream of performing Chekhov in Texas, they're whisked through a maelstrom of good ideas" that offer unique sol...

Cost: $15

This pastoral comedy by Shakespeare involves the humor, romance, and action that made him a classic. The play, directed by Troy Willis, brings the action of the Shakespearean woods to The Shakespeare Tavern.

Cost: $15–$36

This is a medieval romp through boisterous and bawdy olde England. Drawing on the Celtic British influences of Geoffrey Chaucer's writing, this hilarious adaptation reintroduces the tales in forms ranging from classical to spaghetti Western! Shows at the New American Shakespeare Tavern begin at 7:30...

Cost: $12

A production of Shakespeare's second-famous battle of the sexes" play about an ever-confirmed bachelor

Cost: $15-$36