Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company
Michael Boyd

Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company
Michael Boyd

July 6, 2011 - August 14, 2011

Wade Thompson Drill Hall

This rare United States appearance by the Royal Shakespeare Company, coming to New York for an unprecedented six-week residency, is a theater experience not to be missed. Co-presented by Lincoln Center Festival and Park Avenue Armory, in association with The Ohio State University, the critically acclaimed ensemble performs five of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays on a full-scale replica of its Royal Shakespeare Theatre recreated in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Produtions include The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and King Lear.

"Shakespeare enthusiasts, get thee to the Armory...."

The New York Times

“A once-in-a-lifetime theater-going experience…”

Forbes

“Let’s take time to cheer the audacity and ambition of the enterprise…It’s unquestionably the theatrical event of the New York summer.”

The New York Times

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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company perform for New York City public school students in the Board of Officers Room.
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  • Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company perform for New York City public school students in the Board of Officers Room.
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  • Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company perform for New York City public school students in the Board of Officers Room.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's King Lear at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's King Lear at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's King Lear at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's As You Like It at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's As You Like It at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's As You Like It at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's As You Like It at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Park Avenue Armory.
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  • The Royal Shakespeare Company performs Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Park Avenue Armory.
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Related Events

    • Panel Discussion

      Friday, July 8, 2011 at 5:30pm

      Peter Brook and Michael Boyd

      A fascinating and insightful discussion between two powerhouse directors, Peter Brook and Michael Boyd, both directing at this summer’s Lincoln Center Festival. Moderated by renowned author and academic James Shapiro.

    • Panel Discussion

      Friday, July 15, 2011 at 6:00pm

      Directing Shakespeare

      How is directing Shakespeare different from working on contemporary plays?  Is there a difference between American and British approaches to the Bard? And what is “director’s theater” anyway? Join David Farr (director of the RSC’s Winter’s Tale and King Lear at Park Avenue Armory), Karin Coonrod (Coriolanus at Theater for a New Audience and the upcoming Love’s Labor’s Lost at the Public Theater), theater and opera director Mark Lamos (most recently Cymbeline at Lincoln Center Theater and As You Like It in Central Park) and Theater for a New Audience’s Associate Artistic Director Arin Arbus (Othello, Macbeth, and Measure for Measure at TFANA) for a spirited discussion moderated by Shakespeare Society Artistic Director Michael Sexton.

    • Panel Discussion

      Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 6:00pm

      Faith in Shakespeare

      Focusing on As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale in particular, Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Michael Boyd and authors and academics James Shapiro and Richard McCoy discuss faith in Shakespeare’s text and what it asks of audiences today when Paulina says, “It is required you do awake your faith” and what it would have meant when Shakespeare wrote it.

    • Panel Discussion

      Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 6:00pm

      Speaking Shakespeare

      Five masters of the spoken word gather for a fascinating discussion of the challenges and glories of giving Shakespeare’s language life. The world renowned Cicely Berry (Voice Director of the RSC) will be joined onstage by Deborah Hecht (Professor of Voice and Speech at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts); Ralph Zito (Chair of the Department of Drama at Syracuse University and longtime Chair of Juilliard’s Voice and Speech department); Louis Scheeder (Director of NYU’s Classical Studio and member of The FactoryUK); and the evening’s moderator, Barry Edelstein (Director of the Public Theater’s Shakespeare Initiative and author of Thinking Shakespeare). In partnership with the Shakespeare Society. 

    Support

    Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, and the Royal Shakespeare Company gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the following individuals and foundations that have made possible the summer 2011 engagement: The Gatsby Charitable Foundation,  Suzie and Bruce Kovner, with additional generous support from The Pershing Square Foundation, Susan and Elihu Rose, Lady Sainsbury of Turville, F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc., The Bodman Foundation, and the supporters of the Producers Circle.