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Michael Kahn's final production as Artistic Director of Shakespeare Theatre Company has an a marvelous cast of STC favorites and new faces. Click below to see the entire cast.

The sole surviving trilogy in Greek tragedy, The Oresteia chronicles a deluge of pain that can only be stopped when society peers into its own soul and sees the depths of its complicity. Playwright Ellen McLaughlin (The Persians) has created a new version of the classic that weaves together the works of Aeschylus with stunning poetry and emotional heft. 

On March 11, May 15 and June 3, join Artistic Director Michael Kahn and friends for a series of intimate conversations about life in the theatre. As Michael prepares to retire as Artistic Director after 33 years, he reflects and reminisces about his career with the artists who know him best, including Stacy Keach, Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Floyd King and more.

General Admission Tickets: $20

Students: $10

Subscriber perk alert! Subscribers and donors save 25% when reserving all three events. Use promo code KAHN when you order. 

“★★★★★…fantastically devious and delightfully fun.” –Metro Weekly

“DELICIOUSLY COMPLEX…a dark and fascinating journey.” –BroadwayWorld

“MEMORABLE…Matthew Rauch’s Richard teaches a master class in duplicity and manipulation.” –DC Metro Theater Arts

“RIVETING…David Muse is a brilliant director and he brings out the best in his actors.” –The Georgetown Dish

“Its sinister and dark delivery takes Shakespeare’s title character to a new level of villainy.” –PG County Sentinel

“There are some outstanding performances swimming in all the blood, particularly among the women.” –Brightest Young Things

In Arlington, Virginia during the 1990s, playwright Adrienne Kennedy’s son was viciously beaten by police after being pulled over for a broken taillight. That disturbing incident led them, mother and child, to collaborate on this powerful, autobiographical drama. Sleep Deprivation Chamber reads now like a premonition of today’s pervasive climate of violence, masterfully interweaving a suspenseful docudrama with the black experience of 20th-century America.

Sleep Deprivation Chamber was originally directed by Michael Kahn in 1996 for Signature Theatre in New York. A sequel of sorts to Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro (also directed by Michael Kahn, and one of the founding texts of the Off-Broadway movement), Sleep Deprivation Chamber allows us to measure how far we’ve come and how much has remained the same.

Subscriber perk alert! You have early access to RSVP to this FREE event on Monday, March 18 at the Lansburgh Theatre. RSVP today!

Rehearsals are now underway for The Academy for Classical Acting's extraordinary exploration of Shakespeare's War of the Roses, using devised movement, actor-created sound and compiled text from the Henry VI cycle.  

Directed by Paul Reisman and Dody DiSanto, Henry60 tells all three parts of Shakespeare’s Henry VI cycle in sixty minutes, performed by sixteen actors. Who has the rightful claim to the throne? Who is responsible for the War of the Roses? And how does this epic rivalry drive the action of several of Shakespeare’s most poignant histories?

Now a cherished D.C. tradition, STC’s Family Week provides free and low-cost programming so that every family member may learn, explore and build a love for theatre. STC celebrates the magic of theatre with performances of The Tiny-Tempest and A Mini-Summer Night’s Dream. The whole family can participate in interactive workshops, activities, performances and special events. Family week takes place at Sidney Harman Hall from March 11 to March 17.