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Posted in Bard Northwest, Midsummer, NWCTC on Sep 28th, 2007
Northwest Classical Theater Company
Directed by Glenn Scofield Williams
It’s hard not to like this company. Like the troupe of amateur players that perform the “woeful” tale of Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Northwest Classical Theater Company (NWCTC) has a “let’s put on a show!” energy and enthusiasm that is beguiling. Fortunately, their [...]
Posted in Bard Northwest, Midsummer, NWCTC, the Bard on stage on Sep 8th, 2007
There’s a lot of kissing & trickery coming to the Shoe Box Theatre as the critically-acclaimed Northwest Classical Theatre Company presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream. War has broken out between the sexes and it’ll take more than a little mischief to set things right again!
NWCTC Artistic Director Grant Turner plays Robin Goodfellow, with Portland veterans [...]
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.