Performances
Milburn Stone Theatre at Cecil College
- 2027 Jan 29 Friday 7:30 PM
- 2026 Jan 30 Friday 2:00 PM
- 2026 Jan 30 Friday 7:30 PM
- 2026 Jan 31 Saturday 2:00 PM
Auditions
- 2026 Oct 18 Sunday
- 2026 Oct 22 Thursday
What To Know About This Production
Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall
| Music by Paddy Cunneen
Based on the beloved Academy Award-winning film, Shakespeare in Love is an enchanting, hilarious, and irresistibly romantic stage play that transports audiences to the bustling, bawdy world of Elizabethan London — where the greatest love story ever written was itself born from the greatest love story never told. Young Will Shakespeare is in crisis. The deadline for his new play is fast approaching, the theater company is counting on him, and his quill has run dry. Paralyzed by writer's block and desperately in need of inspiration, Will finds himself adrift — until a chance encounter changes everything. Viola, a feisty, brilliant, and beautiful young woman with a passion for the theater that rivals Will's own, will stop at nothing — including disguising herself as a man to defy the laws of the day — to appear on stage in his next production.
As their love blossoms against a backdrop of mistaken identity, ruthless scheming, and gloriously chaotic backstage theatrics, Will discovers the muse he never knew he was looking for. From their passionate and forbidden romance emerges the words, the characters, and the heart of his greatest masterpiece — Romeo and Juliet.
Witty, warm, and wonderfully theatrical, Shakespeare in Love is a celebration of the power of love, the magic of storytelling, and the timeless belief that the show must always go on.
Shakespeare In Love is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Corp. www.concordtheatricals.com
Auditions For Shakespeare in Love
Auditions are Past
Cast List For Shakespeare in Love
Characters
- Will Shakespeare Poet and playwright
- Viola de Lesseps A daughter who disguises herself as Thomas Kent to audition to be an actor
- Kit Marlowe Will’s colleague, friend, and inspiration
- Hugh Fennyman The Producer
- Lord Wessex A nobleman betrothed to Viola
- Richard Burbage The lead actor and owner of the Curtain Theatre
- Henslowe Owner and manager of the Rose Theatre
- Edmund Tilney The Lord Chamberlain
- Sir Robert de Lesseps Viola’s father
- Queen Elizabeth I The Queen of England
- Wabash A stammering actor and Henslowe’s tailor
- Sam An actor who plays Juliet
- John Webster A street urchin who aspires to be an actor
- Nurse Servant to Viola
- Ralph An actor who plays Nurse and Petruchio
- Ned Alleyn The lead actor of the Admiral’s Men, plays Mercutio
- Male Alto Throughout the show, there are sung moments and songs led by a male alto voice. This role has the possibility of being doubled or could be standalone, depending on performer's/time commitments
- Ensemble Lambert and Frees (Fennyman’s accomplices and henchmen), Nol (An actor who plays Benvolio and Samson), Robin (An actor who plays Lady Capulet), Adam (An actor who plays Gregory, Benvolio, and Servingman), Peter (An actor who plays Tybalt), Mistress Quickly (Wardrobe mistress at Whitehall Palace), Catling (A guard at De Lesseps Hall), The Boatman, Barman, Molly & Kate, Waiter, Additional Actors at the Rose and Curtain Theatre, Guards.
Cast
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Crew
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