Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company

Drew Lichtenberg has been resident dramaturg at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, USA, since 2011. He has worked as a dramaturg, literary manager and translator-adaptor with the Royal National Theatre, Public Theater, Roundabout, La Mama, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre Center, Yale Rep and Baltimore Center Stage. As an educator, he has taught courses at Catholic University of America, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University and Eugene Lang College at the New School. His publications include The Piscatorbühne Century (2021). Deborah C. Payne is Professor of Literature at American University, USA. She was the Humanities Research Consultant at the Shakespeare Theatre Company from 2000 – 2009, and she has dramaturged for Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, the Kennedy Center, and the Bach Sinfonia. Publications include The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660 – 1700 (2023), Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play (2016), Four Restoration Libertine Plays (2005), The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (2000) and Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theatre (1995).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Series Preface
Preface by Maureen Dowd

Introduction

Chapter 1. Shakespeare in Washington, D.C.
Chapter 2. The Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger, 1986-1991
Chapter 3. The Shakespeare Theatre, 1992-2007
Chapter 4. Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2007-2019
Chapter 5. Interview with Michael Kahn
Chapter 6. STC, 2019-
Chapter 7. Interview with Simon Godwin

References
Index