Geoffrey Chaucer

ROGUE THEATER FESTIVAL to Return for 8th Season at The Flea Theater
by A.A. Cristi - May 26, 2026

The Rogue Theater Festival returns to The Flea Theater in Tribeca for its 8th season, presenting 37 original productions in partnership with Abingdon Theatre Company, including fully staged plays, staged readings, and digital streaming performances.

Sparks & Wiry Cries To Present SPARKSLIVE SONG Festival In February
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 13, 2026

Sparks & Wiry Cries will present the sparksLIVE Song Festival, featuring notable performances including 'The Invisible Man' with Stephanie Blythe, from February 19-21.

THE TWO DEATHS OF OPHELIA to be Presented by Toronto's The Happenstancers
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 12, 2025

The Happenstancers will present THE TWO DEATHS OF OPHELIA, featuring music by Linda Catlin Smith, Ann Southam, Thomas Adès. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Holly Twyford Performs With Folger Consort For Valentine's Day Weekend Concerts
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 16, 2025

Folger Consort, the award-winning early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, invites audiences to celebrate music, love, and poetry with four concerts of The Love Birds: Chaucer's A Parlement of Foules.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company Announces 2024-2025 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 3, 2024

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company has announced its 2024-2025 season, featuring productions of MACBETH, THE TEMPEST, and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

Chaucer's THE CANTERBURY TALES to Play The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse Next Month
by Blair Ingenthron - Aug 25, 2024

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse will present Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, adapted by John Stephens, September 7-29, 2024. The production is directed by Kati Grace Kirby.

Chaucer's THE CANTERBURY TALES Comes To Life On Stage This Spring!
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 7, 2024

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales comes to life on stage this Spring! Half Cut Theatre Company announces their Spring 2024 Tour, bringing one of the seminal works of English Literature, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, to FOUR London venues. Don't miss this brand new adaptation!

Review: RENT Rocks At Baltimore's Theatre Project AND M & T Bank Exchange
by Cybele Pomeroy - Jan 30, 2024

RENT is an assemblage of romantic tragedy interspersed with moments that touch your heart, rattle your nerves or tickle your funny bone, set in the gritty underbelly of New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic. The show is a tribute to the spirit of people undaunted by poverty, addiction and illness in the face of a very bleak reality. 

The 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Names 10 Finalists Including Zadie Smith, Francisca Da Silveira & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 8, 2023

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced 10 Finalists for its prestigious playwriting award, the oldest and largest international prize awarded to women+ playwrights.

John-Luke Roberts Brings Two Shows To Adelaide Festival
by Stephi Wild - Jan 26, 2023

One of UK comedy's left-field geniuses is making his Adelaide debut. John-Luke Roberts arrives in South Australia, carrying a selection of props whose transportation costs almost guarantee and overall loss. With not one, but two huge, critically-acclaimed shows in his back pocket. And, not to alarm you, but he's about to move them to his front pocket and then get them out of his pocket altogether.

Beck Center Announces Youth Production of THE CANTERBURY TALES OR….GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S FLYING CIRCUS
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 19, 2022

Beck Center for the Arts, one of the oldest continuously running Youth Theater programs in the nation has announced the first production of the 74th Youth Theater 2022-2023 Season.

Beck Center For The Arts Announces 2022-23 Youth Theater Season
by Stephi Wild - Sep 28, 2022

Beck Center for the Arts, one of the oldest continuously running Youth Theater programs in the nation has announced the 74th Youth Theater Season for 2022-2023.

EDINBURGH 2022: Horseplay Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Jul 13, 2022

BWW catches up with Horseplay to chat about bringing Bareback to the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Bristol Riverside Theatre to Present A FEW GOOD MEN
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 10, 2022

Bristol Riverside Theatre will close its season with a chance to see Hollywood notable Aaron Sorkin’s groundbreaking debut that tells the story of a group of military lawyers assigned to defend two Marines in Guantanamo Bay.

Chanticleer Premieres Nico Muhly's BEAUTY OF THE DAY This Month
by Stephi Wild - Apr 1, 2022

Multiple Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer gives the world premiere of composer Nico Muhly's Beauty of the Day this spring at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center Cultural Campus (April 13).

BWW Review: THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN, Kiln Theatre
by Debbie Gilpin - Nov 17, 2021

“All were worthy men in their degree.” The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1392, all linked by the central narrative of a pilgrimage from the Tabard Inn in Southwark to Thomas A Beckett's shrine in Canterbury Cathedral; it features characters such as the Knight, Pardoner, Miller, and Merchant – though Zadie Smith has chosen to base her new play on one of the few female characters. The Wife of Bath becomes the Wife of Willesden.

Chanticleer Tours Its Beloved Christmas Program Across the U.S. This Winter
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 3, 2021

Multiple Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer – a group that “fascinates and enthralls … through luxurious perfection” (Los Angeles Times) – celebrates its 44th season with a return to in-person holiday touring across the U.S. (Nov 28–Dec 23).

John Caird Directs Concert KNIGHTS' TALE Featuring Tokyo Phil
by Stephi Wild - Sep 3, 2020

The 2018 critically acclaimed stage musical A Knights' Tale - written and directed by John Caird (LES MISERABLES, Jane Eyre, Nicholas Nickleby, Daddy Long Legs), music and lyrics by Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility, Daddy Long Legs), Japanese translation by Maoko Imai Caird, and music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Brad Haak.

Kiln Theatre Announces Programme As Part Of Brent London Borough Of Culture 2020
by Stephi Wild - Nov 12, 2019

Kiln Theatre today announces their programme as part of Sadiq Khan's wider Brent London Borough of Culture 2020. The programme includes the world première of Zadie Smith's The Wife of Willesden directed by Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham, renewing their collaboration following the acclaimed world première stage adaptation of Smith's White Teeth in 2018, Footholds: NW Stories; a trilogy of short plays by Moira Buffini, Suhayla El-Bushra and Roy Williams, and the fourth annual Mapping Brent project, supported by the Brent 2020 Culture Fund. Kiln Theatre will also lead The Agency, a programme for young people in Brent to workshop and pitch unique business and social enterprise ideas for funding and support.

BWW Review: TOP GIRLS at Commonwealth Theatre Center
by Keith Waits - Oct 16, 2019

Caryl Churchill's 1982 play Top Girls has so much to say about women that it is staggering to realize that it is no less relevant thirty-seven years later. However it speaks to today, it does so from within an elliptical, non-linear narrative structure emblematic of the time of its creation.