Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard | Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall
Music by Paddy Cunneen

Recommended for ages 13 and up

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.

5 STARS! “An absolute joy from beginning to end!” – Daily Express

5 STARS! "Funny, often genuinely moving, and generates a glow you could warm your hands by...The best British comedy since One Man, Two Guvnors and deserves equal success." - Daily Telegraph,

5 STARS! "An absolute joy from beginning to end!"
- Daily Express, 

"There's the elating sense that the material--with its rivalry between the public playhouses echoing between the Monatgues and the Capulets--is reveling in it's natural elements in the theatre...It makes you feel grateful to be alive." - The Independent 

"Marvelously fluid, riotously funny, and often intensely, even startlingly poignant...This may be, in part at least, a comedy about Shakespeare falling in love; but joking aside, it could just make you fall, all over again, in love with Shakespeare." - Chicago Tribune

Shakespeare In Love is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Corp. www.concordtheatricals.com

Eligible for a Milburn Stone Theatre 2026/2027 Season Package

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