The San Diego Shakespeare Society
Celebrating the Bard's Works Since 2002
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Thomas Haine's "Shakespeare Unfolded" actors perform with Charles Peters' CONNECTIONS contemporary actors in one night super showcase. Buy tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/connections-actors-meet-shakespeare-actors-in-one-nite-showcase-tickets-1342766854809?aff=oddtdtcreator
Dr. Gideon Rappaport will discuss his book Shakespeare's Rhetorical Figures: An Outline. When Shakespeare began writing for the stage, he had already mastered over two hundred rhetorical figures inherited from the long tradition of the language arts--grammar, logic, and rhetoric--stretching from Aristotle to his own time. These figures, which to us may appear merely decorative, […]
The Winter’s Tale, one of Shakespeare’s very late plays, is filled with improbabilities. Before the conclusion, one character comments that what we are about to see, “Were it but told you, should be hooted at / Like an old tale.” Kevin Manley is our director.
At Sage Creek High School, one performance of Twelfth Night. https://www.instagram.com/twelfth.night.schs/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw%3D%3D#.
Something is rotten in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, but it’s not Shakespeare’s fault. There’s a good reason for the bad example of inventing the Jew Shylock to be the play’s villain, and the play, though its semi-anti-Semitism is offensive and dangerous, is nonetheless of universal value. Dr. Gideon Rappaport, San Diego's premier Shakespearean dramaturg, will […]
Two struggling actors find solace from lockdown isolation by staging Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto Online, battling griefers as they connect through William Shakespeare. https://digitalgym.org/movies/grand-theft-hamlet/
Join us at the Mission Valley Mall (near Target) for an extended discussion of this profound tragedy as well as readings of selected scenes.
Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein provides a 90-minute exploration of the language of Shakespeare. https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/thinking-shakespeare-live/#?startDate=2025-06-01&%3FendDate=2025-06-30
The Coronado Playhouse presents this whimsical exploration of love, identity, and pastoral life. With its witty dialogue, memorable characters, and joyful resolution, As You Like It remains one of William Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. https://www.coronadoplayhouse.org/as-you-like-it/
The Winter's Tale includes murderous passions, man-eating bears, princes and princesses in disguise, death by drowning and by grief, oracles, betrayal, and unexpected joy. Yet the play, which draws much of its power from Greek myth, is grounded in the everyday. Kevin Manley is our director.
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