Macbeth
A soldier is told he will be king, and decides not to wait.
2 hr 10 min1 mono.
King Lear
An old king divides his kingdom by flattery and learns what love was worth only after it's gone.
~3.5 hrs2 mono.
Twelfth Night
A shipwrecked woman disguises herself as a man, and every love in Illyria points the wrong way.
~2.5 hrs2 mono.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Four lovers, a fairy quarrel, and a troupe of amateurs collide in an enchanted wood overnight.
~2 hrs3 mono.
King John
An embattled king clings to a contested crown through war, excommunication, and betrayal.
~2.5 hrs2 mono.
As You Like It
Exiles find liberty and love in the Forest of Arden, where a girl in disguise schools a man in wooing.
~2.5 hrs2 mono.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Two men invent fictional identities to escape their obligations, and nearly lose the women they love to a muffin and a handbag.
~2 hrs3 mono.
A Doll's House
A wife realizes her marriage has been a performance, and walks out the door that changed modern theatre.
~2 hrs2 mono.
The Seagull
Four people love the wrong people while art and youth curdle into disappointment at a country estate.
~2 hrs3 mono.
The Tempest
A banished sorcerer raises a storm to bring his enemies ashore, then chooses forgiveness over revenge.
~2 hrs2 mono.
The Merchant of Venice
A merchant's loan comes due as a pound of flesh, and mercy is argued in open court.
~2.5 hrs3 mono.
Richard III
A deformed, brilliant villain murders his way to the throne, then cannot hold it.
~3.5 hrs1 mono.
Romeo and Juliet
Two teenagers from feuding families fall in love and die for it, in four days.
~3 hrs1 mono.
Julius Caesar
Honourable men talk themselves into an assassination, then lose the argument at the funeral.
~2.5 hrs1 mono.
Doctor Faustus
A scholar trades his soul for everything and finds the bill comes due on the hour.
2 hr1 mono.
Saint Joan
A teenage farm girl leads an army, then faces the court that will burn her.
2 hr 30 min1 mono.
The Cherry Orchard
An aristocratic family loses the estate — and the orchard — they cannot afford to keep.
1 hr 50 min1 mono.
Trifles
Two women reading a farm kitchen see the murder the men cannot.
30 min1 mono.
Hamlet
A prince, asked by his father's ghost to avenge a murder, thinks himself to the edge of ruin.
~4 hrs2 mono.
Othello
A trusted officer poisons a general's mind against his own wife, one insinuation at a time.
~3.5 hrs2 mono.
Much Ado About Nothing
Two sworn wits are tricked into love while a slander nearly ruins a wedding.
~2.5 hrs1 mono.
The Taming of the Shrew
A fortune-hunter marries the sharpest-tongued woman in Padua and sets out to tame her.
~2.5 hrs0 mono.
All's Well That Ends Well
A low-born physician's daughter cures a king to win the husband who won't have her.
~2.5 hrs0 mono.
The Comedy of Errors
Two sets of identical twins loose in one city turn an afternoon into mistaken-identity chaos.
~1.5 hrs0 mono.
Love's Labour's Lost
Four men swear off women for three years of study, then a princess and her ladies arrive.
~2.5 hrs0 mono.
Measure for Measure
A deputy left to clean up Vienna condemns a man for lechery, then propositions his sister.
~2.5 hrs1 mono.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Two clever wives turn the tables on the fat knight who woos them both for their husbands' money.
~2 hrs0 mono.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
A prince flees a tyrant and, across years and shipwrecks, loses and finds a wife and daughter.
~2.5 hrs0 mono.
Cymbeline
A wager on a wife's fidelity sets off exile, disguise, and war before an improbable reconciliation.
~3 hrs0 mono.
The Winter's Tale
A king's sudden jealousy destroys his family, and only time and a statue can mend it.
~3 hrs1 mono.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
One friend betrays another over the same woman, testing whether friendship survives love.
~2 hrs0 mono.
Troilus and Cressida
Inside the Trojan War, a fragile love and a brittle honour both curdle into disillusion.
~3 hrs0 mono.
Richard II
A king who believes his crown is divine is deposed by the cousin he exiled.
~2.5 hrs0 mono.
Henry IV, Part 1
A wayward prince idles in taverns with Falstaff while a rebellion gathers for him to answer.
~2.5 hrs1 mono.
Henry IV, Part 2
As his father dies, Prince Hal must finally choose the crown over Falstaff.
~2.5 hrs0 mono.
Henry V
The reformed prince, now king, gambles his reign on an invasion of France.
~2.5 hrs1 mono.
Henry VI, Part 1
England's grip on France slips under a boy-king as Joan of Arc rallies the enemy.
~2.5 hrs0 mono.
Henry VI, Part 2
Nobles feud and a commoner's revolt erupts as a weak king loses control of his realm.
~2.5 hrs0 mono.
Henry VI, Part 3
The Wars of the Roses turn savage as crowns change hands and Richard of Gloucester rises.
~2.5 hrs0 mono.
Henry VIII
Court intrigue, a cardinal's fall, and a king's divorce reshape a kingdom.
~2.5 hrs0 mono.
Antony and Cleopatra
A Roman general and an Egyptian queen wreck an empire and themselves for love.
~3.5 hrs1 mono.
Coriolanus
A brilliant, contemptuous soldier cannot bend to the people he defends, and turns on Rome.
~3 hrs0 mono.
Timon of Athens
A generous rich man, ruined and abandoned by his friends, curses mankind from the wilderness.
~2 hrs0 mono.
Titus Andronicus
A Roman general and his enemy trade escalating atrocities in a spiral of revenge.
~2.5 hrs0 mono.
Uncle Vanya
On a failing country estate, a family confronts wasted years and quiet despair — and decides to keep living anyway.
~2 hrs3 mono.
Cyrano de Bergerac
A brilliant swordsman-poet with an enormous nose woos the woman he loves in another man's name.
~2.5 hrs1 mono.
Medea
Betrayed by the husband she gave up everything for, a sorceress takes the most terrible revenge imaginable.
~1.5 hrs1 mono.
Antigone
A young woman defies the king to bury her brother, and pays for obeying a higher law.
~1.5 hrs1 mono.
Hedda Gabler
Trapped in a marriage she despises, a general's daughter reaches for power over one human destiny.
~2 hrs1 mono.
Pygmalion
A phonetics professor bets he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess — and never counts the cost to her.
~2 hrs2 mono.
Tartuffe
A pious con-man worms his way into a gullible household and nearly walks off with the wife, the daughter, and the house.
~2 hrs1 mono.
The Hairy Ape
A stoker who ruled the ship's belly is called a beast by a rich girl, and goes looking for where he belongs.
~1.5 hrs1 mono.
Anna Christie
A woman with a past she's ashamed of returns to the father and the sea she never knew, and falls in love anyway.
~1.5 hrs3 mono.
Beyond the Horizon
Two brothers trade the lives they were meant for over one woman, and both are ruined by the wrong choice.
~1.5 hrs2 mono.
The Lower Depths
The residents of a flophouse argue about truth and comforting lies while their lives fall apart around them.
~1.5 hrs5 mono.
Man and Superman
A confirmed bachelor with radical ideas is relentlessly, cheerfully hunted into marriage by the woman who wants him.
~1.5 hrs4 mono.
The Playboy of the Western World
A timid boy claims he killed his father and becomes a village hero — until the father walks back in.
~1.5 hrs3 mono.
Riders to the Sea
An old island woman who has given every son to the sea waits to lose the last one.
~1.5 hrs2 mono.