Little Shakespeare Festival 2025

Frigid New York treads the Bard in a festival dedicated to offbeat riffs on the works of Williams Shakespeare, including three versions of Hamlet: Federico Mallet's soapy Hamlet: La Telenovela, performed in Spanish; Rachel Resnik's Hamlet's Dad, a comedic one-woman show; and Margaret Rose Caterisano's The Mousetrap, or Prince Hamlet wrote a dumb play and now we have to do it, which looks at the Danish tragedy from the perspective of the show's traveling players. Also on the lineup are Elsewhere Shakespeare Company's punked-up adaptation of the sexual-harrassment tale Measure for Measure; Rachel Weekley's Two Households, a queer solo take on Romeo and Juliet; Mark Sage's Tempestuous, a three-person drama inspired by The Tempest; Jay Whitehead and Daniel Judes's Unsex'd, in which a pair of Elizabeth boy actors compete to play Lady Macbeth; and the return of the improv comedy As You Will. Two Bard-adjacent offerings complete the slate: Sivan Raz's Anti-Gone, an optimistic spin on Sophoclean tragedy, and Michael Hagins's As You Wish It or The Bride Princess or What You Will, a Shakespeare-style parody of The Princess Bride.