Director David Muse discusses his production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.  The world’s greatest and most enduring love story, Romeo and Juliet follows its star-crossed lovers as they hurtle from their first shy glances to their last heartrending kiss. Caught between their feuding families, Romeo and Juliet desperately struggle to build a world insulated from the violence, but their love races toward a final confrontation with fate. Inspired by the Elizabethan tradition of all-male casts, Muse stages this poetic masterwork as Shakespeare would have, with men playing all of the roles.  The productions runs September 9 to October 12, 2008, in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall (610 F St. NW).

The Shakespeare Theatre Company explores Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid through its discussion series Classics in Context.  This podcast features James Collins, Professor of History, Georgetown University, and Heather Nathans, Associate Professor of Theatre, University of Maryland.  The Imaginary Invalid ran June 10 to August 2, 2008.