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If you think you know David Mamet, think again. This famously terse playwright has reinvented himself as a master of farce. Romance is a courtroom comedy that takes no prisoners in its quest for total political incorrectness. Mamet-veteran Scott Zigler (Copenhagen, The Old Neighborhood, The Cripple of Inishmaan) directs this sublimely vicious comedy. Learn more...

Channeling a dramatic range of interview subjects, from artists and philosophers to healthcare professionals and survivors of the Rwandan genocide, Anna Deavere Smith asks a question for our age: How do we pursue grace and kindness in a competitive and sometimes distressing world? Generous and powerful in its vision, Let Me Down Easy explores the resourcefulness of the human spirit. Learn more...

Renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt and playwright Charles Mee have joined forces to produce a midsummer comedy of love based on Cardenio, a play by Shakespeare that was lost soon after its first performance. Shakespeare's fingerprints are all over this sparkling new play, from the crisscrossing of suspicious lovers to a cunning Iago-like meddler, from soliloquies (reimagined as wedding toasts) to overheard conversations, from the dream of passion to the pleasures of music and dance. Learn more...

One of the greatest theatrical studies of tyranny, revolution, and civil war, Julius Caesar is also a highly personal play - a breathless, gripping portrayal of friendships and alliances torn apart by political ambition and the intoxicating effects of power. Talented young French director Arthur Nauzyciel directs this production of the Shakespearean masterwork for American Repertory Theatre. Learn more...

In 1941, German physicist Werner Heisenberg traveled to Copenhagen to meet his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. Old friends and colleagues, they suddenly found themselves on opposite sides in a world war and embroiled in a race to create the atom bomb. Michael Frayn's play about their historic meeting has become a classic of modern drama--a meditation on friendship and moral responsibility. Learn more...

Acclaimed actress Nilaja Sun embodies multiple characters in her touching and riotous tour-de-force exploration of the public school system seen through the eyes of a young and idealistic teaching artist. Running for almost a year to sold out audiences in New York, No Child... has won numerous awards and now makes its Boston premiere at the Loeb Drama Center. Learn more...

American Repertory Theatre and Theatre de la Jeune Lune present Figaro, a masterful combination of Mozart's opera and Beaumarchais' comedies of seduction and intrigue. Hiding from the French Revolution in a deserted mansion across from the Bastille, an aging Count Almaviva and his servant Figaro recall their earlier days in Seville. Learn more...

The American Repertory Theatre and Theatre de la Jeune Lune present Don Juan Giovanni, a unique and highly-acclaimed production that combines the musical brilliance of Mozart with the sparkling wit of Moliere. Don Juan Giovanni intertwines Mozart's opera Don Giovanni with Moliere's Don Juan in a cross-country road trip that skewers notions of love, sex, and hypocrisy. Learn more...

Spooner and Hirst are two aging writers, locked in the no man's land of late middle age. They meet in a pub and return to Hirst's home for a late-night session of drinking, witty banter, and sinister power games. Pinter's elegant, haunting play is part mystery drama, part homage to the ghosts of the past and the fiction of memory. Learn more...

Inspired by the vivid world of the Victorian music hall, this staging of Oliver Twist uses the original language of Dickens' novel to dramatize one of the most deeply felt stories about childhood ever written. A cast of unforgettable characters brings the underworld of 19th-century London back to life--a city teeming with images of danger and fear--all seen through the eyes of an astonished child. Learn more...

Part political thriller, part family drama, Jean Racine's play is set in the palace at the center of the Roman empire, where private and public worlds collide. The young emperor Nero is running wild, leaving a mass of political and personal scandals in his wake. He decides to shed his wife Octavia and instead marry Junia, the beloved of his half-brother Britannicus. When Nero's mother Agrippina steps in to prevent him, chaos and tragedy soon follow. Learn more...

You've never seen an Earnest like this! Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of identity fraud receives a riotous new treatment from Ridiculusmus, the comedy duo, who play all the parts, from Earnest to Lady Bracknell, themselves, just the two of them. This virtuosic interpretation of Wilde's irrepressible caper has been received with wild acclaim around the world, and the American Repertory Theatre is delighted to welcome it to the States for the first time. Learn more...

Based on Wim Wenders' unforgettable film, Wings of Desire is about the borders, visible and invisible, that divide us; borders between East and West, between angels and people, between two human beings. Damiel, a guardian angel, is weary of his eternal existence observing and cataloging the ways of mankind. When he falls in love with a lonely trapeze artist, he resolves to sacrifice his wings and his immortality to join her on earth -- and to taste human life. Learn more...