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General Performance days & times:
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM, and Sundays at 2:30pm. 

Ticket Prices:

Seating areas: Main Floor Seats, Box Seats (on floor) and Balcony Seats

Regular Adult Ticket Prices range from $25-$49 depending on the show, the day of the show, ticket availability and the seating area.

Discount Ticket Options:

$20 for Thursday Previews (See online calendar for specific dates)

$24 for Friday Previews (See online calendar for specific dates)

• Student ticket prices: $20 General Admission Tickets on Thursdays / $20 
• Balcony tickets on Fridays & Sundays. $5 off Floor & Box tickets on Fridays & Sundays (No student discounts on Saturdays)
• Educator prices: $5 off per adult price level per night (Not valid on Saturday nights.)  
• Military Discount: $3 off adult ticket price
• Senior Discount: $3 off adult ticket price
• Group Discount (Parties of 10 or more): $3 off adult ticket price

Purchase Tickets Online for most performances at www.shakespearetavern.com 

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Directed by Artistic Director Jeff Watkins
Produced by Andrew Houchins

$20 General Admission Preview Thursday January 9, 2025

$24 General Admission Preview Friday January 10, 2025

Runs January 11-26, 2025

Can four young men attempt to honor their pledge to avoid love, food, drink and sleep, for the sake of becoming more intellectual and contemplative?  Not in Shakespeare’s world!  After four young women arrive on the scene, the result is far from a blissful pondering of noble deeds and nobler thoughts.  Join us for muscovites, masks, and lessons about love in this lyrical comedy.

Join us for a post show Q&A on Sunday January 19, 2025

Dramatis Personae

Berowne – O’Neil Delapenha

Rosaline – Patty de la Garza

King of Navarre – Kenneth Wigley

Princess of France – Amanda Lindsey McDonald

Don Adriano de Armado – Luis R. Hernandez

Dumaine – Tyshawn Gooden

Jacquenetta – Sarah Hack

Katherine – Laila Henderson 

Moth -Anna Holland

Longaville – Evan Judway 

Sir Nathaniel/Forester/First French Lord – Adam King 

Costard – Nick Leonard

Holofernes/Second French Lord – Trevor Poli 

Boyet – Mary Ruth Ralston 

Maria – Alejandra Ruiz 

Dull/Mercade – Jeffrey Zwartjes 

Love’s Labour’s Lost Synopsis

Ferdinand, King of Navarre, and three of his lords, have sworn to study for three years during which no woman shall come within a mile of them. They are swayed almost at once by the arrival of the Princess of France, with three of her ladies, to discuss her father’s debts to the King.

Costard, the clown, told to deliver two letters, muddles them so that a letter from Armado, a courtier, to the village wench, Jaquenetta, is read to the Princess and her ladies, and a love sonnet from Berowne to Rosaline is read (for Jaquenetta) by Sir Nathanial, the curate. Holofernes, the schoolmaster, tells the girl to show it to Ferdinand. She does so just when, in succession, the young men have caught each other reciting love-rhymes. Berowne, in an irresistible lyrical speech, claims that love belongs to study, that women’s eyes are “the books, the arts, the academes,/That show, contain and nourish all the world.”

Presently they meet the ladies – who have taken pains to trick them – in an unsuccessful mock-Russian entertainment. At length they are settled, watching the masque of the Nine Worthies, arranged by Armado and Holofernes, when Marcade brings news to the Princes that her father has died. She and her ladies prepare to leave, having put their lovers on probation, with tasks for a year and a day before they can come together. But before departing they listen in the twilight to the villagers’ songs of spring and winter – the cuckoo and the owl.

-The Pocket Companion to Shakespeare’s Plays by J C Trewin

General Performance days & times:
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM, and Sundays at 2:30pm. 

Ticket Prices:

Seating areas: Main Floor Seats, Box Seats (on floor) and Balcony Seats

Regular Adult Ticket Prices range from $25-$49 depending on the show, the day of the show, ticket availability and the seating area.

Discount Ticket Options:

$20 for Thursday Previews (See online calendar for specific dates)

$24 for Friday Previews (See online calendar for specific dates)

• Student ticket prices: $20 General Admission Tickets on Thursdays / $20 
• Balcony tickets on Fridays & Sundays. $5 off Floor & Box tickets on Fridays & Sundays (No student discounts on Saturdays)
• Educator prices: $5 off per adult price level per night (Not valid on Saturday nights.)  
• Military Discount: $3 off adult ticket price
• Senior Discount: $3 off adult ticket price
• Group Discount (Parties of 10 or more): $3 off adult ticket price

Purchase Tickets Online for most performances at www.shakespearetavern.com