The Taming of the Shrew

directed by Dan McCleary
on the Tabor Stage

January 30 – February 15, 2026

Fridays-Saturdays at 7:30 pm
Sundays at 3:00 pm
Preview is January 30

generously sponsored by The Sims Family Charitable Trust, James R. Humphreys, and Pat & Ernest Kelly

On Valentine’s Day night during World War II, a Manhattan radio station decides at the last minute it would be a good national morale-booster to replace regularly scheduled programming with a live performance of Shakespeare’s ribald love story with its acting company that thought it had been released for the night (already in their cups or out the door).  You get to see the backstage noir version of Shakespeare’s inducement to the wooing Kate-and-Petruchio comedy; and then the on-air performance, which the rest of the world will only hear (thank goodness).