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THE PEARL THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to begin the third production of its 25 th Anniversary Season, Shakespeare's capricious comedy, Twelfth Night (Or What You Will). The opening night of THE PEARL THEATRE COMPANY'S production will be on February 2 nd , the same day as the first recorded performance of the play in 1602. A harrowing shipwreck separates twins Viola and Sebastian-but tragedy turns to comedy when they wash up on the shores of Illyria, a land turned upside-down by passion and a colorful cast of joyful, melancholy characters. In THE PEARL THEATRE COMPANY'S production of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's madcap dance of mistaken identities, cunning plans, and miraculous discoveries, the only real mistake to make is not to love at all. The Play ponders love lost and found and explores the troubled relationship between disguise and desire. Washed up on distant shores, Viola mourns for a brother drowned in a shipwreck she herself narrowly escaped. Viola, however, is no languisher and quickly improvises a plan, disguising herself as the young man 'Cesario,' taking service with Duke Orsino...and shaking the foundations of this strange world. Twelfth Night offers us a world lush and joyful, but twilit, where not everyone can participate in happily ever after-a world that ends in What You Will, the subtitle that reminds the audience not to take it all too seriously-it is a comedy after all. And as such it must be both what we want, and what we make of it. As is love. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare

The Pearl Theatre Company recently announced the third production of its 25th Anniversary Season, Shakespeare's capricious comedy, Twelfth Night (Or What You Will). The opening night of The Pearl Theatre Company?s production will be on February 2nd, the same day as the first recorded performance of the play in 1602.

THE PEARL THEATRE COMPANY (Shepard Sobel, Artistic Director; Shira Beckerman, Managing Director) is pleased to announce the inaugural production of its 2008/2009 Silver Anniversary Season, a world premiere translation of Sophocles' The Oedipus Cycle by two time PEN Literary Award finalist Peter Constantine.

THE PEARL THEATRE COMPANY (Shepard Sobel, Artistic Director; Shira Beckerman, Managing Director) is pleased to announce the inaugural production of its 2008/2009 Silver Anniversary Season, a world premiere translation of Sophocles' The Oedipus Cycle by two time PEN Literary Award finalist Peter Constantine.

For the first time under the leadership of Artistic Director Bonnie J. Monte, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present the American classic A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.

This fall, cries ofrevolt rock the Roman Capitol - and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey- in Shakespeare's brilliant political thriller, Julius Caesar. Loyalty,honor and betrayal collide in this searing tale of revolution, in which omensof doom and deadly conspiracies erupt into civil war, and leaders rise and falllike the tides.