The Acting Company and Play On Shakespeare have announced casting and dates for their 2025 repertory tour.
The tour will feature Christina Anderson's modern verse translation of William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, directed by The Acting Company’s Producing Director Devin Brain and produced in partnership with Play On Shakespeare; and August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, directed by Lili-Anne Brown.
The repertory cast will include J'Laney Allen (Twelfth Night) as Wolf and Dromio, Chuckie Benson (Spamilton) as Hambone and Dromio, Diana Coates (The Nacirema Society) as Luciana, Brian D. Coats (Jitney) as Holloway and others, Robert Cornelius (Jitney) as West and others, James Milord (King Hedley II) as Sterling and Antipholus, Jeffrey Rashad (A Christmas Carol in Harlem) as Antipholus, Michael A. Shepperd (Little Shop of Horrors) as Memphis and Dr. Pinch, and DeAnna Supplee (American Rot) as Risa and Adriana.
“Our directors Lili-Anne Brown and Devin Brain have assembled extraordinary actors for our national tour, and I’m thrilled! Both of these plays continue the rich heritage of repertory touring that The Acting Company has brought to our country for over 50 years," Acting Company Artistic Director Kent Gash said in a statement. "Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, translated by Christina Anderson and August Wilson’s Two Trains Running are accessible plays full of soaring language, terrific and surprising characters seeking places where they can belong, and people that they can belong to. I am especially pleased to pair August Wilson with William Shakespeare (and Christina Anderson), all iconoclastic poets of the theatre. Thanks to the commission by Play On Shakespeare, Christina Anderson’s vibrant translation of The Comedy of Errors highlights her contemporary syntax while being faithful to the classic original. All the comedy, clowning, hijinks, hilarity, and poetry are delightfully intact. In Wilson, Anderson and Shakespeare, language is the deepest expression of the soul and language soars, sings, and joyously moves us in live theatre as it does in no other medium.”
The tour will kick off at Ventura, California's Rubicon Theatre Company, with both titles running January 15-February 2.
Visit TheActingCompany.org for a full itinerary.
