Historic Timeline - The Upstart Crow Theatre Company

November, 2016

by Arthur Miller The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692/93. Miller wrote the play as

February, 2017

King Lear

by William Shakespeare King Lear and the Fool in the Storm by William Dyce (1806–1864) — the depiction of the heath of a popular and critical fallacy of interpretation.[1] King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It depicts the grad

April, 2017

Dark of the Moon

by Howard Richardson This perennial favorite is based on the haunting folk ballad of “Barbara Allen.” Employing a large cast and imaginative settings in the Smoky Mountains, it recounts the story of John, a strange “witch boy”

October, 2017

Richard III

by William Shakespeare Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1593. It depicts the Machiavellianrise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of E

December, 2017

Under Milk Wood

by Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for the stage. A film version, Under Milk Wood directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released in 1972, and another adaptation of th

April, 2018

Playboy of the Western World

by John Millington Synge On the west coast of County Mayo[1] Christy Mahon stumbles into Flaherty’s tavern. There he claims that he is on the run because he killed his own father by driving a loy into his head. Flaherty

June, 2018

Dear Brutus

by J. M. Barrie An odd assortment of guests are warned against going into the woods for it is Midsummer Eve (there is no woods in the neighborhood, but legend says that it sometimes appears). A philanderer, his young wife and the current object of hi

August, 2018

The Lion in Winter

by James Goldman Set during Christmas 1183 at Henry II of England’s castle in Chinon, Anjou, Angevin Empire, the play opens with the arrival of Henry’s wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom he has had imprisoned since 1173. The story concerns t

December, 2018

Learned Ladies

by Molière Two young people, Henriette and Clitandre, are in love, but in order to marry, they must overcome an obstacle: the attitude of Henriette’s family. Her sensible father and uncle are in favour of the marriage; but unfortunately her fa