Two Gentlemen of Verona
Adapted from William Shakespeare by John Guare & Mel Shapiro
Lyrics by John Guare & music by Galt MacDermot
November 2017
The Latvian Society Theater
A rock adaptation of Shakespeare to kick off the season.
In 1971, after the success of House of Blue Leaves, Mel Shapiro and the Public Theater asked John Guare to help transform Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona into a rock musical. This madcap tale of love, friendship, and betrayal won Guare the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and beat out Grease and Follies for Best Musical.
Creative Team
Brenna Geffers … Director
Cast
Anthony Crosby, Emily Fernandez, Michael Lienhard, Sol Madariaga, Aubrey McKinney, Francesca Nong, Katherine Perry, Philip Wilson, Joe Wozniak, & Camille Young
About John Guare
John Guare (born February 5, 1938) is an American playwright and screenwriter.
Guare’s plays include The House of Blue Leaves (NY Drama Critics Circle Award); Six Degrees of Separation (NY Drama Critics Circle Award; Olivier Award, Best Play); Landscape of the Body; Two Gentlemen of Verona (TONY Award); and A Free Man of Color (Pulitzer Prize finalist). He wrote the script for the film Atlantic City (Oscar nomination, Venice Film Festival Best Film).
He is the recipient of the 2003 PEN Master Dramatist Award; the 2004 Gold Medal in Drama, American Academy of Arts and Letters; and the 2005 Obie Sustained Excellence. He has taught playwriting at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, NYU, and Juilliard. He is the co-editor of the Lincoln Center Theater Review.