Milwaukee Repertory Theater is dedicated to presenting new playwrights, reliving classics, and commissioning translations of classic and contemporary foreign playwrights.

Not that this production reimagines Shakespeare's play as a prom gone wrong; the Pearl company is dedicated to the opposite approach, presenting classics as the playwrights wrote them.

For more than a decade, he has said he has wanted to create a nonprofit acting company that would present theatrical classics.

Whether spectacle belongs in nonprofit regional theaters - whose numbers grew most rapidly in the 1960's with the anti-Broadway impetus of presenting classics and ensemble-based work - is a continuing debate.

N Map A favourite with Norwegian families during Christmas and on17 May, the Theatercafeen, directly across from the National Theatre, presents Norwegian classics in posh Viennese surroundings.

Today the theatre houses three stages/ venues and presents approximately 20 productions each year, both international and national classics, musicals and contemporary drama, as well as children's theatre.

Pearl, true to its mission of presenting classics without much embellishment, keeps this work as spare as can be.

But in recent years it has become known for its devotion to presenting rare modern-dance classics by black choreographers.

The company aimed to demystify theatre by presenting contemporary classics in informal spaces, mainly pubs.

He attended Bristol University studying English and Drama, where he set up his own theatre company with fellow student Chris Grady, presenting Shakespeare and related classics.