Play On! Shakespeare Festival

Oregon Shakespeare Festival's three-year project, overseen by Lue Morgan Douthit, invited 36 playwrights—including many writers of color—to adapt the entire Shakespeare canon into contemporary English. New Yorkers can sample the results at CSC's series of readings. Participating writers in this massive undertaking include Christopher Chen, Migdalia Cruz, Amy Freed, Marcus Gardley, Hansol Jung, Ellen McLaughlin, Yvette Nolan, Lloyd Suh, Caridad Svich and Jeff Whitty. The casts include Pun Bandhu, Tina Benko, Jeff Biehl, Becca Blackwell, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Mark Blum, Yvette Clark, Angel Desai, Shannon DeVido, Vanessa Kai, Mia Katigbak, Bianca Leigh, Bobby Moreno, Gregg Mozgala, Diana Oh, Portia, Constance Shulman, Tony Torn, Zenzi Williams, Lisa Wolpe and Jade Wu.