September 19, 20, 22 & 26 - 29.
Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7 PM
Fridays & Saturdays at 8 PM

The Vineyard Playhouse extends its summer season with a new play by theatre luminary Robert Brustein.

The year is 1593. The plague has closed the Elizabethan playhouses and William Shakespeare takes refuge in the Mermaid Tavern, writing sonnets. The playwright is tangled up in sexual, artistic, and political intrigue with other young Elizabethan men and women - poet and rival Christopher Marlowe, Emilia, the mysterious Dark Lady, and Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of Southampton. The English Channel is Robert Brustein's comic and provocative imagining of Shakespeare's coming of age as a playwright.

Wednesdays & Thursdays 7 PM
Fridays & Saturdays 8 PM
(there will be no show on September 21, in observance of Yom Kippur)