2022-2023 Season Events

Nov 10 through 26, 2022
Classical Theatre Company returns to the great French playwright Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais with the local professional premiere The Marriage of Figaro.

Jan 12 through 28, 2023
An innovative staging of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's most famous Restoration comedy about gossip and power.
Past Seasons
CTC’s 13th season heralded our triumphant return to live performances since the pandemic, with 2 twentieth century productions: the 1920 play that coined the term “robot,” R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), and a theatrical staging of H.G.Wells’s groundbreaking radio broadcast, War of the Worlds.
- R.U.R.
- R.U.R.
- War of the Worlds
- War of the Worlds
- War of the Worlds
CTC was forced to cut short this 12th season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, despite this hurdle, the company was able to produce award-winning productions of Aristophanes’ Greek comedy, Lysistrata, and Henrik Ibsen’s rarely produced Peer Gynt.
- Lysistrata
- Lysistrata
- Lysistrata
- Peer Gynt
- Peer Gynt
- Peer Gynt
CTC’s 11th season consisted of the company’s second production of the great Sherlock Holmes in The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and adapted by Timothy N. Evers, as well as the local premier of Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West.
- Return of Sherlock Holmes
- Return of Sherlock Holmes
- Return of Sherlock Holmes
- The Fair Maid of the West
- The Fair Maid of the West
CTC’s 10th Anniversary Season was a politically charged one with productions of George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Henrik Ibsen’s drama An Enemy of the People, and the Russian farce The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol.
- Mrs. Warren’s Profession
- Mrs. Warren’s Profession
- Mrs. Warren’s Profession
- An Enemy of the People
- An Enemy of the People
- An Enemy of the People
- The Government Inspector
- The Government Inspector
- The Government Inspector
In our 2016-2017 season, CTC was honored to receive the American Theatre Wing’s prestigious National Theatre Company Grant Award while bringing to the stage Chekhov’s The Bear & The Proposal, August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata, and the local premiere of Beaumarchais’ The Barber of Seville.
- The Bear & The Proposal
- The Bear & The Proposal
- The Bear & The Proposal
- The Ghost Sonata
- The Ghost Sonata
- The Ghost Sonata
- The Barber of Seville
- The Barber of Seville
- The Barber of Seville
Our productions in our eighth season saw us return to Henrik Ibsen with A Doll’s House, and the Greeks with The Birds. Plus, we were thrilled to offer Shakespeare’s Henry V on the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt.
- Henry V
- Henry V
- Henry V
- A Doll’s House
- A Doll’s House
- A Doll’s House
- The Birds
- The Birds
- The Birds
In our first season at our home in Chelsea Market CTC produced our brand new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic A Christmas Carol. This was followed up with a Houston premiere of The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes written by Arthur Conan Doyle himself, and lastly we produced the Houston premiere of Anton Chekhov’s dark comedy The Cherry Orchard.
- The Cherry Orchard
- The Cherry Orchard
- The Cherry Orchard
- The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
- The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
- The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
- A Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Carol
In a season of English masterpieces, CTC offered Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a Houston premiere of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, and Oscar Wilde’s eternal The Importance of Being Earnest.
- Doctor Faustus
- Doctor Faustus
- Doctor Faustus
- Hamlet
- Hamlet
- Hamlet
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- The Importance of Being Earnest
CTC kicked off our fifth season by rounding out the great early modern dramatists by presenting August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. This was followed by a Houston professional premiere of Alfred Jarry’s absurdist play Ubu Roi, and lastly a re-envisioning of our inaugural production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
- Miss Julie
- Miss Julie
- Miss Julie
- Ubu Roi
- Ubu Roi
- Ubu Roi
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merchant of Venice
CTC presented three productions in our fourth season including a return to French farce with Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love, a foray into one of the fathers of modern drama: Anton Chekhov with his play Uncle Vanya, and William Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest.
- The Tempest
- The Tempest
- The Tempest
- Uncle Vanya
- Uncle Vanya
- Uncle Vanya
- The Triumph of Love
- The Triumph of Love
- The Triumph of Love
In our 2010-2011 season, we presented our take on Ibsen, Shaw and Shakespeare and a Reading Series that included Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens and The Doctor of Love by Moliere.
- Candida
- Candida
- Candida
- Ghosts
- Ghosts
- Ghosts
- As You Like It
- King Lear
- King Lear
In our 2009-2010 Season, we presented One-Man Hamlet adapted from William Shakespeare and Tartuffe by Moliere Onstage, and Reading Series presentations of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, The Second Shepherd’s Play by Anonymous, and Cliziaby Niccolo Machiavelli.
- Tartuffe
- Tartuffe
- Tartuffe
- Hamlet
- Hamlet
- Hamlet
In our 2008-2009 season, we presented Shylock, the Jew of Venice adapted from William Shakespeare Onstage, and Reading Series presentations of Benedictus by Motti Lerner,The Second Shepherd’s Play by Anonymous, and The Triumph of Love by Pierre de Marivaux.
- Shylock
- Shylock
- Shylock
- Antigone
- Antigone
- Antigone
Reading Series
Watch our 90 second video on our Annual reading Series with Artistic Director John Johnston.