"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
- Romeo and Juliet, II.ii
 elcome! You have stumbled across the archival website of The Underground Shakespeare Company. The Undergroundlings brought fun, frequent, no-fuss productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to the University of Pennsylvania from 2001-2019. A history of the company's productions can be seen below. |
Show History in alphabetical order by show title, with performance years.
The company performed 32 distinct titles (four non-Shakespeare).
This includes only full productions. It excludes scenes (Cafe) and special events.
The company performed 32 distinct titles (four non-Shakespeare).
This includes only full productions. It excludes scenes (Cafe) and special events.
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 2001, 2007, 2012, 2016 |
| All's Well That Ends Well | 2002 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | 2012* |
| As You Like It | 2002, 2018 |
| Cymbeline | 2011 |
| Doctor Faustus (C. Marlowe) | 2004 |
| Hamlet | 2007, 2016 |
| Henry IV | 2018 |
| Henry V | 2003 |
| Julius Caesar | 2007, 2015 |
| King John | 2021*** |
| King Lear | 2006 |
| Love's Labours Lost | 2005 |
| Macbeth | 2004, 2009, 2015, 2018 |
| Measure for Measure | 2003, 2012 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 2001, 2006, 2013, 2017* |
| Othello | 2006, 2014 |
| Richard II | 2002, 2016** |
| Richard III | 2008, 2015 |
| Romeo and Juliet | 2003, 2011, 2017 |
| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Long, Singer, and Winfield) | 2007 |
| The Duchess of Malfi (J. Webster) | 2011 |
| The Merchant of Venice | 2004 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | 2008 |
| The Revenger's Tragedy (T. Middleton) | 2010 |
| The Taming of the Shrew | 2009, 2013 |
| The Tempest | 2008 |
| The Winter's Tale | 2005, 2016 |
| Titus Andronicus | 2005, 2010 |
| Troilus and Cressida | 2014 |
| Twelfth Night | 2001, 2009, 2013, 2017 |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona | 2010 |
| *Substantially Modified / Adapted | |
| **Reading | |
| ***Virtual (Zoom) Reading |