We had front row center seats last night to see the Shakespeare Theater Company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew and to simply say it was good doesn’t do it justice. It was the finest Shakespeare production I’ve ever seen. The entire cast was brilliant, highlighted by Ian Merrill Peakes’s bravura performance as Petruchio, a performance that, had it been delivered in a big budget Broadway production, would have won him a Tony. My facial muscles hurt by the final curtain because I’d spent the entire show grinning from ear to ear. It was riotous, rip-roaring fun and it answered the question of why we (or anyway, I) go to the theater: to enjoy that feeling of giddy delight that only a live theatrical performance of this kind can deliver. See it if you can.
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