Completing the Canon

Our new long-term project: Completing the Canon

Shakespeare wrote somewhere around 38 plays that we know of. (A few others are in dispute, or are lost, or may have been collaborations with other writers.) ISC has so far performed about 27 of them in one form or another -- which is pretty good. But that still leaves a significant number of plays that we've never done. So we're going to change that.

We're going to do them all!

We're setting a new long-term goal of Completing the Canon -- working through the plays we haven’t done until we’ve done all of Shakespeare’s plays.

(We won't ONLY do plays we haven't done before -- we'll continue to revisit some favorites along the way -- but the plays we haven't done yet will feature prominently in our programming until we've finished them all.)

So far we've done:

THE WINTER'S TALE
March 7-9 and 12-16, 2025 at Kitchen Theatre Company

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
July 18-21 and 24-28, 2024

Make sure to catch each of these rare plays as it gets performed!


ISC's programs are made possible by:

  • the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature
  • the Tompkins County Tourism Program