Coming off a 3-week engagement in Nashville, praised by audiences and critics alike, The Nashville Shakespeare Festival is bringing Shakespeare's political thriller Julius Caesar, directed by Santiago Sosa and featuring Broadway veteran Chuck Wagner, to Murfreesboro for one weekend only.
This edgy, action-packed production tells the story of the assassination of Rome's charismatic dictator Julius Caesar in a compelling, Roman-noir re-imagining, where conspiracy thrives in the shadows and dark corners of the city.
"The timelessness and timeliness of this play never cease to amaze me. This is a 400-year-old play about people who lived over 2,000 years ago and yet their hopes, fears, ambitions, and sorrows are true and relatable today. The rhetoric resonates in our politically charged times," says Artistic Director, Denice Hicks.
The play will be Jan 31-Feb 2, 2019 at the Tucker Theatre on the MTSU campus, 615 Champion Way, Murfreesboro.
Show Times: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night at 7:30pm
Playing the role of Julius Caesar is veteran TV and Broadway actor, Chuck Wagner. Chuck has enjoyed an extensive career that spans 4 decades. Highlights include playing the title role in TV's science-fiction series Automan in the 1980's and several starring roles in some of Broadway's biggest hits like, Javert in Les Miserables, the Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and Rapunzel's Prince in the original cast of Sondheim's Into the Woods.
