Julius Caesar

New York City’s innovative theatre ensemble for classical theater presents Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the cautionary tragedy uniquely explored as part of Ensemble Shakespeare Company’s Works in Progress initiative. Presented in the round the one-night-only working performance of Acts I, II, & III.1 will be followed by cocktails and conviviality. Julius Caesar tells the story of a murder that changed the course of Western civilization. Far more, however, than dramatizing a bloody assassination, the play invites us into the hearts and minds of the humans whose words, actions, and ambitions transformed their society and indeed our world. The play never decides who is right but invites the audience to engage with its debates on democracy, leadership, morality, and honor. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves…