CSC Artistic Director John Doyle and Tony Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz bring Shakespeare’s pastoral romance–with its lovers in disguise, troubadours in trouble, and some of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters–to life in this transporting production.

This production is 100 minutes. There is no intermission.

John Doyle’s new CSC production of As You Like It features Hannah Cabell in the role of Rosalind: one of Shakespeare’s most indomitable and beloved heroines. The production also features original music by Stephen Schwartz and a diverse cast of Broadway and Off-Broadway alumni. Midway through the production’s run, Hannah Cabell chatted with us about her approach to playing Rosalind, how much she enjoys Stephen Schwartz’s music, and that one time she got caught in the middle of a communist-fascist skirmish in Italy. Rosalind is one of Shakespeare’s most famous heroines, and a lot of different actresses have played her over the years. How did you approach the role? Did you look at what other actors have done or did you just try to make it your own? Well it’s funny because we use the Arden edition of the script and in the beginning of that edition there’s a long, long essay about all of the actresses that have played – I mean not all of them – but many of the famous ones that have played the role over the years. And one thing that stuck out with me in that essay was that some of them would get the Rosalinds right, and some would get the Ganymedes right, but it was very hard to get them …Read more