“The classics made relevant with superb acting and clever staging.”
— The New Yorker
“An extraordinarily inventive and disciplined outfit...”
— The New York Times
“Aquila’s productions are beautifully spoken, dramatically revealing and crystalline in effect.”
— The New Yorker
“... a classically trained, modernly hip troupe...”
— The New York Times
“...this particular blocking suggests something deeper, more mysterious than an artists and his muse: the father-daughter relationship.” (Aquila Theatre’s The Tempest)”
— Eric Minton Shakespearances.com
“Aquila Theatre brings intelligence and laser-sharp line readings to this eminently enjoyable modern-dress take on Shakespeare’s comedy.”
— The LA Times Critics Choice
“Professional theater companies that focus almost exclusively on the classical Greek drama are rare, and there are few among them that can mount productions with the iconoclastic and high-voltage energy of the Aquila Theatre Company and will win praise from critics and scholars alike.”
— The New York Times
“...making Shakespeare relevant and accessible to today’s audiences.”
— The Bermuda Sun
“Takes the classics off their pedestals and presents them as live action, flesh and blood adventures.””
— Dramatics Magazine
“...one of the most inventive and daring theater companies in the country...”
— The Lincoln Journal Star
“Aquila ‘changes the perceptions of classical drama by freeing the spirit of the original text’ for modern audiences.”
Arts Midwest today announced $1 million in grants to 40 nonprofit, professional theater companies across 26 states, plus the District of Columbia, to perform the works of William Shakespeare for students through Shakespeare in American Communities. The awards mark the fifteenth consecutive year of Shakespeare in American Communities, a national program managed by Arts Midwest in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
Listen to Chairman Adams discuss the impact of the ancient Greeks and Aquila Theatre's "WarStories," presented November 11th, 2014, Veteran's Day, at New York University's Hemmerdinger Hall, on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show here.
Backstage names Aquila Theatre one of twelve touring theater companies making a difference in the United States with its annual national tour, continuing to bring the greatest works to the greatest number.
Aquila Theatre's A Female Philoctetes and You|Stories is featured in Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities March/April 2015 Volume 36, No. 2.
...Congratulations to Aquila Theatre for the highly entertaining, innovative, and energizing spectacle, and for reminding us of a power and universal message worth remembering: life can be turned into an emotional hell when status and wealth are favored over true love, and revenge is chosen over forgiveness.” (Aquila Theatre’s Wuthering Heights)
"An ancient Greek play about the wounds of war is getting a new angle in A Female Philoctetes - a production made up of mostly Iraq and Afghanistan veterans."
Listen to the story here on NPR's "All Things Considered."
Arts Midwest today announced $1 million in grants to 40 nonprofit, professional theater companies across 26 states, plus the District of Columbia, to perform the works of William Shakespeare for students through Shakespeare in American Communities. The awards mark the fifteenth consecutive year of Shakespeare in American Communities, a national program managed by Arts Midwest in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.