Intimate Shakespeare & Chamber Music
What’s On
Burnt Cove Church
Stonington, Maine
Aug 1 – 3, 2025
Private Events
The Masque of Night is currently available for holiday parties & corporate events. We partner with several venues & chefs in NYC and we can also come to your preferred location.
“There are a million ways that Romeo & Juliet has been performed, but there is something so uniquely sweet and endearing about The Masque of Night, that sets it apart from the rest. With an earnest cast, pitch-perfect musical accompaniment, and distinctive setting, this one-hour production of Romeo & Juliet is a delicious bite-sized confection of romance and tragedy.”
– Austin Fimmano, playstosee.com
Music Master Class
A Musical Exploration of Shakespeare
Integrating Improvisation, Technology & Text
With Anna Bikales and Flavio Gaete
In the fall of 2024, New Place Players was invited to do a residency at the University of Akron along with partner company Rubber City Theatre.
Music Director Flavio Gaete (viola, piano, synthesizers) and Principal Musician Anna Bikales (harp) gave a master class about their work in The Masque of Night, improvising live chamber music to go along with Shakespeare’s text, performed by actors Clara Tristan (Juliet) and Maximilian Macdonald (Romeo).
Get in touch with us if you’re interested in bringing us to your class room (high school and college level).
“New Place Players, the innovative actors-and-musicians ensemble that performs Shakespeare with music and without a fourth wall, presented a condensed version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Brilliantly directed by Craig Bacon and Janina Picard, the performance focused on the main scenes between the two protagonists, interspersed with modern-day songs.”
Support Us…
Help us bring The Masque of Night to a New Place – a theater, a home, a vineyard, etc. – in NYC and elsewhere.
Your donation will not only cover production costs but also ensure that we offer exceptional, intimate theater experiences to audiences far and wide. Your generous contribution, large or small, will directly support these critical aspects of our production. And by helping us cover these costs, you are playing a vital role in bringing classical theater to life and enriching our cultural landscape.
Thank You!
“How to infuse the most well-known of well-known Shakespeare plays with new energy, making the age-old story of star-crossed lovers as fresh and captivating as it was when the audience first encountered it (probably in high school)? The New Place Players’ The Masque of Night, a cabaret of songs (some Elizabethan, mostly contemporary) interspersed with Romeo and Juliet’s most iconic set-pieces, does just that.”
