April 9-13 & April 17-20, 2025

Patrick Page, Creator & Performer

Simon Godwin, Director

An Octopus Theatricals Production

Dubbed “The villain of Broadway” by Playbill, Tony Award® Nominee and Grammy Award® Winner Patrick Page has never shied away from exploring his dark side. Now, with this tour de force show, he turns his attention to the twisted motivation and hidden humanity at the heart of Shakespeare’s greatest villains. Moving swiftly through the Shakespeare canon, Page illuminates the playwright's ever-evolving conception of evil by delving into more than a dozen of his most wicked creations. Thrilling, biting, hilarious, and enlightening, what Page delivers is a masterclass on the most terrifying subject of them all: human nature.

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“A force of nature! One of America's greatest classical actors.”

— The Wall Street Journal

Patrick Page received a Tony Award nomination and a Grammy Award for his work in Hadestown on Broadway after starring as Hades in the off-Broadway, Citadel Theatre and National Theatre productions.  Other Broadway: The Inquisitor in Saint Joan, Valentina in Casa Valentina, Buckley in Time to Kill, Adult Men in Spring Awakening, DeGuiche in Cyrano de Bergerac, Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons, Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar, Scar in The Lion King, The Grinch in Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, and Mackie in The Kentucky Cycle. Other New York: Cymbeline in Cymbeline (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte), Max in The Sound of Music  (Carnegie Hall). Regional: Page created the roles of Dom Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Jolla Playhouse and Papermill Playhouse, and Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic in Rajiiv Joseph’s Archduke at the Mark Taper Forum. He is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe in San Diego (Cyrano, Malvolio), and the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C. (King Lear, Coriolanus, Prospero, Macbeth, Iago, Claudius). Film: Spirited for Apple+, In The Heights, Estella Scrooge, The Sixth Reel, I Am Michael. Television: Richard Clay on The Gilded Age for HBO; Octavius Ktratt in Schmigadoon; recurring on Elementary, Madam Secretary, Flesh and Bone and guest starring roles on Evil, NCIS: New Orleans, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, Chicago P.D., and Law and Order: S.V.U.

Simon is Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington and an Associate Director of the National Theatre, his recent King Lear with Patrick Page broke box office records.

During the pandemic, Simon worked with Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor on a film of Romeo and Juliet. Shown on PBS, the film won top prize at the Venice International TV Awards, the Golden Prague Award, and The Stage’s Digital Project of 2012. Previously at the NT, he has directed Man and Superman with Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma; Twelfth Night with Tamsin Greig; Antony and Cleopatra with Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo, and the world premiere of Simon Wood’s Hansard with Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings. For The Royal Shakespeare Company, productions have included Timon of Athens with Kathryn Hunter and Hamlet with Paapa Esseidu.

Simon has recently been appointed the Harman/Eisner Artist in Residence for the Aspen Festival. Later this year he will reunite with Ralph Fiennes as Macbeth in an international tour of Shakespeare’s dark masterpiece.

Theatre Sponsor:

Laurie and Bill Benensen 

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