The Taming of the Shrew at Players Theatre

Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew finds love in a hopeless place when one of the most unlikely romantic couples in all of literature -- Katherine and Petruchio -- meet and proceed on the rocky path toward marriage. The hilarity begins when wealthy Italian merchant Baptista Minola decrees that the younger of his two daughters cannot be wed before her strong-willed, less popular and less beautiful sister is married. The problem is that no man in Padua is willing to marry ill-tempered Katherine. That is, until the fortune-hunting Petruchio, newly arrived from Verona, agrees to woo and wed Katherine (for a sizable dowry, of course). What follows is a "battle of the sexes" story that set the standard for nearly all to follow. Watch as sparks fly in this production of The Taming of the Shrew, headed to New York's Players Theatre as part of Shakespeare Off-Broadway.