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Shakespeare's plays are being played constantly throughout the English-speaking world. Every day, one of his plays is being performed somewhere, and probably in more than one place. Right now (late 2010) on Broadway Al Pacino is playing in Merchant of Venice (last year it was Jude Law's Hamlet, now playing in LA). Professional theatre companies (and there is usually one of these in any city larger than 300,000) frequently include a Shakespeare play in their season. Many companies, like the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival specialise in putting on Shakespeare.
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What plays did Shakespeare play in when he was an actor?
The only plays we know for sure Shakespeare played in are Jonson's Every Man in His Humour and Sejanus. We don't know what parts Shakespeare played though. He also played in many of the plays he wrote himself, (it says so in the First Folio), but it doesn't say if there were any he didn't act in.
Why is the Globe Theatre associated with William shackspear?
Shakespeare was a part owner of the Globe, and belonged to the company who regularly played there. As a result, many Shakespeare plays were played at the Globe.
When was Shakespeare's last play written?
We don't know exactly which play was Shakespeare's last, but in any case all of the plays have been played many many times in theatres all over the world.
How many actressses performed in shakespeares plays?
Shakespeare's plays have been performed continually for most of the last 400 years, and for 350 of them (since 1660) the female parts in the plays have been played by actresses. Starting in the nineteenth century, a number of the male parts were played by actresses too. So you can tell that there have been hundreds of thousands of women who have played in Shakespeare's plays.
What was a famous building used for many of Shakespeare's plays?
The Elizabethan theater was used for many of Shakespeare's plays.
