"The Winter's Tale," which alternates in repertory with "Merchant," features some charming gull-like bird puppets, carried on sticks.
The two parts of "Angels, Millennium Approacheses" and "Perestroika," will alternate in repertory from the start of performances to closing night, scheduled for Dec. 19.
The two parts of "Angels in America," titled "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika," will alternate in repertory from the start of performances and will be directed by Michael Greif, above right with Mr. Kushner and a Tony Award nominee for the musicals "Next to Normal," "Grey Gardens" and "Rent".
The choice of alternating productions in repertory was yet another challenge for the cast and crew: "The hard part was going long periods in between working on specific scenes.
But if "Macbeth" is staged often enough to invite comparison, the same is even more true of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which is alternating with the Scottish tragedy for another six weeks or so in the Globe repertory even as the director Michael Grandage opens his own West End production of the same play on Sept. 17.
At the moment, he is alternating between the title character in "Richard III" and Countess Olivia in "Twelfth Night," in an all-male repertory production that includes the actor and writer Stephen Fry. Two hours before curtain, Rylance bounded into a cavernous backstage area fitted as a rec room.
Among the productions now running in repertory at the Wharton estate are "Romeo and Juliet" on the outdoor mainstage and "Coriolanus," directed by Ms. Packer, alternating with "Jack and Jill," a contemporary play by Jane Martin.
He sold his story to a tabloid newspaper to help meet these costs - thus triggering the further ire of Granada - and went to Canada, where he was in weekly repertory alternating between Toronto and Vancouver.
In a true repertory theater, Ms. Copeland would alternate roles, but don't let a privilege go unacknowledged.
He covered the walls of his room with images of Shakespearean characters, ordered through the Times, and, in a toy theatre, ran a rotating repertory, in which Victorian pantomime alternated with a miniature version of Olivier's "Hamlet," performed by tiny cutouts of Olivier, Jean Simmons, and Stanley Holloway.
