Kevin Sprague Tina Packer and Nigel Gore in “Women of Will.â€For more than 15 years, the director and actress Tina Packer has been shaping a theater piece exploring the likes of Desdemona, Rosalind, Juliet, Kate and other women characters in Shakespeare, a population that she estimates is outnumbered more than four to one by men.
The ever-evolving show, “Women of Will,†is now coming to New York for the first time. Previews begin on Jan. 27 at the Gym at Judson for an Off-Broadway run scheduled to go through June 2, the creators said on Monday.
Ms. Packer, the founder and former artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., wrote and will act in the piece along with Nigel Gore. Eric Tucker is the director and Sarah Hancock the producer.
The show, which focuses on six Shakespeare plays, has previously played in Lenox, the Denver and Boston areas and most recently at the Prague Shakespeare Festival in the Czech Republic, according to a news release.
