A Bold and Modern New Adaptation
Caesar
Adapted by Tyler Dobrowsky
From Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Directed by Morgan Green
February 6-22, 2026
What would you do to protect your home?
Shakespeare’s classic political tragedy is reborn as a gripping contemporary thriller in this bold new adaptation by Tyler Dobrowsky. Caesar stays true to Shakespeare’s original language but trims the story to its leanest, most urgent core—cutting to the heart of ambition, authoritarianism, and the cost of protecting democracy.
Brutus, a principled Roman senator, joins a conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, fearing the rise of tyranny. But once the deed is done, the fragile dream of liberty spirals into violence, unrest, and civil war. As alliances shift and Rome descends into chaos, the play asks: Who gets to hold power? And at what price?
Running just 95 minutes, Caesar is fast-paced and fiercely relevant, inviting audiences to draw parallels between ancient Rome and the political tensions of our world today.
In a season about what it means to be home, Caesar asks: who gets to shape the future of a nation? And what are we willing to risk to defend the place—and people—we love?
Three Things to Know: 2025/26 Season
This is a swift, 90-minute, four-person version of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, with a sleek, brutalist, contemporary design — no togas.
Its intimate, urgent performances pull you right into the action.
It is accessible and engaging for audiences new to Shakespeare — no prior knowledge required.
Tyler has previously worked on productions of Julius Caesar at Trinity Rep in Providence, Rhode Island, and at Asolo Rep, in Sarasota, FL.
Morgan Green is an Obie Award-winning director and one of the co-artistic directors at the Wilma Theater, where last season she directed Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ The Comeuppance. She is known for inventive, visually striking, and emotionally raw interpretations. This is Morgan’s PTC directorial debut.
Morgan and Tyler’s collaboration invites audiences to experience Shakespeare through a 21st-century lens — sharp, dynamic, and deeply human.
Preserving Shakespeare’s language, Caesar centers on the play’s most urgent themes: political power, loyalty, violence, and ambition. It examines how power can corrupt — and how fear, ego, and misinformation can divide a nation. This new adaptation resonates deeply with America’s current political and social climate, sparking conversation about leadership, justice, and civic responsibility.
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Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 7PM (Special Programming beginning one hour before the performance)
Caesar Reimagined — Poetry, Power, and Public Voice ; This evening will explore Shakespeare’s questions of leadership, public responsibility, and masculinity through original poetry readings inspired by the plays themes and a dynamic discussion exploring how information is framed, how public opinion is influenced and what it means to how to participate in modern civic life.
Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 2PM
This performance offers live audio description for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Through a wireless headset, audience members receive a spoken account of the visual elements of the production, including actions, costumes, and scenery.
Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 3PM
This performance includes open captioning, displaying the spoken dialogue, sound effects, and other audio elements in real time on a screen visible from select seating areas.
Sunday, February 15, 2026 (Following the 3:00 p.m. performance)
This post-show discussion will explore the role of media in civic engagement and how communities—both locally and nationally—confront issues of power, violence, and oppression in the pursuit of protecting their civil liberties.
Sunday, February 22, 2026 at (Following the 3:00 p.m. performance)
Join director Morgan Green and playwright Tyler Dobrowsky for an intimate conversation about their creative process in bringing this adaptation of Julius Caesar to life.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 1PM
This performance features live American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation by certified interpreters. Reserved seating is available to ensure optimal sightlines to the interpreters.
February 17, 2026 at 7PM (Special Programming beginning one hour prior to the performance)
Join us for a lively, interactive dive into Caesar! We’ll read key scenes together, explore character motivations through fun improv games, and engage in casual conversation about the play’s themes—power, persuasion, and civic responsibility with a local scholar. No experience needed; all are welcome to read, play, and reflect.
Running Time
90 minutes, no intermission.
Age Recommendation
Ages 12+
Content Advisory
This production of Julius Caesar includes scenes of political assassination and war. It also incorporates brief projections of contemporary news footage depicting contemporary political unrest. Because of the racial dynamics of the cast, some moments of staged violence may feel especially charged for some audience members. Audience discretion is advised.
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CAST
PTC: Detroit; Sweat; Hand to God; Empathitrax. Regional: RIFT, InterAct Theatre Company (Barrymore Award); RENT (Roger), Arden Theatre Company; Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis), Walnut Street Theatre; The Good Person of Setzuan, Wilma Theater; The Comedy of Errors, Lantern Theater Company; The Legend of Georgia McBride, Arden Theatre Company (Barrymore Award); Smoke, Theatre Exile (Barrymore Nomination); The Hairy Ape (Yank, dir. Brenna Geffers), EgoPo Classic Theater. Devised: Nosejob, Lightning Rod Special; O Monsters, New Paradise Laboratories. Film: Scabs (Ayden, dir. Tommy Butler); I Am That (Tamas, dir. Joy Marzec). Training: B.F.A., University of the Arts. Affiliations: Independence Foundation Fellow; HotHouse Lead Artist, New Paradise Laboratories. More: @mattyjscamps.
PTC: Sweat; Everything Is Wonderful. Regional: Clyde’s, Peter Pan, Charlotte’s Web, Arden Theatre Company; The Real Thing, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew, Lantern Theater Company; Cyrano, No Exit, Major Barbara, Waiting for Godot, King Lear, Quintessence Theatre Group; The Motherfucker With the Hat*, Theatre Exile; Dracula, Hedgerow Theatre; Blood Wedding, Philadelphia Artists’ Collective; Pericles, As You Like It, Delaware Shakespeare; Romeo and Juliet, North Carolina Shakespeare; Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Learned Ladies, Tartuffe, Texas Shakespeare; The Way of the World, Shakespeare Theatre Company.
PTC: Debut. Broadway: War Horse, Lincoln Center Theater. Off-Broadway: Hit the Wall, Barrow Street Theatre; The Little Prince, Hang A Tale. Regional: Othello; Gem of the Ocean; Radio Golf; Little Shop of Horrors; black odyssey; Skeleton Crew; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Oklahoma!; A Raisin in the Sun, Trinity Repertory Company; Henry IV, Shakespeare Theatre Company; The Crucible, Cleveland Play House; Caviar on Credit, Guthrie Theater; Blues for Mister Charlie; The Feast. Training: M.F.A., Brown University/Trinity Rep. Affiliations: Co-Creator, Denizen Arts Project. Academia: Assistant Professor of Theater, Swarthmore College. More: judesandy.com.
PTC: Debut. Off-Broadway: The Appointment, Lightning Rod Special. Regional: A Summer Day, Wilma Theater; The Comeuppance, Wilma Theater & Woolly Mammoth Theatre; Bartok’s Monster, Pig Iron Theatre Company; SPEECH, Lightning Rod Special; The Cherry Orchard, Wilma Theater; Love Unpunished (2021), Pig Iron Theatre Company; Indecent, Arden Theatre Company; A People, Orbiter 3; The Gap, Azuka Theatre; Breathe Smoke, Orbiter 3; Age & Beauty: Part 2, Miguel Gutierrez. Film/TV: Scabs (dir. Tommy Butler); Whisper in My Ear (dir. Douglas Williams); A Few Activities (dir. Abigail Horton).
CREATIVE TEAM
PTC: Debut. Off-Broadway: Five Models in Ruins, 1981, LCT3; Staff Meal, Playwrights Horizons; School Pictures, Playwrights Horizons. Regional: Hilma (Opera), Eternal Life Part 1, School Pictures, Fat Ham (digital; Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Wilma Theater. Additional premieres include Five Models in Ruins and The Karamazovs (film). Awards: Obie Award. Leadership: Co-Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s Tony Award–winning Wilma Theater, where she has directed numerous world premieres and new theatrical collaborations.
PTC: Macbeth in Stride (co-director with Taibi Magar). Regional: Macbeth in Stride, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, A.R.T., and BAM; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Little Shop of Horrors; Into the Breeches (World Premiere); Love Alone (World Premiere), Trinity Repertory Company; The Big Meal; Morality Play (World Premiere), The Gamm Theatre. Off-Broadway: Capsule, The Public Theater/Under the Radar. Leadership: Former Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Play Development, Trinity Rep. Teaching: Boston University; Brown University; NYU; Rhode Island College; currently University of Pennsylvania.
PTC: Debut. Regional: The Good Person of Setzuan, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, Wilma Theater; Endlings, Hedgerow Theatre; A Single Shard, People’s Light Theatre; Yours for Me for You, InterAct Theatre. Other Live Performance: Movement and choreography rooted in Korean folk dance, shamanic aesthetics, martial arts, and improvisational practices. Background: Born in South Korea and currently based in Philadelphia, Kim’s work bridges traditional movement forms with contemporary theatrical storytelling. More: uturnkim@gmail.com.
Off-Broadway: Rheology, Playwrights Horizons & Bushwick Starr; In the Green, LCT3. Regional: Oratorio for Living Things, Signature Theatre; Hilma, Wilma Theatre; graveyard shift, Goodman Theatre; Familiar, Steppenwolf Theatre. Other Live Performance: Energy Curfew Music Hour, Audible Theater; Drinking in America, Audible Theater; Don Giovanni, Wolf Trap Opera. Awards: Princess Grace Fellow. Education/Training: M.F.A., Yale University. Affiliations: Co-founder and Principal Designer, Queens Lighting Collective; USA 829. More: kristenrobinsondesign.com | queenslightingcollective.com.
Off-Broadway: The Baker’s Wife, The Flea; Science Park, The Gym at Judson; Dad Rock, The Shed. Regional: Annapurna, Sanctuary City, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. Film: Behind the Mask, American Film Institute. Other Live Performance: Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses, National Sawdust; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, New Studio on Broadway/NYU; Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Stupid Fucking Bird, Romeo and Juliet, NYU3 Festival; The Revolutionists, The Skin of Our Teeth, As You Like It, C5 Festival; Set and Reset / Reset, Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. Affiliations: Associate Set Designer, Metropolitan Opera; Norwegian National Opera and Ballet; Lincoln Center Theater. Training: Purchase College, Conservatory of Theatre Arts.
Broadway (Associate Costume Design): Spring Awakening; The Good Body; Pacific Overtures; Radio Golf; Lestat; Assassins. Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons; The Public Theater; Ma-Yi Theater Company; The Play Company; Soho Rep; Cultural Exchange Center. Regional/Opera: Wilma Theater (PA); Arden Theatre Company (PA); Huntington Theatre Company (MA); La Jolla Playhouse (CA); Children’s Theatre Company (MN); Kennedy Center (DC); Lyric Opera of Chicago; Utah Opera; Pittsburgh Opera; Cincinnati Opera.
PTC: Choir Boy; The Garbologist; Sweat; Having Our Say; Rizzo. Broadway: New York, New York; Sunday in the Park with George; Saint Joan. Opera: The Metropolitan Opera; Paris Opera; La Monnaie; Lausanne Opera; Lyric Opera of Chicago; Canadian Opera Company; Houston Grand Opera. Dance: Arizona Ballet; Miami City Ballet; Houston Ballet; Municipal de Santiago; Atlanta Ballet; Northern Ballet; Ballet Hispánico; River North Chicago Dance. Regional: Guthrie Theater; Wilma Theater; Yale Repertory Theatre. Education/Training: M.F.A., Yale School of Drama.
PTC: Cost of Living. Off-Broadway: Grief Hotel, Clubbed Thumb. Regional: The Comeuppance, Woolly Mammoth/Wilma Theater; Good Person of Setzuan, Wilma Theater; Eternal Life Part 1, Wilma Theater; Fat Ham (World Premiere, 2021), Wilma Theater; fallawayinto, Ninth Planet; we come to collect: a flirtation with capitalism, jenn kidwell. Film: The World Takes, Eight Flow Studio; The Karamazovs, Village Park Productions. Awards: 1/52 Project Grant Recipient (2022). Other: Member of Barrymore Award–winning hip-hop collective ILL DOOTS.
PTC: Debut. Regional: The Mountaintop, Arden Theatre Company; A Summer Day, Archduke, The Half-God of Rainfall, The Comeuppance, The Wilma Theater; Legally Blonde, Winter Wonderland, Media Theatre; The Comedy of Errors, Lantern Theater Company. Training: B.A., Theatre, West Chester University
PTC: Everything Is Wonderful. Off-Broadway: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Assistant Fight Director), Playwrights Horizons. Regional: The Comeuppance, Wilma Theater/Woolly Mammoth Theatre; Great Expectations, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Acting Company; Peter Panto, A Raisin in the Sun, People’s Light; Citrus Andronicus (Barrymore Award, Outstanding Choreography), Philadelphia Artists’ Collective; POTUS, Arden Theatre Company; Cymbeline, Henry IV Part 2, Sense and Sensibility, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; The Play That Goes Wrong, 1812 Productions; Untitled Farce Workshop, Pig Iron. Film: Tooth Fairy, Aspire Studios. Affiliations: Artistic Associate, Philadelphia Artists’ Collective. More: eli-lynn.com | @EverInMotley.