Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse

This guide to the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse in Atlanta opens in the middle of the night on August thirteenth, twenty twenty-three, when someone poured lighter fluid through the mailbox slot of this half-timbered Peachtree Street theater and lit a fire. It follows what happened once the smoke alarm tripped the sprinklers, and the cost in costumes ruined that had been stitched over decades of productions. The company traces its roots to a Shakespeare troupe that started in the back room of a bar across town in nineteen eighty-four, long before this Globe-inspired stage went up in nineteen ninety.