All’s well that ends well

Children’s Shakespeare Theatre will explore the rich textures of Shakespeare’s problem comedy All’s Well That Ends Well through its young cast’s experiences growing up in 2025 in this mixed ages, modern dress production of the play directed by CST Managing Director Grey Johnson.

The King of France (Alexander Josuweit) is dying, addicted to his cell phone and refuses his doctor’s medicines. When the daughter of a famed but deceased physician, Helena (Myla Zimbler), tries to cure him, he also refuses. Helena believes in the medicines that her father has left her so completely that she tells the King, if he is not cured, he can take her life.

The King is cured and as thanks gives Helena anything she wants. She asks for the hand of one of his Lords in marriage, Bertram (Levon Goldberg) whom she is in love with. The King marries them instantly, but Bertram has other plans and flees that very day with his ne’er-do-well friend Parolles (Richard Reimann Valdes) to fight in a European war far away. As Levon commented, “Men would rather go to war than go to therapy, am I right?”

Through missed texts, fashion wars, ambushes, military parades, a religious pilgrimage, cell phone mix-ups, and a war zone covered in post-modern graffiti, Bertram learns who his friends really are and all’s well that ends well, but you must see it to believe it.

Performances are located at the Palisades Presbyterian Church.

Fridays & Saturdays, November 14 & 15, 21 & 22 at 7pm