FL Rep Comedy of Tenors.jpg
 
 

Featured Content

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Explore the plays of Ken Ludwig

Click each image to access the plays.

 
 

“America’s most celebrated comic playwright.”

Linda Loomis, syracuse.com

 

Production Highlights

 
 
 

“Ludwig is a giant of the American theater.”

Patric Maley, newjersey.com

 
 
 
 

Shakespeare Made Fun

A foolproof, enormously fun approach to introducing your children and yourself to the world of William Shakespeare.

LEARN MORE
 
 
 

Videos

Tony Award-winning set designer Eugene Lee discusses his set model for the world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s Treasure Island at the Alley Theatre.

 

“Ken Ludwig is one of the premier playwrights in the world today.”

Broadway World

 
 
Play Club Graphic.jpg

The joy of reading plays begins now!

Plays are like short stories--you can read them in an hour or two before bedtime and engage in a whole work of literature in a single gulp. In this series, we’ll explore not only my own plays, but many of the masterpieces that make up the great comic tradition in English Literature.

Our next Comedy Play Club, Murder on the Orient Express will take place this fall. Details to be announced soon!

New play club recordings now available!

 
 

Have a question for Ken?

 
 
 
JIM_9564_Old+Globe_Jim+Cox_overlay.png
 

Follow @playwrightkenludwig on Instagram

View fullsize What’s on the top of my book stack for Memorial Day Weekend? Daniel Silva’s novel The Cellist. Silva is my favorite thriller writer ever. Reviewers talk about books being “unputdownable” but his really are. Once he gets hi
View fullsize BASKERVILLE is playing @chemainustheatre through June 1. The Chemainus Theatre Festival is in a seaside community on Vancouver Island in Canada and it looks so picturesque. I’m sending my very best to the cast and crew for the run!! This pho
View fullsize @draytonentertainment is producing CRAZY FOR YOU, now through May 18, at The Hamilton Family Theatre Cambridge in Ontario, Canada. I’m excited that this musical is playing at the Hamilton - it’s a particularly stunning theatre, in histori
View fullsize Where Have I Been?! I am just back from a marvelous trip to the U.K. Most of my time was spent in one of my favorite places @shakespearebtrust We visited and saw all the wonderful sites that mean so much to me and I was there for the whole week of
View fullsize I always have a stack of books that I’m reading. And this is what’s on the top right now - Franklin and Winston, an “Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship” by Jon Meacham. This book, by Meacham, the great historian, tells
View fullsize Now through May 18, LEND ME A SOPRANO is playing @the_wimberley_players — I’m sending my best wishes for a great run to the cast and crew of this production in Central Texas!
View fullsize I had a great conversation with Mark Lawson @guardian about adapting Agatha Christie’s novels for the stage. We also talked about Shakespeare, David Garrick, Andrew Lloyd Webber and so much more! You can read about it in The Guardian - theguar
View fullsize I love to play all kinds of games and I also like to make quizzes and puzzles to share with friends. How well do you know the greatest detective of them all? Test your Sherlock Holmes knowledge with me! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the She