Amy Kaissar
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  • Home
  • Current Shows
    • A Leg Up
  • Selected Past Shows
    • Fiddler on the Roof
    • Midsummer: A Banquet
    • Shake and Bake: Love's Labour's Lost
    • Fun Home
    • Shuffle Along
    • The Heidi Chronicles
    • A Modest Suggestion
    • Telephone
    • Gypsy
    • The Little Prince
    • A Doll House
  • Bio
  • Contact

Producer
Off-Broadway, 2018-2019
​Drama Desk Nominated

Shake and Bake: Love's Labour's Lost was a production of Shakespeare's comedy, performed in the round for just 50 people a night, and as part of the show the actors prepared and served an 8 course tasting menu. The audience sips the wine. We serve the Shakespeare.

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Great Shakespeare

Get up close and personal with Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost performed in an intimate setting.
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Great Food

Enjoy an eight course tasting menu  with wine pairings, created in front of you through the performance.   
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A Great Time

Share a toast with the actors in an unforgettable evening of laughter, food . . . and love.

Reviews

New York Times
“As effortlessly edible as a Cheeto-dusted mac and cheese…what a delight to see Shakespeare’s ladies call the shots, not to mention doing shots with Shakespeare’s ladies.”

The Daily Beast
"A pure and unadulterated delight…a near perfectly turned Love’s Labour’s Lost…rarely have I seen an audience more engaged or enthralled with Shakespeare…a performance that will be remembered long after the liquor and the wine and the vanilla panna cotta with brown butter crumble have worn off."

The New Yorker
“A waggishly loose adaptation…There’s a deliberate irony in [this] epicurean take on a play that begins with a young monarch’s vow to practice abstemious living…Between the smoked-salmon canapés and the arrival of the Cheeto-dusted mac and cheese, King Ferdinand and his men forswear sumptuous food, luxuriant sleep, and the company of women. Then the Princess of France…show[s] up, and the men’s resolve is predictably and risibly undone. 

NBC
“If you’re looking for an Off-Broadway production that’s as filling as it is fun, then Shake and Bake is the show for you.”

TheaterMania
"Joyous, inventive, and thoroughly irreverent…the cast welcomes us into what feels like an intimate dinner party…these plays were written to be performed for the groundlings as they swilled ale and chowed down on turkey legs. Cheeto Dusted Mac n' Cheese (the junk-food-as-haute-cuisine fourth course) is certainly the Meatpacking District equivalent of that."

Gothamist
"It turns out that you've never fully experienced Shakespeare until you've seen Love's Labour's Lost in the round with an aggressively flamboyant Don Adriano de Armado…This is the Shake & Bake company's first foray, and they've turned the typically corny dinner theater into a riotous delight. The food is great too, from Hot Cheeto dusted mac & cheese to vanilla panna cotta, with plenty of booze to wash it all down."
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