Bryan Doerries uses ancient texts to confront today’s challenges, showing how timeless art can heal, provoke, and connect us across time.

But what if those classics could be repurposed to shed light on the specific challenges facing us today? Would it be possible to understand the impact of racial discrimination, political corruption, war or flawed relationships in the same raw and real ways that the original audiences of Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Greeks understood them?

The results would be amazing, healing, entertaining, and educational. The long lens of antiquity could strip away what we think is so special about our time, focusing instead on what makes us human. 

That’s exactly what Bryan Doerries and the Theater of War Productions have been doing for almost two decades, around the United States and around the world. And the results are, in fact, transformational.