ARTS Picks: The Taming of the Shrew at Four County Players

Enjoy the verbal sparring and spirited courtship of Katharina and Petruchio as Four County Players closes its 40th anniversary season with Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Comedy ensues when a determined suitor (Martyn Kyle) pursues a strong-willed and resistant maiden (a fiery Mendy St. Ours) and the couple engages in a battle of wills, learning to tolerate each other and, eventually, to love.

Through 5/19  $12-16, 8pm (2:30pm on Sundays). All Fridays are half-price. Four County Players Main Stage, 5256 Governor Barbour St., Barboursville. (540) 832-5355.

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