Hardcover Theater's mission is to create entertaining, thought-provoking, and stylistically original adaptations of literature for the stage. As part of this mission, we seek to:
- Celebrate the power and beauty of language.
- Promote literacy, reading, and historical understanding.
- Expand the vocabulary of the theater by experimenting with staging devices, especially "direct address," in which actors speak directly to the audience.
"When you think of a theater company devoting its energy to literary adaptations, the dusty whiff of reverent takes on canonical classics springs to mind. Which is why Hardcover Theater is so consistently fun: In recent years, they've taken on sci-fi, a creepy old children's story, and a yar-matey seafaring tale. And they've done it with respect and insight into their sources, part of why the shows are so consistently good." -Quinton Skinner, City Pages