Metaverse Shakespeare Company play, "One’s a Pawn of Time" by Mike Dedrian. The company then returned to "Twelfth Night" and staged the first act of the play starting in November, 2008. No full-length Shakespearean play has been produced due to funding issues. In December 2008 the company developed Shakespeare on Ice as part of the Second Life: On Winter Solstice 2008. Shakespeare on Ice was a 24-hour ongoing festival which revived characters and plots from previous SL Shakespeare Company productions, with the aim to entertain and educate. In February 2009 the company started work on "Twelfth Night", Act 1: The Open Ended Run,
American Shakespeare Center company, then called the Blackfriars Stage Company. The performances incorporated acoustic music, a piano, and a three-sided thrust stage, all of which were selected to maximize audience engagement. The American Shakespeare Center celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2013. In April 2017, the American Shakespeare Center launched an international playwrighting competition to develop a canon of new plays that are inspired by and in conversation with the work of William Shakespeare. Each new play will be performed in rotating repertory with the Shakespeare play it corresponds with. The first round of submissions are for "The Merry Wives of Windsor"; "Henry IV,