Equus (play) by critics and audiences alike. Broadway World called the production 'dark, daunting and sensual' and commending its 'stellar cast'. Houston Press said it was 'astonishingly good... a must see' while Culturemap listed the show as one of the hottest shows of the year. Equus (play) Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. Shaffer was inspired to write "Equus" when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town near
Classic Stage Company O'Hare, and Peter Sarsgaard, and "The Seagull" with Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming; David Ives' "The Heir Apparent", "Venus in Fur" with Nina Arianda (Broadway transfer 2011/2012, Tony Award nom., Best Play), "The School for Lies" with Hamish Linklater, and "New Jerusalem" with Richard Easton; "Unnatural Acts", conceived by Tony Speciale; Anne Carson's "An Oresteia"; and Shakespeare's "Hamlet" with Peter Sarsgaard, "The Tempest" with Mandy Patinkin, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Bebe Neuwirth, and "Richard III", "Richard II", and "Hamlet" with Michael Cumpsty. Prominent artists who have worked at Classic Stage Company include F. Murray Abraham, Wes Bentley, Zoe Caldwell,