Illyria

This 2004 cast recording of the musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, co-created by Peter Mills ’95 and Cara Reichel ’96, is available from the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey www.shakespearenj.org/gifts/gifts.html. Illyria made its regional theater premiere at the Shakespeare Theatre company in 2004. Reichel and Mills are founders of New York’s Prospect Theater Company. Mills wrote the music and lyrics and Reichel directed the 2008 Prospect Theater production of Illyria. A New York Times critic wrote, “Peter Mills and Cara Reichel have taken Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece, kept its Elizabethan spirit, voice and wit, yet created a new, accessible work that brashly and, at times, poignantly speaks to contemporary musical theater.”