Known since Hadestown as the Villain of Broadway, Patrick Page, 62, is also, at an informed guess, America’s most practiced and most versatile Shakespearean. Catch him while you can in the first and bluntest of the playwright’s tragedies, as the eponymous Roman general and kingmaker who puts a scoundrel on the throne only to see his own family undone by rape, mutilation, and murder. In perhaps the angriest as well as the most bonkers mad scene in the canon, Titus stabs a housefly, which, being black, reminds him of a tormentor who is Black with a capital B. But at the Gothic dénouement, it’s human beings who get theirs, with Titus doubling as Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney Todd. —Matthew Gurewitsch