Every high school drama department has favorites the students love to perform year after year. And theater companies, too. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a crowd-pleasing confection first unveiled by the Reduced Shakespeare Company in 1987, presents all 37 Shakespeare plays in 97 minutes. The show's unorthodox approaches include Othello in rap stylings and a sped-up version of Hamlet in forward and backward chronology. —Sarah Ewald