The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Free For All is a much-loved Washington tradition, offering free performances of a Shakespearean classic to the general public. The mission...
Every summer in Southmoreland Park, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival presents a full-scale, free and professional Shakespeare classic under the night stars. Essays &...
The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane is committed to reimagining, rebuilding and engaging The Gulf South region through the works and words of...
Shakespeare at Winedale is an educational program, not an arts organization or professional theatre. All of the elements of the program are intended to...
The Utah Shakespeare Festival presents life-affirming classic and contemporary plays in repertory, with Shakespeare as the cornerstone. These plays are enhanced by interactive festival experiences which entertain,...
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum entertains audiences of all ages by presenting thought-provoking classics, socially relevant plays, and education programs in a beautiful, natural outdoor sanctuary...
Inspired by Shakespeare’s work and the cultural richness of the United States, we reveal our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic...
The mission of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks is to make quality, live theatrical productions of Shakespeare and other classics accessible to communities in...
Door Shakespeare celebrates the expressiveness and timelessness of the English language through performances of classical theatre. Creating distinctive theatrical experiences within an intimate natural...
Rooted in the legacy of Shakespeare as an unparalleled theatrical innovator, Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s unforgettable productions are at the heart of their mission. The epic...
With the plays of William Shakespeare as its foundation, the HARLEM SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL is committed to producing multicultural Shakespeare with a special emphasis on...
The mission of Shakespeare & Company is to deliver a sustainable and vital program of Performance, Training, and Education, integrated for the deepened experience...
The Stratford Festival embraces their heritage of tradition and innovation, while seeking to bring classical and contemporary theatre alive for an increasingly diverse audience. The...
The Nashville Shakespeare Festival is to educate and entertain the Mid-South community through professional Shakespearean experiences. The Festival enriches and unifies our community with...
The American Shakespeare Center recovers the joys and accessibility of Shakespeare’s theatre, language, and humanity by exploring the English Renaissance stage and its practices...
In this interview with the Co-Founder of the American Shakespeare Center and its Artistic...
The American Shakespeare Center has a flourishing education programme which is based at the...
It was pleasure to meet with Glenn and Sara, Residential and Touring Troupe Managers...
Our time with the last of our fourteen partners, The American Shakespeare Center at...
Denice Hicks is the Artistic Director of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival. It was our...
Well, we’re back in Stratford-upon-Avon after our Shakespeare road-trip adventure. But in some ways...
In this land of musician and poet, Through our Country, our Blues, and our...
On our first morning in Nashville we were invited to give a presentation at...
Rickey invited us to her home where she hosted a delightful brunch reception on...
Robert has worked for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival for many years and is passionate...
For the second performance of the Bluegrass As You Like It in Centennial Park...
We knew it was going wonderful, but our time in Nashville surpassed our expectations....
The Shakespeare world is really quite small. I was bowled over and totally delighted...
‘Stratford Festival, Ontario, 2014’ Step inside this world-embracing tent, Where all is seen and...
Our visit to the Stratford Festival could not be complete without interviewing Antoni. He...
We’d just left a truly ebullient and exuberant production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
Pat Quigley was Director of Education for the Stratford Festival for thirty years and...
This Rose trips softly through our deepest night, Whispering her truths from Shakespeare’s day;...
Laura Pogson recalls how her parents had ‘theatre guests’ staying in their home in...
Anita Gaffney is the Executive Director of the Stratford Festival. She was born and...
And so we made our excursion into Canada…. One of the many beautiful and...
Tina Packer is the visionary and founder of Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, Massachusetts. We...
Tony Simotes is the entrepreneurial and inspiring Artistic Director of Shakespeare and Company. In...
We started dancing on our first morning at Shakespeare and Company. Tina Packer, its...
Dennis Krausnick, Head of Actor Training for Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, Massachusetts, has worked...
Well, we’re a little behind with our posting. We’ve actually just arrived in Nashville,...
I dreamt there was a neighbourhood called Harlem, Which starts in Henley Street and...
‘The fame of our great dramatist fills the civilized world. Among the poets...
O, sing me a story of bright city sky, A tune full of hope...
‘The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620. The plays of Shakespeare were not published...
‘Shakespeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors, as he is...
Harlem Shakespeare Festival actor, Mary Hodges, shares her reflections on ‘Shakespeare in Sable’ and...
The Harlem Shakespeare Festival is now celebrating its second anniversary but would not exist...
Harlem Shakespeare Festival actor, Norman Small, talks to us about how he started working...
We saw Julius Hollingsworth portray Paul Robeson in ‘Shakespeare in Sable’ for the Harlem...
The great Voza Rivers, award-winning music and theatre producer and director of the New...
‘That Shakespeare was not of an age but for all time has never been...
We’ve been painfully aware throughout this trip of all the great work we haven’t...
We were honoured to attend a day of Barbara’s rehearsals for her forthcoming production...
As well as acting, Kevin Gudahl’s passion is working closely on the text at...
Marilyn Halperin has worked for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre for many years – ever...
It was our pleasure to interview Lanise Antoine Shelley who played Adriana in Chicago’s...
Michelle Boon took up her civic role in 2011 which and oversees the initiative...
From the dreamy, pastoral world of Bailey’s Harbour, we headed towards Chicago where we...
Ring all the words of Shakespeare through the night, Beside the lake, beneath this...
The Door Shakespeare Festival is in a beautiful location and we were all of...
While we were visiting the Door Shakespeare Festival, Michael Perez happened to mention Backroom...
It was getting close to curtain up at the Door Shakespeare Festival; the fight...
It’s been an action packed few days for Shakespeare on the Road. From Montana...
If you peer between that searching sun and sleeping-smiling moon – That is where...
Tom Watson is the designer of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and apparently there...
It was our pleasure to interview Susan Dickerson, Managing Director of Montana Shakespeare in...
Watching Romeo and Juliet in Philipsburg the other night, as performed by the troupe...
The Hollywood star, Bill Pullman, whose films include Independence Day and Sleepless in Seattle...
It was my pleasure to meet Roy Grekin just after the performance of the...
Kevin Asselin has been associated with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks for many years,...
Nightingale v Lark debate Act V catastrophe
Before every performance, the ten actors of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks spend between...
O, Ashland lion, sing tonight, From your mane spills star-struck light; Your moonbeams of...
Joanna Harmon on playing Rosalind: Casey Hoekstra on Romeo:
It was always going to be impressive. ‘Are you going to Ashland?’ was one...
Rick is about to start as the Executive Director of Shakespeare and Company in...
We were pleased to hear from Kimberley, an Associate Producer and Stage-Manager, who has...
It’s 1971 and I’m on my first visit to Ashland, Oregon. I’ve been teaching...
We’ve just met the inspiring Cynthia Rider, Executive Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival,...
Act 1: Washington D.C., 1951 At the age of 49, Will Geer – botanist,...
We’ve just arrived in Ashland, Orgeon, so here’s a little history of the place...
I sing this song to all the trees, I call them by their Latin...
Ellen Geer is the presiding genius of Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum. We have all...
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum was born out of the darkest days and suffering of...
The climax of Theatricum Unmasked was a group rendition of Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land...
Kids at the Theatricum Botanicum are asked to name some Shakespeare plays (with extraordinary...
Elizabeth Tobias and Susan Angelo – actors and educational practitioners at Will Geer’s Theatricum...
John F Andrews of the Shakespeare Guild reflects on an anniversary production of The...
The grandson of Will Geer, Ian Flanders, recalls the first Shakespeare family summer...
Alan Blumenfeld and Earnestine Phillips, long-established actors at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, talk about...
Ellen Geer, playing Lear, reflects on the 99% and the 1%… Melora Marshall on...
When Mike Bahr (Education Director) and Josh Stavros (Associate Director) spoke to us about...
Erika Haaland (Isabella in Measure for Measure) Sam Ashdown (Prince Harry in Henry...
Andrew Dickson is a Guardian journalist currently working on a new book on global...
A rainbow simmers out of Cedar Breaks, From burning rock of pre-historic age; Another...
The Utah Shakespeare Festival has two Artistic Directors, both of whom started their careers...
And here Aaron speaks about one of his favourite lines in Twelfth Night, or...
We were treated to a wonderful reception on Friday evening at which we spoke...
Fred C. Adams founded the Utah Shakespeare Festival in 1961 and was its executive...
R. Scott Phillips has worked for the Utah Shakespeare Festival for 36 years. He...
James Loehlin is the Director of Shakespeare at Winedale. He speaks to us here...
As we passed through the desert of casinos from Las Vegas airport on Wednesday...
We were all charmed and disarmed when, at the beginning of the second half...
It’s 3am in a hotel in Cedar City, Utah, and after a full day...
A summer saying “yes”, and feeling free Among the meadows where we learned to...
We’ve just arrived back in Austin after two days in Winedale (about an hour’s...
Elizabeth Fisher is the Program Co-ordinator of Shakespeare at Winedale. She was a student...
We have quickly learned that Shakespeare at Winedale is no less than a way...
Shakespeare in Texas has a long history, as James Loehlin, Shakespeare at Winedale...
Actor Chris Jordan offers a great insight into the town of Round Top and...
‘The discovery of America had much to do with the revival of English learning...
Shakespeare at Winedale: the stage from the gallery It was a pleasure hearing the...
Veteran Shakespeare at Winedale fan Tom Douglas points to the spot on which he...
A guest card from an early 20th c. Comus ball, New Orleans, of Bottom....
Performing Shakespeare in a barn in rural Texas has some unique challenges…
Hear a short and fascinating introduction to the barn in rural Winedale, Texas,...
Straight after his performance as Robin Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a...
Clare Moncrief, the Managing Director of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane introduces...
This birthplace of jazz is creating some heat, A syncopated soul with Shakespearian beat...
The undeniable spirit of New Orleans has infused our four days here with a...
Chaney Tullos, Director of Operations, the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane A theatre...
Burton Tedesco, Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was one of the great American figures of the twentieth century....
Last evening we made a presentation in the Lupin Theatre at Tulane University to...
“Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan...
Danny Bowen, Oberon and Theseus, New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane.
Ruby Lou Smith, Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Last evening we went to see our first show as part of the Shakespeare...
Arrived in New Orleans last night after 600 mile drive from an unexpected stop...
Whilst sitting in a plastic lawn chair in Southmoreland Park, five rows from the...
It was our pleasure to interview Tracy Terstriep (Movement / Choreography) the other day...
A fairy-tale unfolds Where trees hold a cathedral And a rose window makes the...
We’re listening to an episode of This American Life from 9 August 2002: “Over...
‘Romeo loved Juliet Juliet she felt the same When he put his arms around...
Cinnamon Schultz, playing Hermione in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ for the Heart of America Shakespeare...
Sidonie Garrett is the inspirational, influential, and much loved Artistic Director of the Heart...
Mayor Sylvester James talks to Paul Edmondson and Paul Prescott about what the Heart...
Marilyn Strauss, Founder of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival speaks about the...
“I haven’t any idea that Shakespeare will have to vacate his pedestal this side...
As we leave the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival I look across Kansas City...
Camille and Olivia, actors in the young people’s version of The Winter’s Tale at...
As we descended into Newark yesterday afternoon – blithely unaware that the forerunning tempests...