Shakespeare Festival
William Shakespeare would be very pleased, if he could see
how many Shakespeare Festivals happen every year around the
globe.
The number is growing and every year a new Shakespeare
Festival pops up here, there, everywhere!
Shakespeare Festival - USA
This is a list of the major Shakespeare Fetivals in the
U.S.A. It's certainly not complete. but it gives a good
overview over the multitude of festivals for the Bard that
happen every year!
- Actors' Theatre of
Columbus - With
Shakespeare as their focus, the ATC provides outdoor
theatre performances in the Shiller Park.
- Alabama Shakespeare
Festival - The
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, located in Montgomery is
the sixth largest Shakespeare festival in the world and
attracts more than 300,000 annual visitors.
- Arizona Classical
Theatre - Home to the
Arizona Shakespeare Festival & The World's Greatest
Shakespeare Company
- Austin Shakespeare
Festival - Austin
Shakespeare is 2009 in its 24th year of presenting free
Shakespeare performances in Zilker Park. On the program
this year: Romeo y Julieta.
- Baltimore Shakespeare
Festival - present
Shakespeare productions outdoors each summer in the
Meadow at the Evergreen Museum and Library. The
Baltimore Shakespeare Festival also produces three plays
each season at its indoor home at St.
Mary's.
- California Shakespeare
Festival - Orinda, CA - now called the California Sahkespeare
Theatre, but still performing a great Shakespeare
Festival every year.
- Cincinnati Shakespeare
Festival - Cincinnati
Shakespeare Company is a professional theater company in
the heart of downtown Cincinnati's Backstage
district.
- Cleveland Shakespeare
Festival - The CSF
performs Shakespeare's plays on outdoor stages across
Northeast Ohio.
- Colorado Shakespeare
Festival - Boulder, CO - Celebrating the works of William
Shakespeare, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a
complete experience for a summer evening in the Mary
Rippon Outdoor Theatre.
- Delaware Shakespeare
Festival - performs
on the grounds of Rockwood Mansion Park.
- Fairbanks Shakespeare
Theatre - Starting
with a performance alongside the Chena River in downtown
Fairbanks, Alaska in 1992, the Fairbanks Shakespeare
Theatre has grown into a year-round producing and
international-touring theatre company.
- First Folio
Shakespeare Festival - First Folio Theatre is in its 13th
season of bringing high-quality performances of
Shakespeare and other classics to the Chicagoland
suburbs.
- Florida Shakespeare
Theatre - Founded in
1979, the Florida Shakespeare Theatre (FST) has grown to
become a major cultural institution of South Florida at
the historic Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables.
- Georgia Shakespeare
Festival - Georgia
Shakespeare performs for one week each spring in
Piedmont Park. All other productions are held in the
Conant Performing Arts Center, on the campus of
Oglethorpe University.
- Hampshire Shakespeare
Company - Western
Massachussetts -
Performances take place in the meadow behind The
Hartsbrook School, overlooking the pristine Holyoke
range.
- Hamptons Shakespeare
Festival - Long Island, N.Y. - The Hamptons Shakespeare Festival (HSF)
has produced ten seasons of critically acclaimed free
outdoor theater on eastern Long
Island.
- Heart of America
Shakespeare Festival
- since 1990 in Southmoreland Park, Kansas City,
Missouri
- Hudson Valley
Shakespeare Festival
- The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival began in 1987
and is now held at Boscobel, a Hudson River estate in
Garrison.
- Idaho Shakespeare
Festival - at Idaho
Shakespeare Festival Amphitheater & Reserve, Idaho
City
- Illinois Shakespeare
Festival - In 1978,
the Festival was founded in in Bloomington-Normal,
IL
- Kentucky Shakespeare
Festival - 2009, the
49th Summer Festival of Free Shakespeare in Central Park
will present two of William Shakespeare’s masterworks,
Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet.
- Lake Tahoe Shakespeare
Festival - The Lake
Tahoe Shakespeare Festival began modestly in 1972. The
Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival at Sand Harbor is a
fun, casual evening on the beach and one of the
outstanding outdoor cultural events in the United
States.
- Los Angeles Women's
Shakespeare Company
- Since 1993, LAWSC has produced 15 extremely
successful, award-winning theatrical Shakespeare
productions.
- Marin Shakespeare
Company - Marin County, CA - In 2001 Marin Shakespeare Company
celebrated the 40th anniversary of the founding of
California's first outdoor Shakespeare
festival.
- Montana Shakespeare in
the Parks - Montana
Shakespeare in the Parks has been playing summers since
1973.
- The Mountain
Shakespeare Festival
- The Mountain Shakespeare Festival is a theater company
at the top of the Grapevine performing in Pine Mountain
Club and Frazier Park, California.
- Murphys Creek
Theatre - Founded in
1994, Murphys Creek Theatre is a small, professionally
oriented theatre company located in the charming and
historic goldrush-era town of Murphys, in Calaveras
County, California.
- New Jersey Shakespeare
Festival - The
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (formerly called "New
Jersey Shakespeare Festival") is one of the leading
Shakespeare theatres in the U.S.A.
- Oregon Shakespeare
Festival - Ashland, OR - Founded in 1935, the Tony Award-winning
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is among
the oldest and largest professional non-profit theatres
in the U.S.A.
- Orlando-UCF
Shakespeare Festival
- started in 1989, it's since 2007 the Orlando Shakespeare Theater
- Pennsylvania
Shakespeare Festival
- The Pennsylvania Shakespeare
Festival at DeSales University is a not-for-profit
professional theatre company and the Official
Shakespeare Festival of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
- Philadelphia
Shakespeare Festival
- The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre was founded as
The Red Heel Theatre in 1989, initially focusing on
classic works of English theatre. In 1996 the
company's efforts focused on the works of
Shakespeare, renaming it The Philadelphia Shakespeare
Festival.
- Richmond Shakespeare
Festival - Each
summer, the company produces the Richmond Shakespeare
Festival at 500 year-old Agecroft Hall, a tudor estate
home that stood in England during Shakespeare's
lifetime. It was moved across the Atlantic to Richmond,
Virginia in the 1920's.
- San Francisco
Shakespeare Festival
- The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival began in 1983,
with Free Shakespeare in the Park's debut production of
The Tempest in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco,
California.
- Shady Shakespeare
Theatre Company -
Shady Shakespeare was founded in 1999 and holds
performances at Sanborn-Skyline County Park outside of
Saratoga, CA
- Shakespeare by the Sea
- Redondo Beach, CA
- Shakespeare by the Sea (SBTS) was launched in 1998. It
offers a free Summer Repertory presented in San Pedro
and then throughout the South Bay, LA and Orange
County.
- Shakespeare Festival -
Tulane - This New
Orleans Shakespeare festival was founded in
1993.
- Shakespeare Festival
of Dallas -
Shakespeare Dallas was founded in 1971. Performances are
in both the Addison (Addison Circle Park) and Dallas
(Samuell-Grand Amphitheatre) areas.
- Shakespeare Festival -
LA - In 1986,
Shakespeare Festival/LA presented the first Summer
Festival in Pershing Square.
- Shakespeare on the
Sound - Connecticut
- Shakespeare on the Sound produces an annual free
outdoor Shakespeare festival in Connecticut, with
performances in public parks in Rowayton and
Greenwich.
- Shakespeare Santa Cruz
- CA - Shakespeare
Santa Cruz was founded in 1981 and is a professional
repertory company in residence at the University of
California, Santa Cruz.
- Shakespeare Theatre
Wahington D.C. -
Since its founding in 1985, the Shakespeare Theatre
Company has endeavored to be the nation’s leading force
in the presentation and preservation of classic
theatre.
- Texas Shakespeare
Festival - In June
1986, the Texas Shakespeare Festival opened. All
performances are held in the Van Cliburn Auditorium of
the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center on the campus of
Kilgore College
- Utah Shakespearean
Festival - The Utah
Shakespearean Festival was founded in 1961 in Cedar
City. The Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theatre, located
on the campus of Southern Utah University is one of the
most authentic Elizabethan theatres in the
world,
- Virginia Shakespeare
Festival - In 2009
the Virginia Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 31st
annual season.
- Young Shakespeare Players, Madison,
WI - The Young
Shakespeare Players (YSP) is a children's theater
program in which the children provide the
theater.
Shakespeare Festival Canada
Canada loves Shakespeare too, there are a number of
important Shakepeare Festivals in Canada too:
Shakespeare Festival
Great Britain / UK
For sure there are plenty of Shakespeare events in Great
Britain, after all this is the home country of William
Shakespeare and the Brits don't want to leave it all to the
overseas theaters and organizers...
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