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Theater at Monmouth
Post date: September 5, 2012 - 21:08

Theater at Monmouth is a year-round repertory company of professional theatre artists from across Maine and the United States. Founded in 1970, the Theater was named The Shakespearean Theater of Maine by the Maine State Legislature in 1975. Performances are held in Cumston Hall, listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings since 1976.

The mission of Theater at Monmouth is to present innovative approaches to Shakespeare and other classic plays through professional productions that enrich the lives of people throughout the state of Maine.

In its 42 seasons, TAM has presented more than 295 productions in its three-month Summer Repertory Season, including 21 world premieres, entertaining audiences from 33 states and through Education Tours in the fall and spring annually reaching more than 10,000 students in each of Maine’s 16 counties.

The 2012 season includes a spring tour of The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship and Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Summer productions include Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona and King Henry IV, Part 1; William's The Glass Menagerie, Moliere's Tartuffe, and, for families, The Little Prince. In the fall, the Theater will produce Of Thee I Sing by George & Ira Gershwin, Moses Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind in Cumston Hall as well as a 90-minute adaptation of Hamlet at schools and community centers across Maine.  

Theater at Monmouth is a constituent member of Theater Communications Group, the Shakespeare Theater Association, the Winthrop Chamber of Commerce, and the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce.

From its inception, Theater at Monmouth has maintained strong community partnerships, education programs, and humanities initiatives. Through collaborations with such institutions as the University of Maine at Augusta, the Maine Humanities Council, Arts Midwest, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maine Arts Commission, The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, Cumston Hall Public Library, and schools across the state, the Theater provides educational, scholarly, and artistic experiences for Maine residents of all ages.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival
Post date: September 5, 2012 - 20:56

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Mission Statement

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established for the cultural benefit and enjoyment of all residents of and visitors to our region. We strive to plan, produce and advocate the finest cultural events at Lake Tahoe while educating future generations on the importance of including theater, music and art in their everyday lives.

The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival at Sand Harbor remains a fun, casual evening on the beach, but under the stewardship of the Board of Directors and Festival management, it has also become one of the outstanding outdoor cultural events in the United States.  In addition to serving over 22,000 patrons to Shakespeare each summer, our Monday Night Showcase, featuring the best of the region's arts and culture organizations, reaches an additional 3,500 customers.  Our three educational outreach programs reach and over 7,000 young people each year.  In addition to our Midsummer Theatre Camps, we offer two free programs, the D. G. Menchetti Young Shakespeare Program, an interactive adaptation for children of a Shakespeare play performed at Sand Harbor and around the region during the summer, and InterACT, an in-school residency in Shakespeare and the classics, provided to schools throughout our region during the academic year.

 

Annapolis Shakespeare Company
Post date: September 5, 2012 - 20:48

The Annapolis Shakespeare Company seeks to engage the community with professional, classical theatre with an emphasis on Shakespeareʼs works and provide young people ages 9-22 with performing arts education and performance opportunities!

The Annapolis Shakespeare Company, a non-profit 501(c)3 theatre company is a growing company with a vision to produce professional-quality classic theatre, creating a new and exciting relationship between classical theatre and our community.  We have  been delighting local audiences since 2009 with professional quality theatrical productions of Shakespeare and other classics including The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream, Hamlet, Our Town, Twelfth Night, Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet and now Shakespeareʼs most farcical romp, The Comedy of Errors.

The Annapolis Shakespeare Company seeks to engage the community with professional, classical theatre with an emphasis on Shakespeareʼs works and provide young people ages 9-22 with performing arts education and performance opportunities!In our most recent production of Twelfth Night at the Bowie Playhouse, 40% of our audience was made up of students in grades K-12.

The Annapolis Shakespeare is the newest of four resident companies at the Bowie Playhouse in White Marsh Park where we perform three full-length productions each season.The company also provides classical theatre education to students ages 9 through adults through educational workshops, performing opportunities and weekly classes at Maryland Hall in Annapolis. The Annapolis Shakespeare Company is a grant recipient from the City of Bowie and the Maryland State Arts Council, and is a member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, an international association of Shakespeare-producing theatres.

Griffin Horn (Antipholus of Syracuse) surrounded by members of the ensemble in Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s production of The Comedy of Errors directed by Sally Boyett-D’Angelo.  Photo by Corey Sentz.

 

Humber River Shakespeare Co.
Post date: June 3, 2012 - 08:47

Founded in 2008, Humber River Shakespeare produced an inaugural season of touring Shakespeare to communities along the historic Humber River, with an outdoor production of Twelfth Night. It soon became apparent that the demand for theatre in many of these artistically underserved areas was very high - audiences and communities were not only asking whether we would be touring next summer, but also if we would return in the winter. The company began to create and participate in events throughout the year, including a sold-out performance event, The Sonnet Show, which featured five new Canadian plays inside a Victorian era hotel, all based on a Shakespearean Sonnet.  In the winter, we toured a staged reading of our original edit of Dickens' A Christmas Carol to standing room only crowds.

Humber River Shakespeare is a professional outdoor theatre company that seeks to enrich the artistic profile of communities along the historic Humber River. 

We strive to produce theatrically engaging work with a focus on actors, not elaborate sets, to tell Shakespeare’s timeless stories.  Our emphasis is on making the text understandable and accessible to both the Shakespearean novice and the experienced theatre patron.  Humber River Shakespeare believes that an organic and symbiotic relationship between the community and its players leads toward the ultimate success of both parties.

Humber River Shakespeare prioritizes accessibility and theatre without barriers.  All of our touring park productions are pay-what-you-can, so that anyone can afford to see the show.
We perform as they did in Shakespeare’s day – in the open air.
A respect for the beauty of the immediate environment is expressed through minimal and unobtrusive set designs and, wherever possible, without the use of electricity.
Our vision includes opportunities for young, emerging, and local artists to  develop and showcase their skills in a professional forum.

We believe that diverse casting can welcome diverse audiences and make classical theatre relevant to growing populations.

We believe that by engaging youth artistically through educational workshops, we foster and encourage future artists, audience members, and active citizens.

This season 2012, we present Macbeth.

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Elm Shakespeare Company
Post date: June 3, 2012 - 08:36

Founded in 1995, and located in New Haven, CT, The Elm Shakespeare Company is a professional, theatre company committed to establishing a discourse with Connecticut’s communities and schools through the medium of Shakespeare’s plays. In addition to free performances in Edgerton Park each August and performances at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville each spring, the company presents innovative educational programming throughout the year. Whether it is our long term residencies, after school programs or summer camp, the goal remains the same; to teach students, through practical application, the power of Shakespeare’s language and the magic of the theatre.

In the summer of 1996, ESC presented its first professional production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. With a cast composed of professional, pre-professional, and student performers, The Tempest was presented free of charge in New Haven's Edgerton Park to an audience of 3,500. Since 1996, Elm Shakespeare Company's audience has grown to over 30,000 attending performances throughout the entire month of August.

Elm Shakespeare Company