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A 75-minute “Short Shakespeare” production appealed to time-strapped audiences in Chicago; a maximalist 27-person cast led the Stratford Festival’s version; and the Folger Shakespeare ...
Independent Shakespeare Co. (commonly known as Indyshakes or ISC) is a nonprofit theatre company, based in Los Angeles. [1] They most frequently stage theatrical productions of the works of William Shakespeare and other Elizabethan and Jacobean classics, in addition to modern classics and developing new devised, musical, and solo works.
Currently the series is produced under the brand Free Shakespeare in the Park, and all productions are staged at the Delacorte. In past decades, the series was branded The New York Shakespeare Festival and encompassed productions at both the Delacorte and the Public's downtown location in the former Astor Library.
Each summer the company remounts a production from the previous season. Until 2009, these productions were held at the outdoor Amphitheatre in Rock Creek Park. However, in 2009 the company moved the free performances downtown and indoors [115] For a complete list of the productions, see Shakespeare Theatre Company Free For All.
Here’s a guide to outdoor Shakespeare shows (and one non-Shakespeare one) in Connecticut this summer. Flock Theatre: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘Henry IV Part 2’
The plays of Shakespeare account for about four-fifths of the works produced, and, except for 1977 and 1980, each summer's line-up has included at least one work by Shakespeare (or, in the case of 1970, one work adapted from Shakespeare). Non-Shakespeare productions have included plays such as Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and Henrik Ibsen's Peer ...
Delacorte, a fan of Shakespeare, agreed to fund the remaining $150,000 to finish construction of the theater, which was named in honor of him and his wife Valerie in gratitude. [ 3 ] Delays from changes in design, a construction strike, as well as procuring the required funds from Delacorte pushed the opening back to 1962.
The first Free For All production in 1991 was The Merry Wives of Windsor, starring Paul Winfield as Falstaff. More recent shows have included Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Pericles. A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Free For All production for 2005, traveled to the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festival in Colorado that same summer.