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A partnership with the MOJA Arts Festival and Charleston County Public Library, Charleston's NEA Big Read will use "Their Eyes Were Watching God" as a cultural touchstone and literary point of departure to consider and explore the African-American experience in the South through a variety of overlapping perspectives and artistic interpretations.

The Becket and Washington, Massachusetts communities will read The Bear by Andrew Krivak and engage in enriching and creative activities and conversations around environmental awareness - specifically the appreciation, respect, and conservation of our beautiful and rural surroundings.

Salina Reads 2025 is a community reading series focusing on the theme "Where We Live: Stories of the History and People of Our Community" as inspired by the novel, True Grit by Charles Portis. The goal of the series is to strengthen community connections by widening perspectives and deepening understanding about differing points of view through literature, shared experience and discussion.

TSF’s HOPE Academy Partnership brings a fall and spring 10-week Devised Theatre programs to residents at the Smith County Juvenile Detention Center with Shakespeare's text as the starting point. Residents participate in two sessions each week, led by a full-time TSF staff member and company members from the TSF Roadshow’s Educational Touring program.

Portland Center Stage (Portland, OR) will produce Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," helmed by company Artistic Director Marissa Wolf, with 31 performances scheduled from November 23 to December 24, 2024 on The Armory's U.S. Bank Main Stage. Educational activities surrounding the production will include two-to-three student matinees, free backstage tours, free workshops, and post-performance Q&As.

Will Power marks the next stage of Riverside Theatre’s two decades of Shakespeare education and outreach in Iowa. Through partnerships with area community centers, schools, and libraries, Riverside will tour a trunk-show production of the preceding summer’s Free Shakespeare in Lower City Park, adapted to ninety minutes and coinciding with artist-led workshops for middle and high-school students.

Shakespeare & Company’s Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare annually brings abridged productions of Shakespeare to thousands of students and teachers in middle and high schools, colleges, and performing arts centers across the Northeast. Through faithfully prepared performances, together with talkbacks and participatory workshops, the Tour helps fill a critical need for arts education programs.

The Neo-Political Cowgirls will create a new work consisting of a series of female characters from Shakespeare's canon, thread them into a collection exploring the archetypal maidens/mothers/crones with Shakespearean text, dance, and world music. Women's representation, voices and ambition in Shakespeare's plays will be shared in local schools and with general audiences in dynamic form.

In April 2025, as part of the 2024-2025 Main Stage Season, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company will present six educational matinee performances of Shakespeare’s "The Tempest” for 1,400 seventh – twelfth grade students from across the Greater Cincinnati region. Alongside performances, students will receive pre- and post-show discussions, backstage tours, workshops, and in-school residencies.

More than 2,800 young patrons will attend daytime student matinees of ROMEO AND JULIET and participate in guided classroom activities designed to help them explore the show’s language, historical context, and production elements. Hartford Stage serves middle and high school students from schools (more than half Title I) across the Hartford area and surrounding region, including NY and MA.