Fiscal Year: 2024

Cirque visionary Shana Carroll conceived and directs DUEL REALITY, an acrobatic adaptation of ROMEO AND JULIET. Performed by Montreal-based The 7 Fingers, this production takes the conflict at the heart of ROMEO AND JULIET and sets it in a sports arena. The heightened physicality and emotion of the setting modernizes the production and makes it more accessible to a wide array of audiences.

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.

Shakespeare Dallas will deepen students’ understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare with student matinees of Julius Caesar, in-person enrichment, and study guides. Support from Shakespeare in American Communities enables the company to offer this program – including tickets and transportation – free or deeply subsidized to a minimum 10 public schools in culturally underserved areas.

Shakespeare on Tour will perform "Romeo & Juliet" for ~ 50 middle and high schools, over 5 of which with a majority of students coming from under-resourced communities. These fully staged one-hour productions consist solely of Shakespeare’s language and include teacher curriculum provided in advance in addition to post show actor Q&As and opportunity for supplemental actor-led Playshops.

The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s annual Shakespeare in the Schools touring program reaches thousands of students throughout a 6-state region in the Intermountain West with a focus on schools for whom geography might otherwise limit arts access and participation. Our 2025 production will be Henry IV!

The actors in TSC’s MACBETH share in unfolding the story alongside students as they remain on stage for the entirety of the performance, changing roles in the moment. The theme of community versus individual responsibility is explored. The in-class education component engages students through speaking Shakespeare’s language, discovering characters’ motives, and exposing the play’s conflicts.

Keegan Theatre will present an original adaptation of ROMEO AND JULIET inspired by DC students. Students from five DC high schools will work with Keegan Teaching Artists during in-school workshops to provide culturally relevant context from their own lived experiences to inspire a devised adaptation of ROMEO AND JULIET to be performed by professional actors for the students at Keegan Theatre.

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.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will produce touring versions of ROMEO AND JULIET and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM for our SHAKESPEARE LIVE! troupe to perform in schools, community venues, and our theatre. Study guides, talkbacks with the actors, and “on your feet” workshops all help students connect with Shakespeare’s themes and language, and no school is denied a tour based on ability to pay.

Since 2005, TAM's Shakespeare in Maine Communities (ShakesME) has taken the Bard on the road through 90-minute versions of a Shakespeare play with four to eight actor/educators. Plays are fully designed, rehearsed, and tour for three weeks to schools and community centers throughout Maine. For our 2024-25 ShakesME production we will present Romeo & Juliet.