Tara Bradway

After a year of suspended operations, the Adirondack Shakespeare Company returns with a week of performances this summer from July 31-August 4. This year's festival season is centered around magic, mystery, and mischief. A company of 8 professional actors will perform festival favorites Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream from the shores of Lake George and Schroon Lake to an idyllic farm in Essex.

After eight years of summer performances, Adirondack Shakespeare Company will suspend operations this season.

Adirondack Shakespeare Company opens its Spring Repertory Season to the public on Friday, April 28th at Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake with a new production of Macbeth, the famous tragedy of the Scottish King. 

Since 2010, the Adirondack Shakespeare Company has been serving up a world-class Summer Festival Season in upstate New York with professional productions of classical plays and original works for children. This year in addition to its regular line-up, the Company is adding an Arts & Crafts Workshop to its children play, Songs of the Iroquois: Turtle Island thanks to an ongoing fundraiser through Adirondack Gives.

Although the weather can't seem to make up its mind about what season it is, Adirondack Shakespeare Company is full-swing into summer mode. But they're aiming high at a new change to this year's children's programming: an Arts & Crafts Workshop to pair with this year's original play, Songs of the Iroquois: Turtle Island. A fundraising campaign seeking $1,000 just went live on Adirondack Gives, and the group is looking to raise the full amount before the start of their Summer Festival Season on July 9.

ADK Shakespeare Company is launching its first spring tour of upstate NY this year with productions of Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Performances by the company's fully professional cast will be on tour from Saratoga Springs to Upper Jay from April 10-19.

The Adirondack Shakespeare Company, known for their unique Shakespeare IN THE RAW technique, will be returning to the Adirondack region for their fifth annual Summer Festival Season this July.

Spice up your Sunday evenings as we look hopefully towards spring with some fantastic theater from Adirondack Shakespeare Company. The troupe teams up with Lake Placid Center for the Arts to present a new 'Sunday Shakespeare Series' this month with three original mash-ups of the Bard's greatest hits.

When it comes to presenting labours of love, Adirondack Shakespeare Company can't lose. The professional theatre troupe is preparing for its first ever autumn tour with Shakespeare's delightful early comedy, Love's Labour's Lost.

Instead of three mainstage repertory productions and a children's show (which has been the company's norm), ADK Shakes is focusing their efforts on touring a new children's show, producing a staged reading of Much Ado About Nothing, and performing a lively collection of scenes, sonnets, and songs adapted from Shakespeare entitled The Course of True Love.

The Adirondack Shakespeare Company announced this week that their upcoming productions of 1,2,3 Henry VI and Richard III would not only be an opportunity to experience Shakespeare's portrayal of the War of the Roses, but a chance to lend support to modern day war veterans, through the company's sponsorship of the IAVA (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America).

The Adirondack Shakespeare Company returns to the Manhattan theatre scene,partnering once again with St. John's University College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Law to present four of Shakespeare's early history plays.

Adirondack Shakespeare Company's third annual Summer Festival Season is coming to a close, but there's still a few more chances to catch Shakespeare in the RAW in Adirondack Park. The company has announced that the final performances of their mainstage and touring shows will be held at Lake Placid Center for the Arts.

The Adirondack Shakespeare Company (ADK Shakes) will return to their favorite venue this summer to perform Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Hamlet as well as Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and an original children's play, The Twelve Labors of Hercules.

The Adirondack Shakespeare Company (ADK Shakes) will return to their favorite venue this summer to perform Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Hamlet as well as Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and an original children's play, The Twelve Labors of Hercules.

With a two-week tour of their original children's show, The Twelve Labors of Hercules already under their belt, the Adirondack Shakespeare Company is currently preparing for their ambitious third annual Summer Festival Season. This year's mainstage productions include Shakespeare's Twelfth Night andHamlet as well as Tom Stoppard's modern comedy, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

The Adirondack Shakespeare Company welcomed audiences to the first performance of The Twelve Labors of Hercules this past Wednesday, July 11th. Check out production photos from the first week below!

Adirondack Shakespeare Company's original children's programming continues this year with The Twelve Labors of Hercules, an adventure story written by Jessica Hackett.

The Adirondack Shakespeare Company is back for their third Summer Festival Season and they're bringing the Bard's best with them! This year's season features Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Hamlet, as well as Tom Stoppard's hilarious comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and a new ADK Shakes original children's show!

Shakespeare IN THE RAW is about to return to Schroon Lake! The Adirondack Shakespeare Company (ADK Shakes) is back for their third annual Summer Festival Season and prepared to present some of the finest comedy and tragedy that the Bard has to offer.