Thanks To A New Sponsor Chesapeake Shakespeare Continues Free Tickets For Kids

The award-winning Chesapeake Shakespeare Company continues its tradition of free children's tickets all summer due to the generous support of new sponsors, after losing its previous corporate funder of the popular program.

Due to the troubled economy, CSC lost its summer sponsor for free children's admission and was initially planning to make up the lost revenue by charging for children's tickets. Instead, Booz Allen Hamilton stepped in to partly fill the void, allowing for free children's admission on Sundays. Then, over the past month, CSC's commitment to family-accessible theatre motivated the Columbia Foundation, Howard County General Hospital, Brown Advisory, and the Allegis Group Foundation to further sponsor free children's admission. Thanks to their generosity, all children 18 and under will receive free admission when accompanied by a paying adult.

CSC always offers Fun Family Summer Sundays with activities specifically geared for children. There will be a fight demonstration, may-pole dancing, face-painting and a storytelling of that evening's performance.

Children will be able to enjoy Cyrano de Bergerac, the swashbuckling romance of unrequited love, and Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's delightful comedy, performed outdoors among the picturesque ruins of the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park, Ellicott City, Maryland.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com, by calling 866.811.4111 or prior to the performance at the box office. Groups of 10 or more, please call 410.313.8874. For general information, call the CSC offices at 410.313.8874. (5/21/09)

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