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THE WIZARD OF OZ to be Presented at Alabama Shakespeare Festival


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 20, 2025

Alabama Shakespeare Festival will present The Wizard of Oz, directed by Melissa Rain Anderson on the Festival Stage. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets here!...

KUDZU CALLING Comes to Alabama Shakespeare Festival


by Stephi Wild - May 13, 2025

Alabama Shakespeare Festival will present Kudzu Calling, written by Donnetta Lavinia Grays and directed by Kevin R. Free. Learn more about the upcoming production here!...

Review: HAMLET at Alabama Shakespeare Festival


by Russell Warne - April 20, 2025

There is no play more iconic than Hamlet. So colossal is its reputation that the image of a man dressed in black holding a skull has come to represent the entire art form of live theatre. ...

Review: SHERWOOD THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD at Alabama Shakespeare Festival


by Russell Warne - March 27, 2025

After the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's recent success with Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise, I was optimistic about their newest production, also penned by Ludwig. Entitled Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, the play is a logical choice for a Shakespeare Festival....

Review: THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM at Alabama Shakespeare Festival


by Russell Warne - February 09, 2025

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival's latest production is a historical drama that portrays a Black family making a road trip to destiny....

Past Shows

Dear Jack, Dear Louise
9/26 - 5/31/2025


Dear Jack, Dear Louise opens the 2024-25 season at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival on September 26, 2024. This production explores the bittersweet correspondence between two ...

The Wizard of Oz
5/1 - 5/31/2025


The Wizard of Oz will enchant audiences at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival from May 1 to May 31, 2025. This beloved musical brings to life ...

Kudzu Calling
4/1 - 4/30/2025


Kudzu Calling is set to open at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival on April 1, 2025, and will run through April 30. Under the new artistic ...

Hamlet
3/1 - 3/31/2025


Hamlet, a timeless tragedy by William Shakespeare, is set to run at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival from March 1 to March 31, 2025. This production ...


Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood is set to run at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival from February 1 to February 28, 2025. This rendition reimagines ...


The Watsons Go To Birmingham will be featured at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival from January 1 to January 31, 2025. The production explores a family's ...

A Christmas Carol
12/1 - 12/31/2024


A Christmas Carol will take the stage at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival from December 1 to December 31, 2024. This beloved holiday classic brings to ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat


One of the most enduring shows of all time,  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat  is a humorous retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph, ...

Zelda in the Backyard (WORLD PREMIERE)


When Libby inherits a wrecked 1961 Rolls Royce, she sets off on a journey to reassemble the car and pieces of the past her father ...

Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery


Get your deerstalker cap on — the play’s afoot! Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must crack the mystery of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” before ...

Blues in the Night
Blues in the Night
2/8 - 3/3/2024


The soul of the blues wails out full and strong in  Blues in the Night , a scorching, Tony-nominated musical! The 26 hot and torchy ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
11/16 - 12/24/2023


ASF returns to a full production of Charles Dickens’  A Christmas Carol  on the Festival Stage. When miserly Ebenezer Scrooge receives an unwanted visit from ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
9/14 - 10/1/2023


ASF Artistic Director Rick Dildine brings Shakespeare’s classic comedy to life with a dazzling production. Four young lovers facing the prospect of an unhappy marriage ...

Cabaret
Cabaret
7/6 - 8/6/2023


One of the most famous American musicals of all time — from the creators of  Chicago  —  Cabaret  takes us to 1929 Berlin during the ...

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play


This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few ...

The Marvelous Wonderettes
The Marvelous Wonderettes
5/24 - 6/26/2022


This smash Off-Broadway hit takes us to the 1958 Springfield High School prom, where we meet and learn about the lives and loves of Betty ...

Freedom Rider
Freedom Rider
4/8 - 4/24/2022


WORLD PREMIERE | Directed by Ricardo Khan | In May 1961, four young students join others aboard a southbound bus in Washington, DC, to challenge ...

Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
3/3 - 4/3/2022


In this deviously delicious sci-fi rock musical, meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names Audrey II (after his ...

Macbeth
Macbeth
2/4 - 2/24/2022


Dunsinanes power couple embarks on a blind ambition tour of betrayal and bloodletting when Scottish nobleman Macbeth is told by witches that he will become ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
11/26 - 12/27/2020


A one-woman tour de force starring ASF favorite, Greta Lambert. Grab your loved ones and watch as Greta brings this beloved holiday classic to life! ...

PIPELINE
PIPELINE
10/17 - 10/27/2019


A childs life hangs in the balance. This mother knows the pitfalls of growing up in her neighborhood too many chances for her son to ...

Buzz
Buzz
9/4 - 9/15/2019


Charismatic director Mary Ann Buzz Goodbody was one of only five women directing in the UK in the 1970s. In 1975, she famously directed Ben ...

The Glass Menagerie
10/13 - 11/5/2017


Tennessee Williams....

The Comedy of Errors- On Tour


For one night only, Alabama's only regional theatre will bring their production of " A Comedy of Errors" by William Shakespeare, to the Dorothy Jemison ...

Around the World in 80 Days
4/19 - 5/19/2013


Festival Stage: - adapt: Mark Brown....

God of Carnage
4/18 - 5/19/2013


Festival Stage: - Yazmina Reza....

Macbeth
1/25 - 5/18/2013


Festival Stage: - William Shakespeare....

To Kill A Mockingbird
3/8 - 5/18/2013


Festival Stage: - adapt: Christopher Sergel....

Twelfth Night
3/28 - 5/9/2013


Octagon: - William Shakespeare....

Ethel
2/8 - 3/3/2013


Octagon: - Terry Burrell....

NANTA
7/10 - 7/15/2012

A Midsummer Night's Dream
4/21 - 5/20/2012

Henry VIII
3/7 - 5/20/2012

The 39 Steps
1/27 - 5/19/2012

Travels with My Aunt
2/3 - 5/19/2012

Merry Wives of Windsor
4/11 - 5/18/2012


front lawn: - William Shakespeare....

In the Book Of
1/5 - 1/22/2012


Gompertz Theatre: - John Walch....

A Christmas Memory
11/25 - 12/24/2011

Dracula
10/7 - 10/30/2011

Videos


Anastasia: The New Broadway Musical in Birmingham Anastasia: The New Broadway Musical
Bean-Brown Theatre (7/23 - 7/27)
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley in Birmingham Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
The Cloverdale Playhouse (12/11 - 12/21)
The Book of Will in Birmingham The Book of Will
The Cloverdale Playhouse (10/9 - 10/19)
The Music Man in Birmingham The Music Man
Leeds Arts Council (7/24 - 8/3)
& JULIET in Birmingham & JULIET
BJCC Concert Hall (5/19 - 5/24)
Liverpool Legends The Complete Beatles Experience in Birmingham Liverpool Legends The Complete Beatles Experience
Pensacola Saenger Theatre (8/1 - 8/1)
The Mysterious Journey of Edward Tulane in Birmingham The Mysterious Journey of Edward Tulane
The Cloverdale Playhouse (7/17 - 7/27)
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