Howard County-based Chesapeake Shakespeare Company today announces the acquisition of the historic Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company building in downtown Baltimore, which will serve as its second home and establish a new cultural center for live performances of Shakespeare and other classics just two blocks from the city's celebrated Inner Harbor.
Now celebrating its tenth year at the Ruins in Ellicott City, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company presents its most romantic summer season yet thanks to star-crossed lovers and a sparkling comic romance. Returning to the picturesque PFI Historic Park, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company will present two of the most timeless of love stories:Romeo and Juliet and Pride and Prejudice.
The Lark Play Development Center hosted a special event on October 11th celebrating playwright Katori Hall on her Broadway debut with The Mountaintop. (The Mountaintop was extensively developed at the Lark.) Lark board member and playwright Sandi Goff Farkas was also honored at the October 11th event with the first every Lark Risktaker Award for her creation of the Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship. The Risktaker Award recognizes the leadership, vision and commitment of an individual who has defied convention in making a major contribution to supporting daring new voices in the American theater.
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Maryland's leading professional classic theatre company begins its 2011-2012 season with productions of Our Town, The Merchant of Venice, Pride and Prejudice, and Romeo and Juliet.
This fall, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Maryland's leading professional classic theatre company, will present Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Our Town, at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park. This timeless classic will be performed as a moveable production weekends in October.
This fall, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Maryland's leading professional classic theatre company, will present Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Our Town, at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park. This timeless classic will be performed as a moveable production weekends in October.
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Maryland's leading professional classic theatre company, announces its 2011-2012 season with productions of Our Town, The Merchant of Venice, Pride and Prejudice, and Romeo and Juliet.
Cheasapeake Shakespeare Company's Managing Director, Lesley Malin, was elected Vice President of the Shakespeare Theatre Association at the 2011 conference held in Boulder, Colorado this January. This position puts her in line to become the association's President in 2012, leading the annual conference to be held in Seattle, Washington.
The Lark Play Development Center, a leading research and development laboratory for playwrights and the American theater, broke ground this month on expanded office and studio performance space in the heart of Manhattan's theater district.
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC), Maryland's leading professional classics theatre, will have its longest stay ever at its Ellicott City summer home in 2010. CSC will present seven weekends of programming to accommodate its growing summer audiences. The eight-year-old company will mount its very first production of Hamlet and a first-time CSC director will helm the production of the always popular Much Ado About Nothing.
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC), Maryland's leading professional classics theatre, will have its longest stay ever at its Ellicott City summer home in 2010. CSC will present seven weekends of programming to accommodate its growing summer audiences.
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC), Maryland's leading professional classics theatre, will have its longest stay ever at its Ellicott City summer home in 2010. CSC will present seven weekends of programming to accommodate its growing summer audiences.
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC), Maryland's leading professional classics theatre, will have its longest stay ever at its Ellicott City summer home in 2010. CSC will present seven weekends of programming to accommodate its growing summer audiences.