Initial Submissions For Gateway To Shakespeare Due By 9/28
Gateway to Shakespeare is a consortium of Shakespeare related performances and events designed to spotlight Shakespeare in the coming year. In support of all Shakespeare-related performance and educational events during the upcoming St. Louis Theatre Season, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, in celebration of its Tenth Anniversary Year, is collecting for cross- promotion projects and performance dates from organizations and individuals for any Shakespeare related public event from October 2009 - July 2010. Participation might include a Shakespeare related theatre production, film or staged reading, concert, window display or artistic installation, Guinness World Record attempt.
Throughout the season Gateway to Shakespeare will encourage everyone in St. Louis to become aware of how much Shakespeare is a part of the artistic fabric of our lives and to see and enjoy as much Shakespeare around town as possible.
If you have a production, reading, concert or education project open to the public that you would like to include under the Gateway to Shakespeare banner, email your event title, description, dates and times, and directions to further information to climber@sfstl.com for inclusion in periodic press announcements starting in October, '09 and a Gateway to Shakespeare web page on the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis website that will be linked to by participating theatre and arts organizations.
Initial submissions are requested by September 28, 2009, to be updated monthly.
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis is celebrating its tenth anniversary year. Each year, beginning Memorial Day weekend, the Festival produces a Shakespeare play in Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park, free to the public. Hamlet will be the Festival's 2010 production, running from May 26 through June 20, nightly except Tuesdays.
Throughout the year, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis reaches out to diverse audiences by providing education programs for schools and the community. Shakespeare Festival St. Louis accommodates people who have special needs. Performances in Forest Park are wheelchair accessible. Thursday performances are signed for the hearing impaired. For more information regarding the Festival and its programs, visit www.shakespearefestivalstlouis.org or call (314) 531-9800.
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God of Carnage New Jewish Theatre (NJT) (6/11-6/28) |
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Prince Caspian Branson Hillside Theatre (6/12-8/08) |
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Stages St. Louis at the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center (5/29-6/28) |
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The Light in the Piazza Loretto-Hilton Center (5/30-6/28) |
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The Wasp by Morgan Lloyd Malcom Albion Theatre (6/12-6/28) |
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We Will Rock You The Marcelle Theater (6/04-6/27) |
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Ludo The Pageant (10/24-10/24) |
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Liverpool Legends "The Complete Beatles Experience!" Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center (6/27-6/27) |
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USAF Band of Mid-America “Freedom 250” Concert Faust Park (7/07-7/07) |
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2026 WSIE Music Series w/Yacht Rockers – June 27, 7-9pm Harold Square Outdoor Amphitheater (6/27-6/27) |