Shakespeare and Stoppard highlight Cleveland Shakespeare Festival's Eleventh Season

The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce our eleventh season of bringing free, outdoor theater to Northeast Ohio! Our Summer 2008 season will feature, in repertory, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (directed by Dana Hart), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard (directed by John C. Davis.)

Mr. Davis will also be the fight choreographer for both productions.

Each production will have its own opening weekend, and then both shows will tour in repertory to three traditional and two brand new venues in various communities across Northeast Ohio over the next five weekends.

The season will run from June 20th through August 3rd. Audition dates and a more detailed production schedule are detailed below.

Presenting these two daring productions in six different venues over seven weekends will make this our biggest, boldest and most widely seen season yet! We are very excited to make new friends, revisit old ones, and share the magic of theater - both old and new - with everyone along the way.

We hope you will join us!

Seven weeks of Shakespeare and two new venues!

CLICK HERE TO GET DRIVING DIRECTIONS FOR THIS WEEKEND!

William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

Directed By Dana Hart

June 20 - Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus, Parma, OH
June 21 - Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus, Parma, OH
July 5 - Falls River Square Amphitheater, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
July 12 - Penitentiary Glen Nature Center, Kirtland, OH
July 19 - Shaker Heights Colonnade, Shaker Heights, OH
July 26 - Stocker Center for the Arts, Elyria, OH
August 2 - Tremont's Lincoln Park Gazebo, Cleveland, OH

Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"

Directed By John C. Davis

June 27 - Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus, Parma, OH
June 28 - Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus, Parma, OH
July 6 - Falls River Square Amphitheater, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
July 13 - Penitentiary Glen Nature Center, Kirtland, OH
July 20 - Shaker Heights Colonnade, Shaker Heights, OH
July 27 - Stocker Center for the Arts, Elyria, OH
August 3 - Tremont's Lincoln Park Gazebo, Cleveland, OH

All performances begin promptly at 7 PM.

Programs are edited to run approximately one hour, forty-five minutes and are performed without an intermission.

Although various quantities of limited seating is available at some of the venues - bringing a blanket, cushions, or lawn chairs is strongly advised. Picnics are permitted but none of our venues permit alcoholic beverages to be brought onto the premises.

Alternate indoor performance space is available for all performance dates EXCEPT*

Sat. 07/05 and Sat. 07/12. We make every attempt to avoid canceling any performance, as rescheduling is impossible, but should either of those two dates meet with seriously inclement weather, possibility does exist that the safety of both patrons and actors may require us to cancel prior to starting or even mid performance should a light drizzle become a downpour. Repeat after me; “It Will Not Rain. It Will Not Rain. It Will Not...”