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STAY
UP-TO-DATE ON EVERYTHING EDUCATION!
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The
28th season of Shakespeare LIVE! kicks off on March 6. The 2024
touring company has arrived at the Theatre Factory and rehearsals are
in full swing. The tour will travel to four different states,
conducting workshops and performing A Midsummer Night's
Dream and Julius Caesar for thousands of
students in the Mid-Atlantic region. If you know any schools who want
to excite their students about Shakespeare, reach out!
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Long-time
Education Director, Brian B. Crowe, officially stepped into his role as
Artistic Director on January 1st of this year and longtime Associate Director of
Education, Doug West, has returned to the company to assume the
position of Director of Education. 2024 will be Doug's 23rd season
with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and he's looking forward to
continuing all of the education programs you know and love such as Lend
Us Your Ears and Shakesperience, and launching some new programs in 2024.
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Short
Shakespeare Returns
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Mark
your calendars! March 9th is the first public performance of the year.
The 2024 Educational Shakespeare LIVE! tour will perform A
Midsummer Night's Dream and Julius Caesar for public
audiences at The F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre. Our 75-minute,
family-friendly presentations are a fun first Shakespeare for kids and
adults alike, and they have also become a favorite annual event for
Shakespeare fans.
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March 9 @ 11am - A
Midsummer Night's Dream*
March 9 @ 2 pm - Julius
Caesar
April 23 @ 7:30 pm - A
Midsummer Night's Dream**
April 26 @ 8pm - A
Midsummer Night's Dream
April 27 @ 11 am - A
Midsummer Night's Dream
April 27 @ 2 pm - Julius
Caesar
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*Relaxed
Performance
**Bard's
Birthday Bash
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Classics
for Kids! Kicks off March 9
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Classics for Kids!, now in its second year, seeks to foster a love and
appreciation for classic literature and theatre in young, burgeoning
audiences. The 2024 season will feature an exciting collection of
classics, promising an engaging and joyous year of theatre for families.
The Spring lineup is:
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March 9 - Short
Shakespeare: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, relaxed performance
April 13 - The Tanglewood
Marionettes: CINDERELLA
June 1 - A Scripts-in-Hand
presentation of THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
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Fall dates will be announced soon.
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Theatre
for All: Relaxed Performances
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The
first Classics for Kids! presentation for 2024 is our
relaxed and abridged Short Shakespeare performance A Midsummer
Night's Dream on March 9. This performance will be offered in
a less formal environment hopefully making it more comfortable and
accessible for our patrons with different sensory,
communication, movement, and learning needs, as well as younger patrons
new to the theatre.
The Theatre is proud to bring back relaxed
programming in an ongoing effort to make theatre more accessible for
every patron. For more information on the relaxed format, please check
out our accessibility page.
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Book Club — Into the Woods
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As
one of the most iconic settings in fairytales, ancient mythology, and
all manner of literary traditions, the Woods remove us from the safety
and familiarity of civilization. In a darkened forest,
anything can happen as heroes and heroines face mysterious forces,
dangerous encounters, and magical experiences that ultimately alter the
course of their stories and even their lives.
This
spring, join our Shakespeare Book Club as we set forth into the Forest
of Arden with one of Shakespeare’s most famed heroines in As
You Like It, wander the Welsh woodlands in Shakespeare’s
rarely produced fairytale, Cymbeline, and dance with
the devil in the woods of 17th century Salem in Arthur Miller's The
Crucible.
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Bring on
the Summer Shakespeare!
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The
mainstage may be quiet at this time of year, but the Theatre Factory is
abuzz with preparations for our summer education programs. Each summer
scores of students ages 10-18 explore the world of Shakespeare through
performance in our Junior and Senior Shakespeare Corps, while
college-age students push their craft to the next level with classes
and hands-on experience as interns and acting apprentices in
our Summer Professional Training Program.
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Click here to learn more about our college-level
Summer Professional Training Internships and Apprenticeships.
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Click here to learn more about our Shakespeare Corps
for performers
ages 10-18.
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Stay tuned for information about new programming!
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