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February 16, 2021

Watch Now: Romantic Art Stops performances at the San Diego Museum of Art

Enjoy our annual love-inspired SDMA performance—virtually this year—combining art from the Museum’s collection and spooky poetry and selections from

Category iconPerformances Tag iconart,  balboa park,  covid,  museum,  pandemic,  romantic,  virtual,  zoom

Border

January 13, 2021

Watch Now: “California Dreamin’: Shakespeare and the Border” with Dr. Letty García

Letty García is the UC President's Postdoctoral Scholar in English at UC Santa Barbara. She is primarily interested in Shakespeare and Race, cultural

Category iconLectures Tag iconborder,  california,  chicano,  culture,  hispanic,  immigrant,  latino,  mexico,  race,  shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing

December 8, 2020

Announcing Our Open Readings Series for 2021

6 wonderful plays and 6 fantastic leaders! We're so excited to have the following plays and directors for our next season! Thanks to our

Category iconReadings Tag icon2021,  as you like it,  caesar,  cymbeline,  julius caesar,  much ado,  Much ado about nothing,  open readings,  readings,  tempest,  titus andronicus,  virtual,  zoom

November 25, 2020

New Podcast: Appreciating Shakespeare with Dr. Rap

Episode 1: What's So Great about Shakespeare? Series I, Chapter 1, Session 1 Find more episodes here! Don't miss this new show, produced and

Category iconResources Tag iconaudio,  gideon rappaport,  language,  lecture,  mastery,  podcast,  presentations,  series,  shakespeare,  study,  theatre

November 4, 2020

Watch Now: Spooky Art Stops performances at the San Diego Museum of Art

Enjoy our annual Halloween-inspired SDMA performance—virtually this year—combining art from the Museum’s collection and spooky poetry and selections

Category iconPerformances Tag iconart,  balboa park,  covid,  death,  ghosts,  halloween,  macbeth,  museum,  othello,  pandemic,  spirits,  spooky,  tempest,  virtual,  zoom

October 28, 2020

Watch Now: “Shakespearean Sonnets as Dialogue” with Prof. Paul Majkut

Download an audio version here. In this discussion, Paul will present a short restructuring of the sonnets to give voice for two characters:

Category iconLectures Tag icondark lady,  may december,  shakespeare,  sonnets

October 15, 2020

Political Shakespeare: Lincoln, Hamlet, and a Civil War Cartoon

As we find ourselves in an election year, we look back over 150 years ago to another presidential race that was equally spirited. Here's Gordon

Category iconCommentary,  History Tag iconabraham lincoln,  civil war,  gettysburg,  governor,  gravedigger,  hamlet,  new york,  president,  yorick

October 6, 2020

Watch now: Students perform Shakespeare in the Virtual Festival!

While our annual Student Festival didn't happen this year, our producing partner Write Out Loud persevered and continued to work with and coach

Category iconPerformances Tag iconas you like it,  covid,  midsummer,  Midsummer Night’s Dream,  pandemic,  richard ii,  shakespeare festival,  star wars,  student festival,  students,  virtual,  zoom

September 19, 2020

The Shakespeare Showcase returns with new characters!

To continue our motto that "we do Shakespeare all year 'round", we've asked members to share a sonnet or speech in our second online Showcase! We

Category iconPerformances Tag iconcassius,  coronavirus,  covid,  henry vi,  julius caesar,  online,  richard,  romeo and juliet,  san diego,  sheltering,  showcase,  sonnet

September 2, 2020

Watch Now: “Engaging Kids with Shakespeare” with Brendan Kelso

Download an audio version here. Brendan from Playing with Plays will share: Ways to engage your kids with Shakespeare and classics works!How to

Category iconLectures Tag iconclassroom,  fun,  games,  kids,  school,  shakespeare

August 5, 2020

Our New Board Members!

From the recent call for nominations, the Board of Directors selected two new members to join us. Welcome to Laura and Amanda! Laura

Category iconUpdate Tag iconboard,  directors,  members

Sandra Maas

April 25, 2020

Our Sheltering Shakespeare Showcase!

To celebrate Shakespeare 456th birthday (he doesn't look a day over 302!), we've asked members to share a sonnet or speech in our first ever, online

Category iconPerformances Tag iconas you like it,  coronavirus,  covid,  epilogue,  journalist,  online,  san diego,  sandra maas,  sheltering,  showcase,  sonnet,  tempest

April 4, 2020

Our First Ever Online Open Reading

Join us for our very FIRST virtual reading—and you're invited, wherever you are! April 7th at 5:30 pm PST Click HERE at that date and time to

Category iconReadings Tag iconcomedy,  online,  open reading,  shakespeare,  virtual

March 21, 2020

Shakespeare’s Quarantine Round-up

Here's where to get your fix for everything Shakespeare ONLINE during these strange times! Enter Sofa Shakespeare San Diego Shakespeare

Category iconResources Tag iconamazon,  movies,  netflix,  readings,  streaming,  video

March 13, 2020

March and April Events Will Be Suspended

To our valued community, Like many other organizations, we have been discussing the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and how our events could

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