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Production History


SUMMER FESTIVAL

At Archmere Academy:

2003: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2004: As You Like It
2005: Love’s Labour’s Lost

At Rockwood Park:

2006: Much Ado About Nothing
2007: Richard III
2008: Romeo and Juliet
2009: Twelfth Night
2010: Macbeth
2011: The Winter’s Tale
2012: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2013: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
2014: Hamlet
2015: The Taming of the Shrew
2016: The Comedy of Errors
2017: Henry V
2018: Much Ado About Nothing
2019: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Coming in 2020: The Tempest

COMMUNITY TOUR

2016: Pericles, Prince of Tyre
2017: As You Like It
2018: The Merchant of Venice
2019: Romeo and Juliet
Coming in 2020: A new MUSICAL adaptation of Twelfth Night

 

The Sonnet Project – for our Socially Distant Times

Del Shakes is using a little bit of iambic pentameter to help us through our socially distant times – posting a reading of a Shakespeare sonnet each weekday. Hopefully we won’t need all 154 of the sonnets! Actors have been particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, seeing months of productions cancelled overnight. You can […]

A Play I Love: Coriolanus — Our New Salon Series Goes ONLINE

UPDATE TO OUR INITIAL A PLAY I LOVE: CORIOLANUS SALON Although this event was planned to be an intimate affair in a private home, it will still go over the 10-person limit that the CDC recommends for group gatherings during the COVID-19 crisis. Therefore, this discussion group will now be a virtual gathering via the […]

Shakespeare Day in Milford – CANCELED

CLICK HERE FOR VOLUNTEER INFORMATION SHEET CLICK HERE FOR MORE ABOUT HOW TO JOIN US AS AN AUDIENCE MEMBER Event canceled due to health conditions. April 23, 2020 is William Shakespeare’s 456th birthday. To celebrate, Delaware Shakespeare would like to present every single play Shakespeare ever wrote in the course of one hour, in downtown […]

Now hiring: Marketing & Business Associate

Del Shakes seeks a professional arts/nonprofit associate to support its year-round programming and help the company continue to grow. Specifically, the marketing & business associate will oversee and implement marketing and public relations tasks, develop and implement earned income opportunities, work with a bookkeeper to process all company financial transactions, and, in tandem with the […]

2020 Season Announcement – It will have you singing!

Delaware Shakespeare’s two full productions in 2020 are united by water, by storms, by shipwrecks, and also by music, by magic, by love, by family members forgiven and restored. The 18th annual Summer Festival will be The Tempest. Producing Artistic Director David Stradley will direct the production, his first Summer Festival show since 2016’s The […]

Summer Festival Location

Rockwood Park
4651 Washington Street Extension
Wilmington, DE 19809
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4 S. Poplar Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Phone: 302-468-4890
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We envision a Delaware where people from all walks of life celebrate and explore their shared humanity through the lens of Shakespearean works.
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