Take a look into fun moments from our past.
Videos From Past Years
The News Journal preview video for the 2016 Summer Festival production of The Comedy of Errors.
WHYY First segment featuring the 2015 Summer Festival production of The Taming of the Shrew.
Click here for “I Am Hamlet” Videos – interviews with Delawareans about key Hamlet speeches.
Click here for several behind the scenes videos from our journey to create the 2013 Festival production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Matthew S. Meyer, County Executive. New Castle County's Rockwood Park is the summer home of Delaware Shakespeare. www.rockwood.org
Delaware Shakespeare is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on delawarescene.org.
Delaware Shakespeare is delighted to have Janssen's Market as our Picnic Sponsor. www.janssensmarket.com
Highmark Delaware is our Children's Activity Tent Sponsor.
www.highmarkbcbsde.com
Swigg is our Wine Shop Sponsor.
www.swiggwine.com
Delmarva Power have generously donated assistance and resources to Delaware Shakespeare. www.delmarva.com
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