Stratford Summer Arts Festival
July 11 - August 17, 2008
Stratford, CT
All Tickets: $10 Donation Requested. Please Pay at the Door. THANK YOU!
Stratford Summer Arts Festival – Full Calendar
More Than 30 Theatre Events!
July 10 (7 pm) - Stratford Library Lovell Room
MURDERERS by Jeffrey Hatcher
Part of the Stratford Library’s weekly staged reading series.
July 10 –12 (7 pm) – Square One Theatre Company (2422 Main Street)
PLAZA SUITE by Neil Simon
Square One Theatre Company’s student season brings this modern classic to the stage.
July 11 (7 pm) – Boothe Park
NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(Remote Parking at Shakespeare Theatre)
Join Music Director William Boughton and the NHSO in a summer celebration of all things American. American Earth features Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, Sousa’s Liberty Bell March, Copland’s Rodeo, Leroy Anderson’s Horse & Buggy and Fiddle Faddle, and Barber’s Knoxville Summer of 1915. The concert will be conducted by Music Director William Boughton and features soprano, Samantha Talmadge.
An innovative feature of these performances is an audience play-a-long. Instrumentalists young and old will be able to download copies of three well known works: The Star Spangled, America the Beautiful, and the Pomp and Circumstance March, rehearse their parts, and bring their instrument, music and music stand to the concert that night.
Towards the end of the concert "community performers" will be invited to play-a-long with the NHSO (with a little coaching by NHSO Music Director William Boughton).
To request music ahead of time please click this link to send an email request. PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND INSTRUMENT THAT YOU PLAY.
July 12 – August 2 (Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm) Boothe Park
ROMEO & JULIET – The Players at Putney Gardens
Jeremy Funke directs this timeless classic about love and tragedy.
Produced by Peter Wood.
Featuring:
Lydia Barnett-Mulligan, O’Hagan Blades, Michelle Duncan, Margaret Emley,
Jeremy Funke, Peter Garrity, Anna Hayes, Aubrey Kyburz, Dean Kyburz,
Josh Hollaman, Kevin McGuire, David Thier, Andrew Wagner, Peter Wood
July 17 (7 pm) - Stratford Library Lovell Room
THIRD by Wendy Wasserstein
Part of the Stratford Library’s weekly staged reading series.
July 19 (2 pm) – Stratford Library, back amphitheatre
KING JOHN – Hudson Shakespeare Company
A cast of merry players brings this Shakespeare classic to the Town of Stratford.
July 22 (7 pm) – Stratford Library Lovell Room
PANEL DISCUSSION – Romeo & Juliet
Directors and cast members of both Romeo & Juliet productions from the Stratford Summer Arts Festival will participate in a discussion about the play the two very different versions of the play being presented. Directors include Jeremy Funke and T. Paul Lowery.
July 24 (7 pm) - Stratford Library Lovell Room
FROM DOOR TO DOOR by James Sherman
Part of the Stratford Library’s weekly staged reading series.
July 31 (7 pm) - Stratford Library Lovell Room
To Be Determined
Part of the Stratford Library’s weekly staged reading series.
August 7 – 17 (8 pm) – Shakespeare Festival Theatre
Two Shows:
CRIME SCENE SHAKESPEARE (Thursdays and Saturdays)
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Fridays and Sundays)
T. Paul Lowery directs the New Haven Theatre Company in this extravaganza of Shakespeare. One production is a postmodern take on Romeo & Juliet, complete with web-submitted video (the first Shakespeare production of its kind). The other production is a classical rendering of the much loved summer romp.
August 12 & 13 (7:00 p.m. Tuesday & Wednesday)
Shakespeare Festival Theatre
QUICKIES IN THE PARK
The Best of Quickies in the Stacks - The Stratford Library
(Original Works by SquareWrights Playwrights)
In 2004, a group of playwrights started a gathering with a common cause. They called it the SquareWrights Playwright Center. And have sinced debuted nearly a hundred new plays by local playwrights. Please enjoy these "best" plays from the Stratford Library's "Quickies in the Stacks."
August 14 & 17 (7:30 p.m. Thursday & Sunday)
Temple Beth Shalom - 275 Huntington Road
BROOKLYN BOY by Donald Margulies – The Temple Players
A struggling novelist finally hits it big with a best-seller just as his marriage is falling apart, his elderly father is dying, and his childhood friend re-enters his life encouraging him to re-explore the Jewish roots he abandoned.
August 23 (2 pm) – Stratford Library, back amphitheatre
JULIUS CEASAR – Hudson Shakespeare Company
A cast of merry players brings this Shakespeare classic to the Town of Stratford.
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