Grantee tags Shakespeare

“While You Are Out”

Sova Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

"While You Were Out" features Justin Perlman & Adelka Polak's original hand, rod & shadow puppets created from natural plant materials, textiles and handmade papers. These larger than life figures construct Shakespeare's fairy kingdom in this live theatrical experience of "Midsummer Night's Dream." Read More

OPHELIA

Marcin, Nadja Verena

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

“OPHELIA” is an architectural performance and video sculpture that draws from the Shakespearean character and Millais’s homonymous painting (1851-52) and re-imagines this mythical character within the framework of gender inequality and climate change. Read More

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Central Park, Prospect Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park

New York Classical Theatre

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

New York Classical Theatre presented a professional, Off-Broadway production of William Shakespeare’s classic comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on tour throughout Central Park, Rockefeller Park, Prospect Park, and Carl Schurz Park in June and July 2016--at no cost to our diverse, urban audiences. Read More

Very Serious Theatre

Messenger Theatre Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Very Serious Theatre features masked performers who attempt to stage Shakespeare’s plays but always mess them up. For our two improvised performances to International High School at LGCC, we incorporated what the students were reading so we did a comedy mash-up of Romeo and Juliet and The Stranger. Read More

Shakespeare(ISH) (2014)

Rogue Artists Ensemble

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Rogue Artists Ensemble’s Shakespeare(ish) remixes Shakespeare’s best characters, poetry and plot devices with puppets, masks and original music. Read More

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's Sister Company/Kris Lundberg

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

This all-female production is set in the roaring 1920s of Chicago amid gang rivalries and power struggles between the Italian and Irish within the underworld culture exploring the violent nature of gangsters and a women’s right to rise up in society. Read More