The New York Shakespeare Festival, which is using the Wollman Memorial Skating Rink while its theatre near the Belvedere is being completed, began bravely.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada production ran from June 11 to November 7, 2009, with Des McAnuff directing and Wayne Cilento as choreographer.

Sam Waterston later played the role himself at the Delacorte for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and the show transferred to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1975 ( Stephen Lang played Bernardo and other roles ).

Spacey's first professional stage appearance was as a Spear carrier in a New York Shakespeare Festival performance of Henry VI, part 1 in 1981.

Every summer form mid-June to early July, The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival has a production at Southmoreland Park near the Nelson-Atkins Museum.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

Most notable of the professional companies are Nashville Children's Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, the Dance Theatre of Tennessee and the Tennessee Women's Theater Project.

* A nine-month run in 1976 had a new translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett for the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center, with Raúl Juliá as Macheath, Blair Brown as Lucy, and Ellen Greene as Jenny.

The play has been performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival five times beginning in 1975 with William Hutt playing " Lady Bracknell " in both the 1975 and 1976 productions and Brian Bedford in the 2009 production.

In 2011 the Roundabout Theatre Company produced a Broadway revival based on the 2009 Stratford Shakespeare Festival production featuring Brian Bedford as director and as Lady Bracknell.

Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival performed West Side Story in 1999, starring Tyley Ross as Tony and Ma-Anne Dionisio as Maria, and again in 2009 to rave reviews, with Chilina Kennedy as Maria and Paul Nolan as Tony.

* September 6 – September 9 – David Garrick holds the first Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon.

The work received its initial readings from the Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in 2006, and was presented in workshop form in the inaugural season of the Fordham University Lincoln Center Alumni Company in 2008.

A semi-autobiographical depiction of his 1940 romance with Kip Kiernan in Provincetown, Massachusetts, it was produced for the first time on October 1, 2006 in Provincetown by the Shakespeare on the Cape production company, as part of the First Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival.

Suggested elements include a concert venue, an enlarged Chicago Shakespeare Festival space, new restaurants, a renovated commercial area around the Pier's entrance, and additional park-like features to bring people closer to the lake.

The two then went their separate ways, and Sullivan produced his Festival Te Deum ( 1872 ), an oratorio, The Light of the World ( 1873 ), and other pieces, including incidental music for West End productions of several Shakespeare plays.

She made her stage debut in 1961, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet.

The Leeds Shakespeare Festival, performed by the British Shakespeare Company, took place annually in the cloisters from 1995 until 2009.

** Stratford Shakespeare Festival, a theatre festival in Ontario

* Eldon Quick ( born 1937 ), American character actor, an alumnus of the American Shakespeare Festival

In 1981, while at Juilliard, Kilmer co-authored and starred in the play How It All Began, which was performed at the Public Theatre at the New York Shakespeare Festival.

Vince Cardinale as Puck from the Carmel Shakespeare Festival production of " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", Sept., 2000

* The play was produced in 1982 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, with Brian Bedford as Bluntschli and Len Cariou as Sergius.

In the opinion of J. Thomas Looney, as " far as forms of versification are concerned De Vere presents just that rich variety which is so noticeable in Shakespeare ; and almost all the forms he employs we find reproduced in the Shakespeare work.

* February 9 – CBS presents the Royal Shakespeare Company's version of " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", starring Diana Rigg, David Warner, and Helen Mirren.

The theatre presents a varied programme, including Shakespeare and other international classic drama ; and new plays by contemporary playwrights.

Kiernan also presents this side of the coin, noting that Richard " boasts to us of his finesse in dissembling and deception with bits of Scripture to cloak his ' naked villainy ' ( I. iii. 334 – 8 )... Machiavelli, as Shakespeare may want us to realise, is not a safe guide to practical politics ".

In Hall, Henry pardons everyone who surrenders and lets them all return home unpunished, and this is how Shakespeare presents it in the play.

Another historical parallel found in Holinshed is that Henry is presented as unstable, constantly on the brink of madness, something which is not in Hall, who presents a gentle but ineffective King ( again, Shakespeare follows Hall here ).

This article presents a possible chronological listing of the plays of William Shakespeare.

Walpole presents a " more fragmented recasting " of the Ghost in Hamlet, which had served as a representation of the " now unsanctioned, but still popular Catholic view of ghosts as speakers of truth " for Shakespeare The Catholic elements at play within both Hamlet and Otranto are both invoked to represent a further sense of wonder and mystery to the Protestant audience of both works.

During spring and summer the Youth theatre presents productions like Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, Kes, Blood Wedding and even Shakespeare.

The Company presents the richest variety of Canadian and international plays and musicals-edgy, provocative works at the Berkeley Street Theatre, universal productions with broader appeal at the Bluma Appel Theatre and a summer of Shakespeare at the CanStage TD Dream in High Park.

The Public also operates the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where it presents Shakespeare in the Park, one of New York City's most beloved summer traditions.

Timeline of Shakespeare criticism is an informal term that presents a chronological collection of critical quotations about William Shakespeare and his works, which illustrate the article Shakespeare's reputation.

Shakespeare presents love to be something contradicting to one ’ s normal feelings and ideas.

The Stamford Shakespeare Company presents a three-month season each summer.

The subsidised or non-commercial theatre includes the National Theatre, which is based at the South Bank ; the Royal Shakespeare Company which is based in Stratford, but presents seasons in London ; The Globe, a modern reconstruction of the home of Shakespeare's troupe ; The Royal Court Theatre which specialises in new drama ; the Old Vic ; and the Young Vic.

Additionally, Shakespeare to Go presents a limited number of free public performances.

The critic Michael Billington, summarising these events, wrote: " In 1960 the twenty-nine-year-old Peter Hall formally took charge at Stratford-upon-Avon and set about turning a star-laden, six-month Shakespeare festival into a monumental, year-round operation built around a permanent company, a London base and contemporary work from home and abroad.

* Performances and Photographs from London and Stratford performances of Macbeth 1960 – 2000 – From the Designing Shakespeare resource

Conversely, Frank Kermode, in the Riverside Shakespeare, considers the publication of Leir to have been a response to performances of Shakespeare's already-written play ; noting a sonnet by William Strachey that may have verbal resemblances with Lear, Kermode concludes that " 1604-5 seems the best compromise ".

The Kings Theatre, situated in Albert Road, is a venue that hosts a variety of performances, including productions by the local amateur group the Southsea Shakespeare Actors.

He made his final appearances on stage as Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and as King Lear at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1959, although failing health resulted in both performances being disappointing, according to some British critics.

He also established annual Shakespeare festival from 1905 to 1913 that showcased a total over two hundred performances by his company and other acting troupes.

In 1974, Ian Richardson and Richard Pasco alternated the roles of Richard and Bolingbroke in a production from John Barton at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre: thirty years later this was still a standard by which performances were being judged.

Collingswood is also home to a growing theater scene, with the Collingswood Community Theatre and the Collingswood Shakespeare Company offering performances throughout the year.

In the summertime, the castle is home to numerous events including performances of Shakespeare.

Howard left behind just two Shakespeare performances, the first, recorded in the 1960s, was as Petruchio opposite Margaret Leighton's Kate in Caedmon Records ' complete recording of The Taming of the Shrew ; the second was in the title role of King Lear for the BBC World Service in 1986.

The new buildings attracted 18, 000 visitors within the first week and received a positive media response both upon opening, and following the first full Shakespeare performances.

There have been theatrical performances in Stratford-upon-Avon since at least Shakespeare ’ s day, though the first recorded performance of a play by Shakespeare himself was in 1748 when Parson Joseph Greene, master of Stratford grammar school, organised a charitable production to fund the restoration of Shakespeare's funerary monument.

Her Royal Shakespeare Company performances are:

His career included many stage performances, including with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and a well acclaimed turn as the twin brothers in Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon.

Abraham has focused on stage work throughout his career, giving notable performances as Pozzo in Mike Nichols's production of Waiting for Godot, Malvolio in Twelfth Night for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, for the Off Broadway Theatre For A New Audience ( TFANA ) in March 2007, which was performed at the Duke Theatre in New York and also at The Swan Theatre, part of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Hardwicke's theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw, and his film work included leading roles in a number of adapted literary classics.

Following this, the BBC broadcast an abridged version of the play in 1963, with complete performances taking place in Los Angeles in 1986 ( as part of a season of Shakespeare Apocrypha ) and Mold in 1987.

* Royal Shakespeare Company photos and information relating to performances and background of The Merry Wives of Windsor through the years

* 5 – 7 September-English Actor-manager David Garrick stages a Shakespeare Jubilee festival in Stratford-upon-Avon, with no performances of Shakespeare's works.

Since 1959 the courtyard and its balcony have been the setting for performances of the plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the Shakespeare at The George Trust.