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June Newsletter
Matching Appeal • Company Stories • Camp Will Goes Virtual • New Sign! Our $25,000 Spring Matching Appeal is Near Its Goal! “I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.” – William Shakespeare Shakespeare may not have coined the phrase, “Timing is everything,” but we’re betting he thought […]
Door Shakespeare Says Good-bye to 2020 Season
The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light… — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet We wanted nothing more than to celebrate Door Shakespeare’s 25th Anniversary Summer Season in style, and we brought together an amazing company in order to do just that. Three wonderful productions (The […]
April 2020 Newsletter
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows… We take great joy in choosing the season, the directors and designers, the actors and the interns, and in making preparations for Camp Will and Door Shakespeare’s Annual Gala. It brings us joy because we do it with you in mind. At the same […]
Update on the Coronavirus
To Door Shakespeare friends, patrons, donors, and fellow artists, As the world continues to move forward in this most challenging and uncertain time, Door Shakespeare would like to share with you where we are as we contend with the COVID-19/Coronavirus. Door Shakespeare’s 25th anniversary summer season is in the works, with our first performance scheduled […]
Door Shakespeare announces new home for 2020
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, Door Shakespeare will be celebrating its 25 th anniversary year in a home of its own. In late November, Door Shakespeare took possession of the building at 10038 Hwy 57 in the Town of Liberty Grove. Perhaps best known as the original site of Celeste Wegman Interiors, […]
Holidays on Ice Reception
We invite you to come for the satire, stay for the sweets! Let the merrymaking begin as Door Shakespeare’s Producing Artistic Director, Michael Stebbins, reads selected essays from Holidays on Ice, by beloved humorist David Sedaris. Both thoughtful and playful, Sedaris’s stories are the perfect antidote to the craziness holidays can bring out in all […]
The Merry Wives of Windsor review.
A Merry Shakespeare Comedy in Door County BY RUSS BICKERSTAFF, JUL. 08, 2019, 4:51 P.M. Door Shakespeare launches itself into a breezy comedy this summer with a vibrantly witty production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The tiny outdoor theater in a sleepy, little stretch of woods serves as an idyllic, little home for one of Shakespeare’s […]
Russ Bickerstaff of the Milwaukee Shepherd Express reviews Henry V
Role-Switching and Rugged Depth in ‘Henry V’ BY RUSS BICKERSTAFF, JUL. 08, 2019, 12:55 P.M. Frequent Milwaukee theater talent Matt Daniels not only directs Door Shakespeare’s Henry V but also serves as the chorus. Conducting the action passionately as director and presenter, Daniels’ presence conjures a backstage atmosphere onstage of William Shakespeare’s narration-heavy history. Nearly every actor onstage […]
“Fans of Door Shakespeare should not miss this show!” – Review by Carolyn Kane, Peninsula Pulse
By Carolyn Kane, June 28th, 2019 During the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth, William Shakespeare entertained his compatriots with a series of plays about the history of England, including two plays dealing with the sad life and troubled times of King Henry IV. In the process, he created probably the greatest comic character in English literature, […]
Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: Review: ‘Henry V’ stirs the imagination in Baileys Harbor
BAILEYS HARBOR, Wis. (WFRV) Those were the goode olde days. We were brave against all odds. We had our faults, we oddball band of brothers, but we pulled through. Victory! And we couldn’t have done it without goode ol’ Harry. What a guy. What a great leader. Sound like William Shakespeare? Nah. Shakespeare says it better. […]