Alabama Shakespeare Festival Announces 2024-25 Season
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival has released its lineup for its 53rd season.
Running from September 2024 to August 2025, organizers say audiences will have the opportunity to see stories that probe humanity’s courage, conscience and conviction.
Opening the season is Ken Ludwig’s sentimental, biographical Dear Jack, Dear Louise. Dildine’s full-scale adaptation of A Christmas Carol takes over the Festival Stage in a triumphant celebration of the holiday season for the whole family.
In the new year, organizers say we will then face fear and change with love and humor in The Watsons Go To Birmingham — 1963. Spring brings the comic swashbuckling of Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood in a mini-rep with William Shakespeare’s most puzzling tragedy, Hamlet.
From the 2023 Southern Writers Festival, and the first of ASF’s New Southern Canon, emerges the world premiere of Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ Kudzu Calling. The season concludes with the RSC’s musical and MGM film-like adaptation of The Wizard of Oz on the Festival Stage.
ASF says it will continue opportunities with the community to further engage with theatre through SchoolFest student matinees, ASF insights, Barb Talks and community discussions around themes in its productions.
Fall Festival of Shakespeare returns for its third season in partnership with Montgomery Public Schools where students will work with professionals in the theater community to produce works by Shakespeare that they will perform on the Octagon stage.
The Southern Writers Festival of New Plays will enter its 24th year of developing new works about the South, with public readings on June 15, 2024, in conjunction with the world premiere of Zelda In the Backyard, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s play developed through the 2022 festival.
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