[NEohioPAL] Ohio Shakespeare Festival opens 2016 Summer Season

[Nancy Cates via NEohioPAL]

Ohio Shakespeare Festival

1-888-71-TICKETS

 <http://www.ohioshakespearefestival.com> www.ohioshakespearefestival.com

 

For Immediate Release

 

Magicals, Murderers, and Merry Men abound

in Ohio Shakespeare Festival's 2016 Summer Season

The Tempest, Robin Hood: an Adventure with Music, and Macbeth

 

"If you have ever wished that a Shakespeare production could somehow be
outfitted with annotations and footnotes to help you understand what's going
on at every moment, there's a much easier and more enjoyable alternative.
Just sit in the audience while the Ohio Shakespeare Festival is performing."
(Cleveland Scene Magazine)

 

Ohio Shakespeare Festival, performing for a fifteenth summer at beautiful
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron, will open its 2016 Season with William
Shakespeare's magical comedy The Tempest.  Following will come Robin Hood:
an Adventure with Music, a swashbuckling adventure to kick off OSF's Family
Theatre programming, and the summer will end with the wicked deeds of one of
Shakespeare's greatest villains, Macbeth.

 

The Tempest will preview on July 1, open July 2 and run through July 17.
Robin Hood: an Adventure with Music will perform one weekend only, July 21
to 24, and Macbeth will preview on August 5, open August 6, and run through
August 21.  Performances are Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at
8 pm.  The two Shakespeare plays are preceded at 7:30 pm by our popular
"Greenshow" of songs, dances, swordfights and parodies.  Stan Hywet's
grounds open at 6 pm all evenings for picnicking in a wide variety of scenic
locations, and concessions are available for purchase, including sandwiches,
snacks, wines, and microbrews. 

 

The Tempest will feature OSF Founding Artistic Director Terry Burgler at the
wizard Prospero, with Chloe Smith as his beautiful daughter Miranda, Tess
Burgler as his spirit servant Ariel, and Geoff Knox as the monster Caliban.
Longtime Company members David McNees, Mark Stoffer, Joe Pine, Ryan Zarecki,
Scott Campbell, and Jason Leupold play a few of the stranded sea-farers on
Prospero's magical, spirit-filled island. 

 

Robin Hood: an Adventure with Music will perform next, script by Terry
Burgler, with original music and lyrics by Scott Campbell.  Designed to
appeal to all ages, OSF's first Family Theatre offering tells a new
adventure of the famous bandit of Sherwood Forest and his Merry Men.
Adventure, romance, swordplay and tights abound in this rollicking comedy
fit for the entire family.  Sir Robin of Locksley, named "Robin Hood" by his
detractors, is played by Andrew Cruse, with Tess Burgler as his Maid Marian,
and David McNees as the Sheriff of Nottingham.  

 

Macbeth will complete OSF's season, featuring Bernard Bygott and Lara
Mielcarek, last season's Benedick and Beatrice, as the murderous couple
determined to become the King and Queen of ancient Scotland.  Geoff Knox is
featured as Macduff, Joe Pine as Malcolm, and Ryan Zarecki as Banquo. 

 

In order to make live performances of Shakespeare accessible to all budgets,
OSF is offering two evenings with ticketing supported by OSF, the Corbin
Foundation, and the Akron Community Foundation.  The Tempest will have a
"Pay what you Will(iam Shakespeare)" performance on Thursday, July 7, and
Macbeth will have a performance free for all students (with ID) on Thursday,
August 11.  ("Pay what you will" and free student tickets are available at
the gate only.)

 

Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens is located at 714 N. Portage Path in Akron, and
OSF's plays are staged at "the Lagoon," rain or shine.  Tickets are $33 for
reserved seating (the first 100 seats in the center, closest to the stage),
or $28 for open seating.  Student tickets are $15 in open seating, every
performance. Reservations may be made any time through OSF's web site at
<http://www.ohioshakespearefestival.com> www.ohioshakespearefestival.com, or
by calling the box office at 1-888-71-TICKETS daily from 9am to 9pm, or 12pm
to 5pm, weekends.

 

"Burgler and his band of actors perform Shakespeare for the sheer joy of it.
We audience members are fortunate to partake in such a gorgeous treat."
(Akron Beacon Journal)

 

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