Georgia Shakespeare

Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia Shakespeare is a professional League of Resident Theatres company that combines some of Atlanta's most exciting and high-quality professional productions with one of Georgia's most innovative education programs. The company has repeatedly been recognized for its quality and vitality. Georgia Shakespeare creates thoughtful, bold, and passionate interpretations of a diverse body of work rooted in Shakespeare and branching out to embrace the best writers and ideas of all eras. On the stage and through educational programming, the company strives to entertain, to ignite the imagination, and to creatively explore the journey of the human spirit. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution hails Georgia Shakespeare as “one of the city's best theater destinations,” and the Wall Street Journal praised the 2006 production of Twelfth Night as “an absolute knockout.” In addition to its excellence on the stage, Georgia Shakespeare is recognized for its excellence in the classroom; the theater offers more than 12 different education programs that reach across the state of Georgia and into surrounding states. The Metropolitan Arts and Business Council in 2002 recognized the company's Shakespeare for Students program as an Outstanding Arts Education Program. In 2003 and 2004, the Georgia Council for the Arts recognized Georgia Shakespeare's longtime role as a leading statewide and regional educator by naming its education and outreach program as being among the best arts programs in the state.

In 2008, with support received from Shakespeare for a New Generation, Georgia Shakespeare will tour Romeo and Juliet. They will work with schools in underserved areas of middle, southeastern, and northeastern Georgia, as well as western North Carolina. This support will allow Georgia Shakespeare to offer 20 performances to a minimum of 10 schools in those underserved areas with accompanying workshops—all at no cost to the schools, which will be selected in conjunction with educators in the region. Additionally, Georgia Shakespeare will conduct regional teacher training workshops as part of the project.

http://www.gashakespeare.org/