The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane

New Orleans, Louisiana

Founded in 1993, The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane is a professional theatre company in residence at Tulane University. Its dual mission is to educate and to entertain, with a focus on the works of William Shakespeare. The company produces text-based, actor-centered, visceral productions of Shakespeare's plays each season, as well as arts-in-education programming, serving the New Orleans and southern Gulf State region. Of equal importance to The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane is its mission to educate by awakening students to the power of language, literacy, and the arts. In pursuit of this mission, it offers a three-part educational program called Shakespeare Alive!, which reaches middle- and high-school students and teachers from public, private, and parochial schools across fourteen parishes in Louisiana.

As part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane will mount a production of The Comedy of Errors, which will be staged in the Dixon Hall Theatre on the campus of Tulane University and presented in conjunction with Actors' Equity Association. Following each performance, students will participate in a talkback session with the actors and director. Additionally, the festival will provide each school with a study guide that is specific to the play, and the education coordinator will visit each school to conduct a post-performance workshop for students in which they'll discuss the play and engage in activities to get the students on their feet and speaking the text.

Visit them at: www.neworleansshakespeare.com