Shakespeare in an Elizabethan Playhouse

Thank you to everyone who has been supporting our performances at the Rose Theater at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp!  These performances benefit Blue Lake Public Radio, and give audiences the opportunity to see Shakespeare performed in one of the only reconstructions of an Elizabethan playhouse in the country.

This past summer, we performed The Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar to the largest audiences that we have had in the Rose space.  We are currently planning our 2018 Rose performances, and we have some exciting play titles in mind, which we plan to announce in December.  We are also working on plans to create a Pigeon Creek Scholarship for one high school student to attend the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp as a Shakespeare major.

We hope to see you in the Rose in the summer of 2018!

Thank you so much for your support of our Shakespeare in the Rose series!  In early June, we performed The Merchant of Venice for a crowd that was 15% larger than our audience from 2016.  That means we created that much more revenue to benefit Blue Lake Public Radio, an NPR station that also broadcasts classical music to West Michigan audiences.

On August 26, we will present Julius Caesar at the Rose, also in partnership with Blue Lake Public Radio.  We have an outstanding cast ready to begin rehearsals for this production, and we will be giving away groundling tickets to local students, allowing them the opportunity to see live performance of Shakespeare's plays.

In the future, we hope to expand our performances in the Rose to include more opportunities for secondary and college students to see these performances.  Your support helps us to plan our ongoing Rose performances, contributing to actor stipends, costumes, props, and marketing materials.  We are grateful for your dedication to live theatre in our region!