20th Anniversary Season
Two Shows in Rotating Repertory
The Festival is celebrating our 20th Anniversary season to the hilt and producing Antony and Cleopatra and A Midsummer Night's Dream, June 19 - July 15, 2012. The two productions will run for four weeks in Southmoreland Park playing on alternate evenings. Thanks to the financial support of our entire community the Festival had a successful summer last year with Macbeth drawing more than 5,000 more audience members with donations in the park increased significantly. We had no rain outs for the first time in our history. Thanks to our audience, fans and generous friends, the Festival was sustained and can now return to this two-show repertory season for this important anniversary year. This will be the first time the Festival has produced Antony and Cleopatra; A Midsummer Night's Dream will fill the park with laughter as we recreate this audience favorite. With support from a generous challenge grant provided by the John C. Griswold Foundation the Festival asks our audience to match the challenge and make our 20th year the most successful ever.
Please renew your membership or become a FAN today!
How do you turn $10 into $20,000?
Donate $10 and it will be matched - $10 x 2 = $20 for the 20th
The Festival has received a $10,000 donation to be matched by donations from our community. And, if you and 999 other donors give $10 the Festival will receive a total of $20,000 for our 20th season. Our Festival is proud to be part of this community and we look forward to welcoming all of you to the green grass and tall shade trees of Southmoreland Park for our two-show anniversary season. Please take time today to make it all possible -- your $10 will become $20,000. Click here to donate online OR text SHAKES to 52000 to donate NOW. Or call 816.531.7728 to speak to a live operator. We're more than 1/2 of the way toward our goal -- donate today to help us make the match!
Be a FAN
Support the Festival and be part of the community
It's our 20th season and The Festival relies upon our FANS to provide much needed support for our two productions. Your FAN membership will be matched by a generous donation from the John C. Griswold Foundation.
FAN MEMBERSHIP LEVELS:
$100 2 reserved seats
$150 2 reserved seats and 1 parking pass
$250 4 reserved seats and 1 parking pass
$500 8 reserved seats and 2 parking passes
all reserved seats good for one show throughout the 2012 season
FANS may purchase additional reserved seats for the second show at half price.
Please renew your FAN membership or join as a FAN TODAY. Use "ADDITIONAL COMMENTS" to tell us what date(s) you want to attend and if you want additional seats at half price. You may 816.531.7728 to talk to an operator. Or send in your renewal with a check to: 3619 Broadway, Suite 2, Kansas City, MO 64111. Join today and be part of our Festival community!
Reserved Seats for 2012 performances
May 23 - phone lines will be open
It's almost time for the Festival to start! There are three options for seating in Southmoreland Park including:
- bring your own blankets or chairs (FREE)
- rent a chair for $5 at the Festival to place in the non-reserved areas
- purchase reserved chair or blanket area seating for $25.
Please call the Festival office at 816.531.7728 beginning May 23 to reserve your seats. If you are a Festival FAN or sponsor you may call on that day and reserve your seats for both shows. We look forward to speaking with you about the season! Your seat in the grass is w a i t i n g. . .
Cast for the Festival's 2012 season
One cast - Two Productions
The Festival's 2012 season includes TWO productions; Antony and Cleopatra with John Rensenhouse as Antony and Kim Martin-Cotten playing Cleopatra and A Midsummer Night's Dream which will perform every other night in rotating repertory, June 19 - July 15.
John Rensenhouse
Kim Martin-Cotten
Along with John and Kim, the talented company of actors who make up the shared cast includes: Bruce Roach, David Fritts, Matthew Rapport, Cinnamon Schultz, Jan Rogge, Jason Chanos, Jacques Roy and Robert Gibby Brand as well as TJ Chasteen, Emily Peterson, Greg Brostrom, Andrea Geurtsen, Daniel Fredrick, Phillip Shinn, Ben Auxier, Logan Black, and J. Will Fritz. These adults will share the stage with eleven youth actors, some of whom will be in both plays. For a full actor/character listing click here.
Team Shakespeare Performs Romeo and Juliet!
Coming Soon!
The Festival's teen performance company, Team Shakespeare, will perform Romeo and Juliet, May 25, 26 and 27 at E.H. Young RIverfront Park in Riverside, Missouri. Performances are at 7:00 p.m. each night and admission is FREE! Bring blankets to sit on the lawn overlooking the stage on the shores of the river and enjoy Shakespeare's beloved tragedy in an hour and thirty minute long version appropriate for audiences of all ages.
Team Shakespeare features more than 28 super talented students from throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area who have trained for the past year in the Festival's Shakespeare Studio program. Many are graduates of the Festival's summer Camp Shakespeare.
E. H. Young RIverfront Park is a public city park located on the shores of the Missour River, the address is 1001 Argosy Pkwy. More information can be found at http://www.riversidemo.com/
Cajun Cabin, http://cajuncabin.org will be at the event on Friday and Saturday night selling delicious cajun food to accompy our New Orleans theme!
