Delaware Shakespeare Festival
Delaware Shakespeare (formerly known as Delaware Shakespeare Festival) is an outdoor Shakespeare festival that takes place during the summer months at Rockwood Park located in the city of Wilmington, Delaware. The mission of the Delaware Shakespeare is to create professional theatre and educational programs in order to further the understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's works for the residents and friends of the State of Delaware.
== Production history ==
Source:
Summer Festival at Archmere Academy2003: A Midsummer Night's Dream
2004: As You Like It
2005: Love's Labour's Lost
Summer Festival at Rockwood Park:2006: Much Ado About Nothing
2007: Richard III
2008: Romeo and Juliet
2009: Twelfth Night
2010: Macbeth
2011: The Winter's Tale
2012: A Midsummer Night's Dream
2013: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
2014: Hamlet
2015: The Taming of the Shrew
2016: The Comedy of Errors
2017: Henry V
2018: Much Ado About Nothing
Community Tour2016: Pericles, Prince of Tyre
2017: As You Like It
2018: The Merchant of Venice
== Education and outreach ==
=== Shakespeare, Then, Now and Always ===
Originally piloted in 2004, the Shakespeare, Then, Now and Always program is an interactive seminar for local high school students. One of the Festival's Shakespearean scholars visits local high school classrooms to work with students on reading, speaking and understanding the works of the Bard.
=== The Bridge to Shakespeare’s Masterpiece ===
Following the performance, a panel of DSF scholars and actors meet with the participants to review the themes of the play, discuss the world of Shakespeare and find connections to the modern world and to their own lives.
== History ==
The Delaware Shakespeare Festival was founded in 2003 by Molly Cahill and Greg Robleto and performed for three years on the grounds of or in the auditorium at Archmere Academy in Claymont. In 2006, the Festival moving to its current outdoor only location in Rockwood Park in Wilmington. In 2011, the Festival began taking productions on tour to other destinations in Delaware, starting with a free showing of the play at The Freeman Stage at Bayside in Fenwick Island.

== External links ==
Official website
Delaware Today magazine
Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia
Sussex Countian newspaper
Greater Wilmington Convention & Visitor's Bureau