We've had a great time with you this summer, but all good things must come to an end! Caroline is ready to commemorate our No Bummer...

When Summit Players Theatre does Shakespeare plays, we don't do them exactly how they were originally done. We change costumes,...

Summit Players Theatre performs Shakespeare plays outside for several reasons: It's fun It highlights the important natural resources...

In Shakespeare's time (and directly after), his plays were published in two primary formats: quartos, small booklets that contained a...

Characters in Shakespeare's plays eat and drink a lot of different kinds of dishes. From ale to meat pies, there's plenty of quaffing and...

Shakespeare wasn't the only playwright creating theatre during the Elizabethan period, and a lot of his contemporaries, like Ben Johnson,...

In the early 1600s, Shakespeare, and most of London, faced a situation that many of us can understand today: an outbreak of the plague....

We've talked for weeks about elements of Shakespeare's plays, but who was this Shakespeare guy anyway? This week, we take a deep dive...

Lots of characters in Shakespeare's plays wear disguises for different reasons - to get information, to play tricks or even to go into...

Some people say that Shakespeare took ideas from other authors and rewrote them as his plays, and they're not entirely wrong!...

Characters in Shakespeare's plays either spoke in verse, a formal, poetic type of speech used for high emotions, high status and...

The great outdoors are also a great place to do Shakespeare, which is why we do all of our shows in the Wisconsin State Parks. The...

The plays that Shakespeare wrote have very high stakes and big emotions - together, we say the plays have heightened circumstances. This...

Tragedies are one of the three big categories of plays that Shakespeare wrote. They're sad stories that often end in the death of many...

Comedies are one of the three big categories of plays that Shakespeare wrote. They feature love, marriage, silly jesters and lots of...

Histories are one of the three big categories of plays that Shakespeare wrote, and they're full of... well, history! Specifically, the...

Shakespeare's plays are chock-full of action, and bringing that action to life on stage safely requires the use of stage combat! Follow...

We know that Shakespeare was a playwright, and even that he acted in some of his own plays, but did you know that he was a poet too?...