Proposals for Shakespeare in American Communities Program

Shakespeare in American Communities is a national theater program of the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with Arts Midwest, that brings performances and related educational activities to audiences across the country. The program supports high-quality, professional productions of Shakespeare’s plays and related educational activities for middle- and high-school students in underserved schools across the United States.

A hundred and eight theater companies across the United States have taken part in Shakespeare in American Communities since the program’s inception in 2003. Selected companies have presented 33 of Shakespeare’s 37 plays. To date, the program has supported 11,000 performances and more than 40,000 related educational activities at more than 9,800 schools in 4,200 communities in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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