Friends and Affiliates...

"Celebrating its Tenth Anniversary Season, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival is the region’s home for professional classical theatre and exciting educational programs. In 2003, the Festival signed a Small Professional Theatre contract with Actors’ Equity to become Baltimore City’s third resident professional theatre company. In addition to presenting exceptional productions outdoors each summer at the Meadow at Evergreen House, the Festival also produces at its new indoor home at St. Mary’s Outreach Center on Roland Avenue in Hampden."

"The Baltimore Theatre Alliance is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to supporting and promoting theater in the greater Baltimore area."

"The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is a collection of local artists with diverse talents ands skills who all share the common ideas that live performances of Shakespeare's play are an important part of our community's cultural life and that through hard work and diligence, we can together create outstanding live performances of great plays that will be approachable, meaningful, and entertaining to audiences."

"The mission of The Shakespeare Theatre is to become the nation’s leading force in producing and preserving the highest quality of classic theatre. The theatre endeavors to strengthen the tradition of classic theatre in America through productions that reflect its current world."

"The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Its history is intrinsically linked to that of its founders, Henry Clay Folger and his wife, Emily Jordan Folger, who established the Library in 1932 as a gift to the American people. A magnet for scholars from around the globe, the Folger is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, as well as magnificent collections of other rare Renaissance books and manuscripts on all disciplines—history and politics, theology and exploration, law and the arts."

"One of the world’s best-known theatre ensembles, the Royal Shakespeare Company focuses on works by Shakespeare, other renaissance dramatists and contemporary writers. The RSC’s ensemble nature allows audiences to follow the company’s actors in a number of repertoire productions while providing an expert training environment for its actors, directors and theatre artists."