This year’s theme — TEENS MAKING SCENES — focuses on how younger generations act, talk, feel, and treat each other in Shakespeare’s plays.
Join Season 13 of our SHAKESPEARE BOOK CLUB now through June 2027. All are welcome on Zoom or in person on the first Monday of each month.
The 2026 greater hartford shakespeare festival is over, but the plans for 2027 are just beginning!
STAY TUNED FOR NEWS ABOUT THE PLAYS, DATES, & DETAILS!
Did you love the 35th Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival? You can play a “role” in making 2027 even bigger!
Do our Festival performers make your summer? Support our Capital Classics Artists Fund.
The Capital Classics Artists Fund provides competitive payments to approximately 50 CT-based performers, directors, musicians, stage managers, designers, choreographers, and technicians hired for our Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival.
A gift of any amount will help us fulfill our mission of “providing job opportunities to Connecticut’s professional theatre artists” and keeping Connecticut’s talent in state.
Click here to support our Capital Classics Artists Fund.
We are always looking committed volunteers who are passionate about our Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival and want to assist our board of directors with projects like marketing, sponsorships, events, and more.
Give the gift of Shakespeare!
Coming soon…for holiday purchases.
thank you for making 35 years of the greater hartford shakespeare festival such a celebration!
Breaking our 1-day attendance record!
Help us continue to stage two Shakespeare plays in 2027!
Since 1991, we have enriched the Greater Hartford region with classical theatrical entertainment. As the home of the Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival, we look forward to continuing our tradition of quality.
