This program presents free outdoor performances of classic theater in partnership with the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center on the historic Guilford Green and the Old Saybrook Green. The summer production of for 2010 is Twelfth Night, scheduled for August 4 - 8 at 7:30pm in Guilford and August 11 at 9pm, August 12, 14, 15 at 8pm in Old Saybrook.Attendees are encouraged to bring picnic dinners, blankets & chairs and enjoy 'theater under the stars.' The collaboration between the Shoreline Arts Alliance and CT Free Shakespeare to present this program will be marking its 5th anniversary in the summer of 2010.

Saluda Camp as Titania, 2009

Starship Dance Theater performing
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Summer 2009

Inaugurated in 2002 to great acclaim, the Shoreline Arts Alliance has presented Macbeth, The Tempest, Richard III and Romeo & Juliet performed by the Elm Shakespeare Company of New Haven and in 2006 we introduced Connecticut Free Shakespeare performing Edmond Rostand's classic, Cyrano de Bergerac followed by a production of Love's Labour's Lost in 2007, Much Ado About Nothing in 2008 and A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2009. 2010 marks a special year as a new venue has been added to the Shakespeare on the Shoreline presentation with an additional four nights of performances on the Old Saybrook Town Green in collaboration with the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center.

2010 sponsors to date:
Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, Guilford Savings Bank, Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation, Inc., George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation, Norma Terris-Albert D. Firestone Foundation, Christine E. Moser Foundation, Sennheiser Electronic Corporation, Town of Guilford, Town of Old Saybrook, Yale-New Haven Hospital,Guilford Courier & The Source, Lyme Times and WTNH.

We also wish to express our sincere thanks to our playbill advertisers and our ShakesPEERS. It is the generous support of individuals, foundations, corporations and local businesses that enable us to continue to bring these outstanding programs to our region.




Photo ID: Cyrano de Bergerac, 2006 (left); Romeo & Juliet, 2005 (right)
Photo Credit: Michael Wilson Morgan (left); Judy Sirotta Rosenthal (right)
Photo Credit: Rebekah Czarnecki - Titania
Photo Credit: Judy Barbosa - Starship Dance Theater