Tulane Shakespeare Festival
Tulane University 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
Founded in 1993 by a handful of Tulane Faculty members, the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane has become one of the most significant theatre events in the Gulf South. This season the festival is returning to bring Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet to the Lupin Theater stage this summer, as well as performances of The Taming of the Shrew ( 7:30 pm on June 13) and Richard III (July 19 at 7:30 pm) at the festival's Reading Series events, and the theatre/improv event produced with the NOLA Project "By Any Scenes Necessary" featuring scriptless recreations of Shakespeare's The Tempest on June 21 at 7:30 pm. For times, tickets, and other details, visit neworleansshakespeare.org.