Optimist Theatre Announces 2024 Summer Shakespeare Series
“Optimist Presents: Shakespeare in the City” Expands Summer Offerings
Mar 11th, 2024
Shakespeare in the Park returns to the Marcus Center’s Peck Pavilion for the 2018 Production of “King Lear,” Headlined by Jim Pickering
The tragedy will play on three weekends: July 5-8, 12-15 and 19-21, with a weekday matinee on July 17.
Apr 30th, 2018
Optimist Theatre Announces Cast of Free Shakespeare in the Park’s “Much Ado About Nothing”
The three-weekend run will feature Kelley Faulkner, Todd Denning, Michael Stebbins, Jonathan Wainwright and Jim Pickering.
May 25th, 2017
Announcing the cast of free Shakespeare in the Park’s “Julius Caesar”
William Shakespeare’s tragedy will be performed twelve times over three weekends, with evening performances (8 p.m. curtain) August 4-7, 11-13 and 18-21, and a 10 a.m. matinee on Sunday, August 14.
Jul 11th, 2016
Optimist Theatre to Present 2015 Shakespeare in the Park Production, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Optimist Theatre announces this July’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Mar 3rd, 2015
Optimist Theatre to Present 2015 Shakespeare in the Park Production, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Optimist’s staging of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be set in 1967 during the Summer of Love
Feb 19th, 2015
Optimist Theatre Receives 2014-2015 Wisconsin Humanities Council Grant
Optimist Theatre has been selected to receive a grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council for 2014-2015.
Aug 14th, 2014
