Happy Birthday, Will!

Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks presents a whole lot of Will for the 457th celebration! It’s WEEK OF WILL: IN THE WORKS. Read on for the season announcement…

All festivities are delivered via social media and YouTube during WEEK OF WILL 2021, the seventh annual celebration of Shakespeare’s life and works produced by Pittsburgh’s 17-year-old outdoor theatre company and community partners. “Once more, Shakespeare’s timeless words bring us together,” says Jennifer Tober, PSIP founder and artistic director. “As we move through PSIP’s 17th season, we continue to share the joy of experiencing each other’s company, talent, and laughter in our online artistic community – and now Week of Will warms up for our return to our beautiful city parks.”

“Get ready for our September 2021 all-female Hamlet, directed by Karen June Gilmer, and presented in Frick Park, Highland Park, Schenley Plaza, and the Northpark Boathouse Lawn,” says Tober.

Further WOW details and links appear on the PSIP Facebook, YouTube Channel (where you can subscribe), and website. Event updates and some surprises will be added throughout Week of Will, running through Saturday, May 1.

YOUR DONATIONS support this free week of events and PSIP’s next live production in September 2021 for which admission is free for all. Donations are accepted at:
http://pittsburghshakespeare.com/donate.html

WEEK OF WILL: IN THE WORKS events features streaming events on YouTube following their debut.

Saturday, April 24: Mrs Shakespeare’s annual tribute marks Shakespeare’s 457th Birthday at the Shakespeare statue in Oakland, today from 12 noon to 12:30 pm and live on Facebook. Join actor and writer Yvonne Hudson who portrays Will’s wife, Anne Hathaway Shakespeare.

Saturday, April 24 – Shakespeare Unscripted – Vibes of March
Streaming on YouTube starting at 6 pm
The hilarity of our first improv Shakespeare play is back! PSIP company members Jason A. Young (emcee), Tracey D. Turner, Aaron Crutchfield, Kip Soteres, and Jennifer Tober create a Shakespearesque play. Driven by input from the audience via Twitch, it’s a History Play gone terribly awry. You will be amazed and know not what to say! And you may watch it again and again…
Watch on YouTube anytime

Sunday, April 25: Fighting Words! – Get the inside story on how PSIP’s spinetingling stage fights happen. Tonya Lynn, longtime PSIP actor and resident fight director, is interviewed by Alan Irvine. Our YouTube feature goes live at 4 pm and adds to the super content to explore our PSIP YouTube channel. Subscribe now.
Eclectic Mayhem photo by Luke Bruehlman

Sunday, April 25 – LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
Streaming again for all starting at 6 pm
Once more making history, PSIP encores its first winter show and its second digital production, LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST. Replete with gender-bending and non-traditional casting of eight versatile actors, streaming, this romantic comedy is staged by Irene Alby and Cornel Gabara. Their YouTube production goes live at 6 pm, free for all, and extends their fundraising for this 17th Season. Link to watch and have your popcorn ready

Lamar Cheston in Henry V.

Thursday, April 29: Shakespeare Throwback Thursday – Recall your favorite PSIP memories and as PSIP shares some of our tales and favorite moments in the Parks ad online. On Facebook all day long.

Friday, April 30: Reconciliation in The Tempest
Streaming on YouTube starting at 10 am
Aaron Crutchfield, PSIP board member and regional actor, performs Prospero’s soliloquy from Act 5, scene 1, a moment that speaks to us today in its consideration of justice, vengeance, and forgiveness. Subscribe to the PSIP YouTube Channel.

Running now on YouTube Puppets on the Small Stage
Puppets offer a compact, versatile way for students to gain the benefits of staging Shakespeare. PSIP and Catherine Aceto, board member and novice puppeteer, invite you to investigate the joy of Shakespeare done with puppets through four short puppet films (appearing here by permission) followed by a tutorial on making simple marionettes from blue grocery-store recycling bags.
YouTube now

Saturday, May 1: The New Renaissance Theatre Company presents Where Art They Now?
Streaming on YouTube starting at 10 am.
Join your host, Bottom the Weaver, and some of your favorite Shakespearean characters as PSIP revisits some interviews from this past year of lockdown. How are Othello and Desdemona holding up? Has Mistress Quickly been able to cope with restrictions on restaurants and bars? What about the Macs? This look back at the year through the lens of your favorite retrospective, Where Art They Now? is brought to you by our guest artists The New Renaissance Theatre Company, available to all on their YouTube page.

Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks celebrates its 17th Season in 2021, moving from a year of digital productions back to live performance in area parks.HAMLET will be presented each weekend in September, continuing the company’s tradition of free admission for all.

For more info visit:  https://pittsburghshakespeare.com/

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