Theater partners
![Hamlet at Nashville Shakespeare Festival Hamlet at Nashville Shakespeare Festival](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2018/01/Swordfight-Hamlet-Nashville.jpeg?fit=10%2C10)
What's onstage in January
Let’s check in with our theater partners with Shakespeare plays onstage in January, sharing a snapshot of Shakespeare in performance around America.
![Red Velvet at CST Celebrated Stratford Festival performer Dion Johnstone portrays trailblazing African-American actor Ira Aldridge, whose Othello shocked nineteenth-century London, in Chicago Shakespeare’s Red Velvet, directed by Gary Griffin, in the Courtyard Theater, December 1, 2017–January 21, 2018. Photo by Jeff Sciortino.](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/11/CST-Red-Velvet-JeffSciortino.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
Shakespeare onstage in November and December
Every month, we share a snapshot of Shakespeare in performance around America. Let’s check in with our theater partners with Shakespeare plays onstage in November and December.
![Julius Caesar at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Julius Caesar at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/10/Chesapeake-Brutus-Cassius.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
What's onstage at Shakespeare theaters in October
Every month, we share a snapshot of Shakespeare in performance around America. What plays are onstage this month? We check in with our theater partners.
![A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/09/Midsummer-Cincinnati-Shakespeare-Company-2.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
What's onstage at Shakespeare theaters in September
Every month, we check in with our theater partners to share a snapshot of Shakespeare in performance around America.
![San Francisco Shakespeare Festival San Francisco Shakespeare Festival](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/08/Prospero-in-the-ruins-SFShakes.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 35-year history with 35 Shakespeare speeches
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival has been presenting a series of free, short performances of famous Shakespeare speeches at notable San Francisco landmarks to celebrate its 35-year history in the city.
![Hamlet at The Old Globe Hamlet at The Old Globe](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/08/hamlet-old-globe-skull.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
What's onstage at Shakespeare theaters in August
Every month, we share a snapshot of Shakespeare in performance around America. Which plays are opening this month? We check in with our theater partners.
![Paul Michael Sandberg (left) as Egeus, J. Todd Adams as Theseus, Melinda Parrett as Hippolyta, and Melissa Graves as Jane Snout in the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2017 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (Photo by Karl Hugh. Copyright Utah Shakespeare Festival 2017.) Midsummer at Utah Shakespeare Festival 2017](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/07/Midsummer-Utah-Shakespeare-Festival-2017.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
Three Hamlets and a hip-hop Romeo and Juliet: What's onstage at Shakespeare theaters in July
Every month, we share a snapshot of Shakespeare in performance around America. Summertime is high time for free outdoor performances of the classics.
![The Boys, The Boys. Jesse Bhamrah as Romeo, Christian Strange as Mercutio, and Chris Vizzuraga as Benny V in the Q Brothers'](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/07/Boys_I-Heart-Juliet_2017.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
The Q Brothers take on the star-crossed lovers
The Q Brothers are back at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival this summer with I Heart Juliet, a hip-hop adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
![Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/06/Falstaff-Merry-Wives-OSF-2017-1.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
A Falstaff feast
Find Falstaff at Nebraska Shakespeare, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Shakespeare Dallas.
![Robert Sean Leonard as King Richard II Robert Sean Leonard as King Richard II](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/06/KingRichardII-OldGlobe-e1497300474440.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
Robert Sean Leonard as Richard II: What's onstage at Shakespeare theaters in June
Experience a snapshot of Shakespeare in performance around America, from a female Hamlet in Colorado to Robert Sean Leonard as Richard II in San Diego.
![The-Winters-Tale-Shakespeare-Festival-St-Louis The Winter's Tale at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/06/The-Winters-Tale-Shakespeare-Festival-St-Louis.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
A Shakespeare tale for winter, told in summer
The Winter’s Tale is onstage this summer at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, African-American Shakespeare Company, and Nashville Shakespeare Festival.
![Hamlet Iran](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/05/Hamlet-Iran.png?fit=10%2C10)
An Iranian Hamlet
Arian Moayed is an Iranian Hamlet who straddles the line between East and West in a new dual-language production from Waterwell in New York.