36-hour Shakespeare-a-thon!

7am-8am: Grand Reveal: Experience our newly renovated space! 

*8am-9am: Parts Making A Whole: Montage of staff and actors–past and present–sharing stories and text.

*9am-10am: Past and Present Make a Future: Highlights from our most recent programming.

10am-12pm: Poetry Workshop: Experience our newest interactive! 

12pm-1pm: Shakespeare Interactive Workshops: Participate in the workshop that has taken CT by storm since 1996

1pm-2pm:Neighborhoods!: Enjoy some of our favorite scenes from our Neighborhoods! script. Then share your own story of Waterbury.

2pm-3pm: Perspectives! Challenge your creativity with sizes and angles by recreating the same image with Legos, Play-Doh, and more.

3pm-4pm: Mythology: Saturday Acting Intensives Students perform from our collection of mythology scenes

4pm-5pm: Art Gallery (MaryAnn Kochanowski): Explore MaryAnn’s creative journey through 'Anxiously Abstract.' Visit website: https://sites.google.com/view/anxiouslyabstract/home

5pm-6pm:Cyril the Sorcerer: Once upon a River, a fairytale environmental magic show.

6pm-7pm:Magic School: Waterbury’s Society of Young Magicians reveals the secrets of magic for ages 7-17.

7pm-9pm: Play Festival (writing): Draw a prompt from a hat and write using objects in the studio for inspiration. 

9pm-11pm: Play Festival (rehearsal): Rehearse the plays created in the previous hour.

11pm-12pm: Play Festival (performance): New pieces created in under two hours ready for their debut!

12am-4am: Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Read. Every. Single. One. 

+4am-6am: US Autism Association: Streaming video recordings of The Dramatic Arts with Elaine Hall; Voices Across the Spectrum: Mickey Rowe, Seamus Higgins, and Henry Durham

*6am-7am: We’re All In This Together: Montage of our Neighborhoods program: a community collaboration since 2013.

7am-9am: Board of Directors Hour: “Thank you” to our Board of Directors for all the time and commitment to the mission.

+9am-11am: US Autism Association Video presentation of Behind the Scenes: Ron Zimmerman in conversation with Mickey Rowe; Fearlessly Different: From Special Education to Broadway’s Biggest Stage

11am-12pm: Mathnasium: Solve a Rubix Cube. Play Connect Four. Sign up your child for math tutoring. All courtesy of our friends at Mathnasium on West Main Street

12pm-2pm: Plays by David Sirois: Series of short plays with Q&A afterward.

2pm-3pm: Writing Workshop: Share a work in progress, discuss with fellow writers, and hear it read aloud by actors. 

3pm-4pm: Caesar Alternate Endings: Acting students from our winter term perform scenes from Julius Caesar followed by improv and discussions exploring different choices and outcomes.

4pm-5pm:Hamlet: Spring Acting Intensives students present their final performance.

**+5pm-6pm: Shakespeare in the Litchfield Hills: Friends of Shakespeare in the Litchfield Hills discuss upcoming events! Live both in our Waterbury studio and Washington's Ideas Depot!

**+6pm-7pm: Final Countdown of Give Local 2025 From two locations: Waterbury& Washington Depot!

*Streaming to Facebook live 

+Viewing over Zoom

**Double location:
 Waterbury Studio AND Ideas Depot
 11 Bryan Hall Plaza, Washington Depot