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Aug 31

Text Dive: Romeo and Juliet

Summit Players Theatre's most recent production was ROMEO AND JULIET, one of William Shakespeare's most famous plays. We brought this tim...

Behind the Scenes at the Wisconsin State Parks

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Aug 28

Behind the Scenes at the Wisconsin State Parks

Summit Players Theatre presents Shakespeare in the Wisconsin state parks every year with the help and collaboration of the Wisconsin Depa...

Wednesdays With Will #18 - Reviewing Summer

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Aug 26

Wednesdays With Will #18 - Reviewing Summer

We've had a great time with you this summer, but all good things must come to an end! Caroline is ready to commemorate our No Bummer Summ...

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Aug 21

Text Dive: Twelfth Night

In the company's fourth season, Summit Players Theatre produced TWELFTH NIGHT, a play full of humor, love and deep reflections on persona...

Wednesdays With Will #17 - Adapting Shakespeare

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Aug 19

Wednesdays With Will #17 - Adapting Shakespeare

When Summit Players Theatre does Shakespeare plays, we don't do them exactly how they were originally done. We change costumes, locations...

The Heroes and Villains of Shakespeare - Digital Workshop

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Aug 17

The Heroes and Villains of Shakespeare - Digital Workshop

Shakespeare's plays are full of interesting characters we love - or love to hate. Heros and villains both play major roles in these stori...

Wednesdays With Will #16 - Outdoor Theatre

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Aug 12

Wednesdays With Will #16 - Outdoor Theatre

Summit Players Theatre performs Shakespeare plays outside for several reasons: It's fun It highlights the important natural resources ava...

Wednesdays With Will #15 - Quartos, Folios, Zines

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Aug 5

Wednesdays With Will #15 - Quartos, Folios, Zines

In Shakespeare's time (and directly after), his plays were published in two primary formats: quartos, small booklets that contained a sin...

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Aug 3

Text Dive: The Comedy of Errors

Mistaken identities and hilarious hijinks abound in Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, Summit Players Theatre's 2017 production. For our...

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Jul 29

Wednesdays With Will #14 - Recipes

Characters in Shakespeare's plays eat and drink a lot of different kinds of dishes. From ale to meat pies, there's plenty of quaffing and...

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Jul 27

Music with Mike

Music is a vital part of Summit Players Theatre's Shakespeare performances! From the song lyrics that Shakespeare himself wrote to the un...

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Jul 22

Wednesdays With Will #13 - Conventions

Shakespeare wasn't the only playwright creating theatre during the Elizabethan period, and a lot of his contemporaries, like Ben Johnson,...

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Jul 20

Making Shakespeare Accessible

Summit Players Theatre's Shakespeare in the State Parks program isn't just about performing Shakespeare, it's about performing accessible...

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Jul 17

Text Dive: As You Like It

All the world's a stage in Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT, which Summit Players Theatre presented in 2016 along with a remount of A MIDSUMM...

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Jul 15

Wednesdays With Will #12 - The Plague

In the early 1600s, Shakespeare, and most of London, faced a situation that many of us can understand today: an outbreak of the plague. T...

The Magic of Shakespeare - Digital Workshop

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Jul 13

The Magic of Shakespeare - Digital Workshop

Shakespeare included a lot of magic in his plays. Witches, wizards, fairies and others play pranks, make mischief and even cause characte...

Wednesdays With Will #11 - Shakespeare's Background

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Jul 8

Wednesdays With Will #11 - Shakespeare's Background

We've talked for weeks about elements of Shakespeare's plays, but who was this Shakespeare guy anyway? This week, we take a deep dive int...

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Jul 6

Text Dive: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare's magical, nature-based comedy, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, is the first play Summit Players Theatre ever produced! In 2015, w...

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Jul 1

Wednesdays With Will #10 - Disguises

Lots of characters in Shakespeare's plays wear disguises for different reasons - to get information, to play tricks or even to go into hi...

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Jun 28

Costuming the Players

With only six actors in every Summit Players Theatre production, it takes a great deal of planning, skill and creative thinking to make e...

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