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Join Us for Our 2007 Season All's
Well That Ends Well
June
21st through July 15th Othello
July 26th through August 19th
Performances are at 7 :30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday Shakespeare
in Delaware Park (SDP) has been a Buffalo summer tradition since 1976. It is the
country's second most successful outdoor Shakespeare festival in terms of audience,
attracting an average of 50,000 patrons each summer. Only New York City draws
more attendance for a free Shakespeare festival. Our
festival takes place in a historic park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, father
of landscape architecture, and the nation's foremost parkmaker. Behind the Park's
rose garden stands our grand Tudor-Style stage on a sweeping hill of green. In
this beautiful setting under the stars, Shakepeare's stories live on to explore
the truths of the human heart; tragedy, jealousy, foolishness, passion, laughter,
and love. Shakespeare
in Delaware Park, Inc. is a non-profit organization originally founded in 1976
by Saul Elkin. It was designed to create a summer festival in which theater students
would receive high quality professional training in all aspects of theatre, but
with a focus on classical material. The
festival has since grown, and has now played to well over a million people. It
performs two plays each summer; one traditional style, one in an updated fashion.
The
festival continues its tradition of professional FREE public theatre, and maintains
its focus of theatre education as well. The founding principle was, and remains,
to create a free public festival that would attract the young, the senior audience,
the experienced theater goer, as well as those for whom live Shakespeare on stage
might be a new experience. | 
