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Causes: Arts & Culture, Theater
Mission: With the plays of william shakespeare at its core, seattle shakespeare engages audiences, artists and the community through the vitality, immediacy and intimacy of live performance and dynamic outreach programs.
Programs: During its 2016-17 season, the seattle shakespeare produced mainstage professional productions of classic plays such as the winter's tale, medea, bring down the house and a midsummer night's dream. Low priced student matinees and senior citizen discounts were offered for all these shows. Overall seattle shakespeare company served more than 50,000 people from across washington state in all its program services.
the organization offers multiple education programs relating to the works of william shakespeare including classes, workshops, summer camps and in-school residencies.
seattle shakespeare operates traveling productions of plays to schools and communities throughout the state of washington, making shakespeare productions available to students and other audience members who reside in areas of the state that have limited access to professional theatre performances. The organization also produces free performances of shakespeare classic plays in seattle area parks during july & august.