Don’t miss your opportunity to join the venerable Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival! Locally focused but with an international reach, NDSF returns in full force this coming summer, featuring a new Professional Company staging of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Chris Anthony, alongside a new Touring Company production of All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Scotty Arnold.
The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival features both professional and student talent working alongside each other, and performs annually for thousands of visitors from across the United States, as well as several international regions. The Festival features Broadway and Tony Award-winning actors, and world-class artists from the Cleveland Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, the Old Globe, the Public Theater, Canada’s Stratford Festival, and many others from New York to Los Angeles.
In addition, local adult actors will be invited to audition for roles in this year’s Professional and Touring Companies. “We’re delighted to continue the tradition of casting undergraduates, grad students, recent graduates, and local pros, together with artists from Broadway, Chicago, Los Angeles, and beyond," says Grant Mudge, Ryan Producing Artistic Director of the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival.
PLEASE NOTE: Click here to register for your audition, and for information about roles and audition requirements. Production staff and technical interviews will take place in February. Video auditions by invitation only, please.
Opens January 26!
Actors From The London Stage is back with a brand-new staging of Shakespeare's effervescent romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Performing at Notre Dame's beautiful Washington Hall January 26-28, 2022, and scheduled to tour across the United States through March 2022, Much Ado About Nothing brings the unique AFTLS experience back to the stage at long last.
One of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular comedies.
Exuberant, joyful, and above all ravishingly entertaining, Much Ado About Nothing deftly explores notions of identity, marriage, and communication through the sparring between Benedick and Beatrice, two of Shakespeare’s most gloriously realized characters. With its piquant blend of prickly banter, mistaken identities, and swoon-worthy romance, Much Ado About Nothing is sheer theatrical delight.
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The spring 2022 Actors From The London Stage touring cast of Much Ado About Nothing. Left to right: Chris Donnelly, Katherine Newman, William Donaldson, Annabelle Terry, Tom Richardson. Photo by Robin Savage.