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Shakespeare in Clark Park presents free, community- centered productions of Shakespeare’s plays.

01/15/2026

Announcing our spring class in partnership with The Arts League. Come play with us!- https://mailchi.mp/shakespeareinclarkpark.org/learn-with-us

12/30/2025

One of Shakespeare’s Greatest, Live in Clark Park - https://mailchi.mp/shakespeareinclarkpark.org/end-of-5865214
HAMLET will take over the bowl July 29-August 2, 2026! See you there!

12/19/2025

We’re officially over our midway end of year fundraising goal! Thank you to everyone who has supported us thus far!! It’s not too late to join our community of support. Please consider an end of year gift of any size to help keep theatre accessible in our community!

As promised this milestone comes with an end of year show announcement about next summer’s FREE production!

We’ll be dropping hints and clues leading up to the reveal so stay tuned over the next two weeks!!!

12/02/2025

It’s Giving Tuesday, and we’re ending the year on a high note
🏆 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Outdoor Production
🏆 Metro Philly’s Best Local Theatre Company

Now we’re asking our community to help us carry this momentum into our 20th anniversary season.
We’re working toward a $10,000 year-end goal, and your Giving Tuesday gift brings us one step closer to keeping theatre free, joyful, and accessible in Philly’s parks.

If you believe in Shakespeare for everyone-Give today!

11/20/2025

🎉 We Won! 🎉
Shakespeare in Clark Park has officially been named Metro Philly’s Best Local Theatre Company for 2025 — and it’s all thanks to YOU.

This award celebrates two decades of free theatre in the park, community joy, giant audiences, bold artists, and the magic that happens when a neighborhood gathers under the summer sky.

We’re so proud. We’re so grateful. And we’re just getting started. 💚

If SCP has brought joy to your summer, helped you fall in love with Shakespeare, or made Philly feel more like home — consider supporting our year-end goal to keep this work going.

10/31/2025

From sprites to spirits, kings to clowns we’re celebrating with a look back at some of our favorite costumes that brought the Bard’s worlds (and wardrobes) to life.

Happy Halloween from all of us at SCP ! May your night be full of mischief, magic, and just the right amount of drama. 🎃👻

Swipe for a beary scary finale.

10/27/2025

It’s been one week since Shakespeare in Clark Park took home our first Barrymore Award and we’re still celebrating!

We also want to shout out some of our incredible summer collaborators recognized at this year’s ceremony: 
Kishia Nixon (Cleopatra in New Heaven, New Earth & Artistic Advisory Board) — Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Play for Glitter in the Glass (Directed by our 2024 Director of As You Like It, Ontaria Kim Wilson)
 and not one, not two, but THREE of our A Bottom’s Dream Company Members recognized for Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical for Gay Mis ***r

Lili St. Q***r (Titania/Quince)
Jenna Kuerzi (Puck/Snug)
Katherine Perry (Community Director & Artistic Advisory Board)

10/26/2025

We’ve hit our first milestone! 🎉 Thanks to your generosity, we’ve raised $1,000 toward our $10K End-of-Year goal!

Every dollar helps us bring free, BARRYMORE AWARD WINNING, joy-filled theatre to Philadelphia parks—and we’re just getting started. 🌳💫

Help us keep the momentum going and reach the next milestone! At $5,000 we’ll announce next summer’s show!

10/21/2025

Tonight we took home our first ever Barrymore Award for Outstanding Outdoor Production - All’s Well. Huge congratulations to all the nominees, recipients and the community as a whole! Thank you and to the artists and audiences. It is a real honor to be part of this community and we hope to do it for many years to come!

10/17/2025

👀 Seeing double? Us too.

Two Barrymore nominations. Two shows that lit up the park. And for one week only… every gift is matched 1:1.

Double the love. Double the impact. Now through awards night.

10/14/2025

Donation Double Alert!

To celebrate our two Barrymore Award nominations — As You Like It and All’s Well — every donation made this week will be DOUBLED!

That means your $25 becomes $50, your $100 becomes $200 — all going toward bringing more free Shakespeare to Philly parks. 💪💚

This special match ends on Barrymore Awards night! Help us celebrate by supporting the artists and community that make it all possible.

10/09/2025

✨ Our most ambitious season yet! ✨

This year, Shakespeare in Clark Park filled Philly’s parks with q***r joy, puppets, kids on stage, and radical community. From A Bottom’s Dream to All’s Well, New Heaven New Earth, and Complete Christmas (Abridged) — we dreamed big, laughed loud, and celebrated together.

Now we’re looking to the future — and we need your help to keep the joy alive. 💛

We’re raising $10,000 by December 31st to set the stage for our 2026 season of free, fearless theatre.

🎭 $25 keeps our parks clean and welcoming
🎭 $50 supports local artists and technicians
🎭 $100 fuels new partnerships and productions

Let’s keep creating radical joy — together. 🌙

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+12157645345

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http://www.shakespeareinclarkpark.org/

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