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Bard Fest Opens This Week

Indy's Shakespeare festival is back for its 5th year! Bard Fest 2019 includes productions of "Henry IV", "Hamlet", a youth production of "The Tempest", and the regional premiere of "Lear's Shadow" by Elerding - an award-winning adaptation of King Lear. For tickets and more info, visit their website here. 

The Wars of the Roses

  In a city that rarely sees a production of Shakespeare without an easily recognizable name, the EclecticPond Theatre Company (ETC) has become a welcome respite. The group, which was founded in 2010, has embraced some of the Bard’s lesser-known works, with productions like “The Comedy of Errors” and “Shakespeare Wrote What? and “10x10.” Now, about to close its third season, ETC decided to tackle something big.   Their latest endeavor is the most ambitious to date, “The War of the Roses” covers eight of Shakespeare’s histories using on eight actors. The shows will be spaced over the course of four weekends with different batches shown on different days. Audience members will have the opportunity to see the shows all in one day, two at a time or four at a time. This unique experience, which has been in the works for more than a year, begins in June. The cast and crew are excited to see how this new challenge unfolds. There are three directors sharing the responsibilit...