BROWN BOX THEATRE RECEIVES CITY GRANT TO EXPAND TOUR OF
FREE SHAKESPEARE: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
(BOSTON) – Brown Box Theatre Project continues its 2013 season with Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in six locations throughout South Boston, Dorchester, Hyde Park, and Fort Point. The nine outdoor performances will be open to the public and entirely free of charge.
Brown Box Theatre Project has also been awarded a grant from the City of Boston’s Fort Point Channel Watersheet Activation program to stage three free performances at Children Wharf’s Park, outside the Boston Children’s Museum, the weekend of August 23.
Kyler Taustin, a graduate of Emerson College in Boston, founded Brown Box Theatre Project in 2010 with the goal of bringing the performing arts to communities and audiences that usually lack access to live theatre. This year’s performances at the Children’s Museum are just one stop in Brown Box’s Shakespeare at the Beach tour, a program that brings free Shakespeare productions directly into communities and schools. Other locations on the tour include Martini Shell Park, Marine Park, Carson Beach, and Still Harbor in Dorchester.
“Boston can be considered a great city for culture, but there are still communities that are underserved by the local theatre scene,” said Taustin. “South Boston, Hyde Park, Dorchester, and Fort Point—these are the places we want to go.” Following their Boston performances, the Brown Box cast and crew will pack up their set and continue their tour on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware.
For more information about Shakespeare at the Beach and Brown Box Theatre Project, please visit www.brownboxtheatre.org.
BOSTON PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
8/23 @ 6:30pm Children’s Wharf Park (Boston Children’s Museum)
8/24 @ 1:00pm Children’s Wharf Park (Boston Children’s Museum)
8/24 @ 7:00pm Martini Shell Park, 1015 Truman Parkway, Hyde Park
8/25 @ 1:00pm Children’s Wharf Park (Boston Children’s Museum)
8/30 @ 7:00pm Still Harbor, 666 Dorchester Ave., South Boston
8/31 @ 2:00pm Carson Beach, South Boston
8/31 @ 7:00pm Still Harbor, 666 Dorchester Ave., South Boston
9/1 @ 2:00pm Marine Park, 150 Farragut Road, South Boston
9/1 @ 7:00pm Still Harbor, 666 Dorchester Ave., South Boston