Announcing our 2024 Season

Join us as we celebrate seventeen years of presenting free and accessible professional classical theatre in NYC. The Winter's Tale and A Midsummer Night's Dream will tour in repertory to nine parks August 7-24.

Plus, our interactive children's workshop "Kids & the Classics" will be offered thirty minutes before each performance.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Four young lovers escape the tyranny of the court to find love in a magical forest. On the same night and in the same forest, the king and queen of the fairies declare war on each other, and a company of amateur actors meet to rehearse a play. See what happens when a mischievous sprite called Puck weaves their three stories into one.

The Winter's Tale

King Leontes falsely accuses his pregnant wife of infidelity with his best friend. Consumed by jealousy, he makes a series of catastrophic decisions that tear his family apart and leave his newborn daughter abandoned. Sixteen years later, can time bring healing and reconciliation?

Kids & the Classics

"Kids & the Classics" is the companion piece to Hip to Hip's program of "Free Shakespeare in the Parks." This free interactive workshop is offered 30 minutes before every performance, and is designed for children ages 4 to 12. It gives children a chance to interact with the text by previewing the characters and situations, and creating links between the text and their own lives through theatre games and close reading of text.

Programming made possible in part with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.