The EmilyAnn Shakesperience for Elementary Students

MSC Gates Ballroom 275 Joe Routt Blvd #2240, College Station, TX, United States

Participants will engage in activities that allow children to explore Shakespeare with open minds, and learn of his life, times, and works through play and fun.

Free

Lecture Featuring Dr. Douglas S. Bruster, The University of Texas at Austin

Liberal Arts and Arts & Humanities Building Room 453 349 Spence St, College Station, TX, United States

This lecture will feature Dr. Douglas S. Bruster, Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor in American and English Literature and Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin.

Free

Austin Shakespeare Presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Grand Stafford Theatre 106 S. Main St., Bryan, TX, United States

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy in which four young lovers flee the adult world to the forest where they are enchanted by the King and Queen of the Fairies.

Free

Present Company Presents Shakespeare’s Hamlet

The Amity Building in Downtown Bryan, TX 300 W. 26th St., Bryan, TX, United States

Austin’s Present Company will mount a 7-actor production of Hamlet based on the text from the First Folio.

Free

O (Dir. Tim Blake Nelson, US, 2001)

601 Rudder Tower 401 Joe Routt Blvd, College Station, TX, United States

Featuring Julia Stiles, this modern adaptation of Othello is set in an upper class prep school and is centered on drama surrounding star basketball player Odin.

Free

Shakespeare Behind Bars (Dir. Hank Rogerson, US, 2005)

Harrington Education Center Classroom Building (HECC) 209 544 Ross St, College Station, TX, United States

This documentary follows 20 male inmates in a Kentucky prison on their nine month process of bringing Shakespeare’s The Tempest to performance.

Free

Were the World Mine (Dir. Tom Gustafson, US, 2008)

MSC 2300D 275 Joe Routt Blvd #2240, College Station, TX, United States

Inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a bullied and demoralized gay student at an all-boys school uses a magical flower to turn many in his community gay, to let them take a walk in his shoes.

Free

Chimes at Midnight (Dir. Orson Welles, US, 1966)

MSC 2400 275 Joe Routt Blvd. #2240, College Station, TX, United States

The film’s plot centers on Shakespeare’s recurring character Falstaff and his father-son relationship with Prince Hal.

Free