The Long Beach Shakespeare Company
Mission:
The Long Beach Shakespeare Company's mission is to promote literacy and enrich the lives of our audiences with quality productions of classic literature, live music and spectacle.
About the Company:
The Long Beach
Shakespeare Company was established in 1990 as the non-profit [501
(c)(3)] theatre arts organization "The-Bard-In-The-Yard." Its goal was
to provide free Shakespeare to the greater Long Beach community,
particularly underprivileged audiences, by performing in the parks of
Long Beach in the summer.
In 1997, under the artistic direction
of Helen Borgers, the company became a full-time operation, performing
all over southern and central California throughout the year in
schools, churches, museums, Renaissance faires, Girl Scout Camps, Boy
Scout meetings, the Challengers Boys and Girls Club, and the Los
Angeles Times Festival of Books, as well as in the parks of Long Beach.
The company began a three-year association with the Long Beach Public
Corporation for the Arts in their Passport to the Arts program in the
Long Beach Unified School District. The company also expanded its
repertoire to include classics from the Greeks to early 20th century
American authors and playwrights.
