Join us at idyllic and historic venues throughout Western New York, bring a lawn chair, and immerse yourself into the world of William Shakespeare in SOTL’s fast, fun, and physical style of performance, featuring live music and a professional cast of artists. Designed & staged for Shakespeare newbies and Bard aficionados alike! Appropriate for all audiences.
Approx. Running Time: 90 minutes with no intermission.
Touring July 18 to August 3
We request you to RSVP to the show in order to estimate crowd size.
Shows marked with an * have pay-what-you-can tickets.
Week 1
Depot Street
Springville, NY 14141
Thursday, July 18 6:30 – 8PM
Rain Venue: Springville Center for the Arts, 37 North Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141
HENRY V@Pavilion, NY
Hollwedel Memorial Library (formerly Pavilion Public Library)
5 Woodrow Drive Pavilion, NY 14525
Friday, July 19 6:30 – 8PM
Rain Venue: Pavilion DB Bunce Elementary at 7071 York Rd, Pavilion, NY 14525
Highbanks Rec Area Leicester, NY
Saturday, July 20 5:30 – 7:00PM
Rain Venue: Tent at the same location
1912 York Road West Linwood, NY 14486
Sunday, July 21 3:00 – 4:30PM
Rain Venue: TBD
Week 2
Arcade Village park
Clough Avenue Arcade, NY 14009
Wednesday, July 24 6:30 – 8:00PM
Rain Venue: Hope Lutheran Church at 2 E Main St, Arcade, NY 14009
4 South Street Geneseo, NY 14454
Thursday, July 25 6:30 – 8:00PM
Rain Venue: Tent at the same location
42 Walker Road Perry, NY 14530
Friday, July 26 6:30 – 8:00PM
Saturday, July 27 2:00 – 3:30PM*
Saturday, July 27 6:30 – 8:00PM*
*The 6:30 performance on Sat 7/27 will be ASL-interpreted
Rain Venue: Chalet Event Space at East Hill Creamery at 346 S. Main Street, Perry, NY 14530
Angelica Park Circle
Park Cir Angelica, NY 14709
Sunday, July 28 3:00 – 4:30PM
Rain Venue: Grange Hall, 49 Park Cir, Angelica, NY 14709
Week 3
Wellsville David A Howe Library
155 North Main Street Wellsville, NY 14895
Wednesday, July 31 6:30 – 8:00PM
Rain Venue: Auditorium at same location
St. Joseph’s Park
118 Pleasant St. Rochester, NY 14604
Thursday, August 1 6:30 – 8:00PM*
Friday, August 2 6:30 – 8:00PM
*The 6.30pm performance on Thu 8/1 will be ASL-interpreted
Rain Venue:
Morgan Manning House
151 Main Street Brockport, NY 14420
Saturday, August 3 6:30 – 8:00PM
Rain Venue: SUNY Brockport Black Box at 180 Holley St, Brockport, NY 14420
Directed by Chad Bradford
Cast: Quinn Gasaway, Matt Duncan, Selena Mykenzie Gordon, Ash Winkfield, and Tim Cooper
Stage Manager: Emily Grierson
Assistant Stage Manager: Amanda Kuo
Choreographer: Katie Greer
Set design by Vinny Mraz
Costume design by Sharon Combs
Social distancing and COVID-19 safety protocols will remain in place
Get to Know Us
Shake on the Lake started as a summer outdoor production and has grown into a regional touring company with programming all year long.
Our season starts in April with educational programming at K-12 schools throughout Western New York. Our experienced teaching artists teach puppetry, improvisation, playwriting, and theatre arts. Often educational programming includes a final performances by students.
Shake on the Lake performances start in the summer with our Shakespeare Summer Tour. Each year we focus on one of Shakespeare’s classic plays to devise our own Shake on the Lake production. In 90 minutes or less, we present the Bard in accessible, but not watered-down form. These shows can travel and have traveled many miles – communities simply pay our rental fee, and we show up with the set, sound, crew, and actors to perform in your community. The show is designed for outdoor venues.
In the summer, we also host Voices UnCaged, a program developed by Chad Bradford to bring theatre arts to correctional facilities. With a curriculum focused on students developing their own creative voice, students go from script to show in less than a week and perform for an audience of their peers.
Shake on the Lake is developing an exciting Theatre on Farms, an art and agritourism project, to follow our summer tour. Follow along as we develop our first immersive theatre pieces from classic Shakespeare plays like Macbeth and King Lear.
We end our season with a holiday classic at our home theatre, Theatre@37. Some years our holiday production is also tours, depending on the show.
Shake on the Lake is also happy discuss customized programming for your community. If you are thinking of commissioning your own Shakespeare tour, please reach out to us and we’d be happy to talk about our devising and creative process to see if it works with your community.
Learn more about our programming here: