Flatwater Shakespeare Company is thrilled to announce our 2024 season of shows! This year’s selections offer three literary gems that will delight, intrigue, and mystify audiences. “Flatwater Shakespeare Company's 2024 season will captivate, enthrall, and inspire. We hope to see you at the shows!” - FSC Executive Artistic Director Marshall Carby. First up, under the direction of Reed Westerhoff, we have William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost. When a King and his courtiers vow to forsake love, fate intervenes with a royal visit, igniting a hilarious battle between wit and passi ..read more

Say Hello to the Cast and Crew of The Winter's Tale! Flatwater Shakespeare will stage The Winter's Tale for the first time ever in the Company's twenty-three-year history, under the direction of Resident Scholar Stephen Buhler. Rehearsals have already begun, so purchase your tickets today! Tickets can be purchased at https://flatwatershakespearecompany.org/.../tickets... *Financial support for this production has been provided by the Lancaster County Visitor Promotion Fund and Nebraska Arts Council ..read more

  A Letter from Marshall Carby, Executive Artistic Director, Flatwater Shakespeare Company Greetings, Flatwater Shakespeare Community! If I haven’t had the opportunity to meet you at one of our productions or educational programs, I would like to introduce myself to you now. My name is Marshall Carby, and I am the Executive Artistic Director for Flatwater Shakespeare Company. I was hired in January of last year, and it has been my honor to continue the rich tradition of bringing high-quality theatrical productions and community-based educational programs to Lincoln, as we have for the ..read more

  FSC Resident Scholar Stephen Buhler really wishes he could see this before it closes January 8. That won't happen, but he looks forward to reading the published script and finding connections with other recent Dark Lady texts, such as Caroline Randall Williams's Lucy Negro Redux (recently staged as a ballet, Black Lucy and the Bard) and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia. It's a wonderful coincidence that Amelia Workman, the actress playing Jane Anger for this production, shares a name with Aemilia Lanyer, the central character of Malcolm's play (also a historical figure, also a trailblazi ..read more

  They weren't yet permitted on the stage, but Early Modern women played a vital role in rebuilding the 17th-century Fortune Theatre. Exciting research from Lucy Munro and Clare McManus! h/t our friend A. J. Hartley https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/dec/11/revealed-how-women-bankrolled-rival-to-17th-century-globe-theatre ..read more

  An interview with former Poet Laureate Billy Collins, about keeping Shakespeare and all great writers and poetry itself on a human scale: https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/billy-collins  The podcast includes Collins reading this delightful poem about a time-traveling Will -- "The Bard in Flight" It occurred to me on a flight from London to Barcelona that Shakespeare could have written This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England with more authority had he occupied the window seat next to me instead of this businessman from Frankfurt. Of course, after a coup ..read more

Our friend Austin Tichenor recently watched the multiple Emmy Award-winning show The White Lotus and "suddenly beheld the wonder of what creator Mike White had accomplished: transforming William Shakespeare’s The Tempest into a darkly funny satire of the hospitality industry." Of course, he had to share that wonder with the world via the Folger Shakespeare Library's Shakespeare & Beyond blog. Enjoy! https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2022/09/30/tempest-the-white-lotus/ Photo: Natasha Rothwell as Belinda, Murray Bartlett as Armond in Season One of The White Lotus. Phot ..read more

Our production of ?????? ??????, directed by Marshall Carby, continues tonight, 7:30 p.m., at Wyuka Stables, 3600 "O" Street in Lincoln! Can't make it tonight? No worries! The show will also be performed September 8-11, Thursday through Sunday, at the same location and time. So many remarkable performances make this is a show that you don't want to miss. Grab your tickets online at https://flatwatershakespearecompany.org or at the door. Come enjoy some Shakespearean theatre, as he liked it: actor-centered, open-air, big-hearted. On the theme of big-heartedness, those who resisted South Afric ..read more

Did you miss August 19th's Friday Live on Nebraska Public Media FM with FSC Executive Artistic Director Marshall Carby and host Genevieve Randall talking about his production of Julius Caesar? Or did you listen in that morning, but still want to hear the interview again and again? Well, here you go -- https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/series-media/friday-live-audio/standalone-audio-15896/rowe-flatwater-shakespeare-frank-s-oneal-opera-omaha-more-50019502/ Their conversation starts around 7:50 in the broadcast turned podcast. Julius Caesar opens Thursday, August 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the hist ..read more

  Flatwater FREE Shakespeare Summer Tour 2022 – Much Ado About Nothing Got questions? We have answers. What Is Your Inclement Weather Policy? It is our desire to complete every performance, and we will make every effort to start, continue, and finish each show despite light rainfall or breezy conditions.  In the event of heavier rains or winds, however, we may delay the start of the show, or the completion of the show, in the hope that the weather will clear. Announcements will be made informing audience members of "holds." We may also pause to take precautions to ensure the safe ..read more