Hip to Hip Theatre Company

Tempest, Love's Labour's Tour Queens Parks

New York City's Hip to Hip Theatre Company, celebrating its seventh season of Free Shakespeare in the Park in Queens, is touring productions of William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Love's Labour's Lost in repertory to 10 Queens' parks, covering every geographical area of the borough, from July 24 to August 18.

The company will also make tour stops in Jersey City, N.J., and Southampton on Long Island.

These family-friendly productions are for lovers of Shakespeare and for those experiencing Shakespeare for the first time. The company stages full theatrical productions with their own sets, costumes, and audio gear. All performances are free and open to the public. Bring blankets, low chairs and picnic fare. Seating is first come, first served.

Hip to Hip's new free children's program “Kids & the Classics” will be offered 30 minutes before each performance. This total-theater experience will enrich, empower, and entertain kids of all ages through a series of games teaching the tenets of ensemble playing while introducing them to the elements of theater and the words and imaginative stories of Shakespeare's plays.

The full tour schedule follows:

• July 24, Wednesday, Flushing Meadows Park, The Tempest, 7:30 p.m.
• July 25, Thursday, Crocheron Park-Bayside, Love's Labour's Lost, 7:30 p.m.
• July 26, Friday, Lost Battalion Rec Center, Love's Labour's Lost, 7:30 p.m.
• July 27, Saturday, O'Donohue Park-Rockaway, The Tempest, 7 p.m.
• July 28, Sunday, Cunningham Park, The Tempest, 8 p.m.
• July 31, Wednesday, St. Albans Park, Love's Labour's Lost, 7:30 p.m.
• August 1, Thursday, Voelker Orth Museum, Love's Labour's Lost, 7:30 p.m.
• August 2, Friday, Sunnyside Gardens Park, The Tempest, 8 p.m.
• August 3, Saturday, Gantry Plaza State Park, Love's Labour's Lost, 7:30 p.m.
• August 4, Sunday, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Tempest, 5 p.m.
• August 7, Wednesday, Flushing Meadows Park, Love's Labour's Lost, 7:30 p.m.
• August 8, Thursday, Crocheron Park-Bayside, The Tempest, 7:30 p.m.
• August 9, Friday, Sunnyside Gardens Park, Love's Labour's Lost, 8 p.m.
• August 10, Saturday, Gantry Plaza State Park, The Tempest, 7:30 p.m.
• August 11, Sunday, Socrates Sculpture Park, Love's Labour's Lost, 5 p.m.
• August 14, Wednesday, Newport –Jersey City, The Tempest, 7:30 p.m.
• August 15, Thursday, Voelker Orth Museum, The Tempest, 7:30 p.m.
• August 16, Friday, Southampton Agawam Park, Love's Labour's Lost, 7:30 p.m.
• August 17, Saturday, Southampton Agawam Park, The Tempest, 7:30 p.m.
• August 18, Sunday, Rain Date

July 28, 2013

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