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Shakespeare Summer Stroll
Performances will take place over two weekends:
7/25 – 7/27 and 8/1 – 8/3
Friday and Saturday evening performances, 6 -7 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Sunday matinee performances, 2 – 3 p.m.
ABOUT SHAKESPEARE SUMMER STROLL
Shakespeare Napa Valley and di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art present Shakespeare Summer Stroll: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a site-integrated performance of William Shakespeare’s whimsical romantic comedy. Performed along di Rosa’s scenic trails and art-filled landscape with a cast comprised of Shakespeare Napa Valley Guest Artists and Napa Valley College students. This immersive production invites audiences to experience a world of fairies, mistaken identities, and enchanted forests—all nestled within the natural beauty of Napa Valley.
2025 Shakespeare Summer Stroll: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Directed by Olivia Cowell
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a whimsical romantic comedy that weaves together the misadventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors, and a band of mischievous fairies. Set in an enchanted forest, the play explores themes of love, transformation, and illusion. With magical mix-ups, mistaken identities, and plenty of laughs, it’s one of Shakespeare’s most beloved and delightfully chaotic comedies.
ABOUT SHAKESPEARE NAPA VALLEY
In 2010, Shakespeare Napa Valley (SNV). SNV, a program of the Napa Valley College District Auxiliary Services Foundation, partnered with the City of Napa to present a production of The Taming of the Shrew in downtown Napa’s Veteran’s Park. It saw record setting attendance and renewed passion for Shakespeare was ignited in the Napa Valley through the company’s inventive storytelling of Shakespeare’s classic tale.
Since that inaugural production, SNV has produced at least one full-scale production each year, attracting audiences of over 30,000 to see their exciting, interactive, and wildly imagined productions of plays written or inspired by William Shakespeare.
A champion of original work as well as the classics, Shakespeare Napa Valley began a new plays program in 2015, with Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor writing and directing world premiere workshop performances of Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) with SNV. In 2019, they were in residency again to workshop Hamlet’s Big Adventure. Both went on to successful runs with the Reduced Shakespeare Company.
Along with new work, SNV has promoted a global presence with productions of The Comedy of Errors and As You Like It being presented at the UK International Youth Arts Festival in London. SNV’s Founder and Artistic Director Jennifer King directed the 2017 Czech premiere of Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged), as well as The Comedy of Errors (2018) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2019) for the Prague Shakespeare Company.
These experiences, along with associations with Arts Council Napa Valley, Theater Bay Area, Theater Communications Group, Shakespeare Theaters Association, Earth Shakes, and Globetrotting Shakespeare, have raised the profile of Shakespeare Napa Valley as a local, national, and global arts leader. as SNV’s fiscal sponsor.
Shakespeare Summer Stroll is made possible in part by a Collaborative Arts and Culture Grant from the County of Napa Board of Supervisors.