Shakespeare in the Park
About the Festival
Southern Shakespeare Company’s FREE Shakespeare in the Park Festival has been a downtown Tallahassee tradition at Cascades Park since 2015.
Due to destructive weather, the Saturday and Sunday 5/11-12 performances of The Winter’s Tale have been relocated to Westminster Oaks, which will also host one Sunday 5:30 PM performance of the Bardlings’ one-hour The Tempest.
Scroll down for details about capacity, parking, and more.
DAILY SCHEDULE
This schedule has been updated to reflect the remaining performances as of 5/10 at 8:30 PM.
Sunday, May 12th:
Mothers’ Day
5:30 pm – The Bardlings’ one-hour version of The Tempest at Westminster Oaks (4449 Meandering Way Tallahassee, FL 32308)
Seating is first-come, first-served for up to 200 total attendees. Parking is available in the Westminster Oaks parking garage.
7:30 pm – The Winter’s Tale at Westminster Oaks (4449 Meandering Way Tallahassee, FL 32308)
Parking is available in the Westminster Oaks parking garage.
General seating is first-come, first-served for up to 200 total attendees. Doors open at 7:15 PM.
Sponsors and persons previously purchased reserved seating, you may check in at the VIP table and proceed to the VIP entrance by no later than 7:15 PM in order to have greater seat selection options.
Nathan Darrow (Celebrity Guest Artist, King Leontes) is an American actor who has worked professionally for over twenty years in theater, film, and television. He has worked across the United States as well as internationally. Most widely, he is known for having played Edward Meechum on the Netflix series House of Cards and for playing Mr. Freeze on the Fox series Gotham. In 2017, he played Andrew Madoff along with Michelle Pfieffer and Robert DeNiro in The Wizard of Lies directed by Barry Levinson for HBO. Roles on stage include John Buchanan in Summer and Smoke with Marin Ireland as Alma; Richmond to Kevin Spacey’s Richard in Richard III directed by Sam Mendes which played The Old Vic, BAM, and a further ten cities internationally. In 2017 he played Hamlet at The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival in Kansas City where he grew up. Other work includes: The Winter’s Tale (Hartford Stage), A Chorus Line (MTH), Dial M For Murder (Old Globe, world premiere of a new adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (KC Rep), A Number (People’s Light). Other work in TV/Film includes: Billions – Showtime, Godless – Netflix, Preacher – AMC, Rectify – Sundance Channel. Nathan is currently at work on a live, solo (word for word and gesture for gesture) performance of The Godfather, Parts I & II. He is a company member of The Actors Center where he has worked frequently with Vyacheslav Dolgachev and Ron Van Lieu. Nathan received actor training at NYU working with Zelda Fichandler, Deborah Hecht, and Liviu Ciulei.
COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS
Our auditions for Much Ado About Nothing will follow all CDC guidelines. At this time, masks are required to be worn by all participants during the in-person auditions.
Participants must be free from fever for 48 hours without medication and not exposed to anyone with a fever for 48 hours. They must also not have any flu-like symptoms or be exposed to anyone with flu like symptoms.
Masks may be removed by the auditionee, once in the audition room, assuming all parties are comfortable, as the Director and Stage Manager will be maintaining greater than six feet of distance from the auditionee.
Your cooperation in keeping everyone safe is vital; if you feel sick, please stay home and consider a self-taped or Zoom audition.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS
The Adderley Amphitheater stage in Cascades Park has been Tallahassee’s home for Shakespeare in the Park since 2015.
Learn more about our production history: click on a show title to view the production’s digital playbill or click on gallery photos to view them in a larger size.
ANTONY & CLEOPATRA
Guest starring two-time Emmy nominee Kelsey Scott and Alec Ruiz, 2023
Photographer: Bob Howard
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Guest starring Kevin McDonald of The Kids in the Hall, 2022
Photographer: Bob Howard
TWELFTH NIGHT
Guest starring Hal Sparks of Queer as Folk, 2021
Photographer: Bob Howard
