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The Sweet Tea Shakespeare Hours are our streaming, podcast, and preshow programs. The Hours offer a variety of encounters with Sweet Tea Shakespeare across a varie-tea of ideas, features, and adventures.

Check out Lunch Hours for industry and in-depth interviews on Shakespeare and performance, theatre, and culture.

Drop in on Cocktail Hours for the inside scoop on all things Sweet Tea as friends gather for casual chat and great fun.

Join the joyful rage of After Hours for politics, pop culture, original writing, entertainment, and their intersections with Shakespeare.

Green Tea & Little Green Tea are our ongoing youth programs centered on building collaboration, awareness, and love for playmaking.

WHAT'S UPCOMING

OUR LATEST

The Sweet Tea Shakespeare Hours: Original Practices

After Hours | Dystopia, Falstaff’s Son, The Old Guard

Lunch Hours | Race & Shakespeare (with Kelsie Blocker)

Sweet Tea Shakespeare’s Assistant Artistic Director, Claire F. Martin, interviews actor/writer Kelsie Blocker about navigating the racism and sexism embedded both in Shakespeare’s plays and in the field of classical theater. More about our Lunch Hours guest: Kelsie is an actor, writer, and comedian based in Virginia. She is a Shakespeare and Performance student at Mary Baldwin and has a […]

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Sweet Tea Shakespeare started as a dream.

A dream to bring the plays of Shakespeare alive for new audiences. To show those audiences that words penned 400 years ago are still relevant. A dream for characters to come alive and connect with audiences. The dream started small and has grown to serve thousands of theatre goers every year.

Shakespeare came from humble beginnings. The son of a glove-maker, he charted his own course by becoming a playwright (can you imagine that dinner conversation?). Shakespeare’s band of merry men was no larger than our own group of beloved actors. 12-15 passionate storytellers transforming the complex issues of their time and making them available for everyone.

We like small. We’re good at small. We’re good at stringing small things together and making the end product bigger than the sum of its parts. We put our shows up every night from the ground up – lights, music, sets, all of it. It looks daunting, but almost by magic, it happens.

Your gift to us is like that. Small is actually mighty. The Big Gift is always needed and very welcome, but we know that small gifts add up in big ways. 5 bucks a month turns into $60 a year which helps us keep the lights going. $10 per month magically turns into $120 per year which helps us get an actor from the Triangle back and forth to rehearsal. $50 per month is actually $600 per year, helping create costumes for actors. Your impact is real and tangible.

Sweet Tea Shakespeare takes small gifts and makes them big impact. Join our community today by clicking below or visiting us on Patreon.

Small but Mighty

$5 PER MONTH

5 bucks a month turns into $60 a year which helps us keep the lights going.

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Little but Fierce

$10 PER MONTH

$10 per month magically turns into $120 per year which helps us get an actor from the Triangle back and forth to rehearsal. In exchange for your kindness, and in addition to all previous perks, grab a lawn chair seat cushion at each performance on the house! (Subject to availability)

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Modest but Matters

$20 PER MONTH

$20 is actually $240 a year and helps us pay a fair actor or musician stipend. In consideration for your monthly contribution at this level, you can have one ticket per production for each of our events.

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Triumphant

$40 PER MONTH

$40 becomes $480 per year, and pays tuition for one of the members of our young company, Green Tea, as they meet monthly and work on an annual production. These students are the future of Sweet Tea Shakespeare and your support of them is planting seeds for the future of our work.

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Big Impact

$100 PER MONTH

$100 a month becomes $1200 per year and is a huge impact for Sweet Tea Shakespeare. From sponsoring directors and musicians to funding costumes to musical instruments, these foundational givers help Sweet Tea Shakespeare to make a major impact in our communities.

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Mighty Force

$250 PER MONTH

$250 a month becomes $3000 per year that helps us to underwrite the cost of a production and its artists and expenses. These mighty givers are incredible partners in our experience.

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