How it All Started
Marilyn Strauss, founder of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, tells the story of how the Shakespeare Festival became a reality…
Production History
Melinda McCrary, Cinnamon Schultz and Kelly Main in Much Ado About Nothing
There are 26 productions in the Festival's 20-year history.
2012 Antony and Cleopatra
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2011 Macbeth
2010 King Richard III
2009 The Merry Wives of Windsor
2008 Othello
2007 Romeo and Juliet
2006 King Henry V
2005 Much Ado About Nothing
2004 Julius Caesar
2003 Hamlet
Marilyn Strauss, Founder
Marilyn is a former Broadway producer, who returned to her home town from New York where she co-produced five plays, earning a Tony award, for the Irish drama, Da, an Off Broadway award (Obie) for Getting Out and a Tony nomination for the musical Pump Boys and Dinettes.
Felicia Hardison Londré, Honorary Co-Founder
Felicia Hardison Londré is Curators’ Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Honorary Co-Founder of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival.
