Theater Partners: 2008-2009 Season

The National Endowment for the Arts, in cooperation with Arts Midwest, selected the following theater companies from across the country through competitive review processes. The companies are all exemplary, professional, not-for-profit groups with substantial performing experience.

The selected companies for the 2008-2009 season of Shakespeare for a New Generation are:

• The Acting Company, New York, NY
• Actors' Shakespeare Project, Cambridge, MA
• African-American Shakespeare, San Francisco, CA
• Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, AL
• American Players Theatre, Spring Green, WI
• American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, VA
• Aquila Theatre Company, New York, NY
• Barter Theatre, Abingdon, VA
• California Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley, CA
• The Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis, MN
• Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati, OH
• Classic Stage Company, New York, NY
• The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, CO
• East LA Classic Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
• Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Atlanta, GA
• Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Honolulu, HI
• Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise, ID
• Indiana Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis, IN
• Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Louisville, KY
• Lantern Theater Company, Philadelphia, PA
• Main Street Theater, Houston, TX
• Milwaukee Shakespeare, Milwaukee, WI
• Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Bozeman, MT
• The Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Nashville, TN
• A Noise Within, Glendale, CA
• Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR

• Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Orlando, FL
• The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at DeSales University, Center Valley, PA
• PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill, NC
• Portland Stage Company, Portland, ME
• Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle, WA
• Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA
• The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, New Orleans, LA
• Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
• Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC
• The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Madison, NJ
• Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, UT
• Walltown Children's Theatre, Durham, NC
• Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Weston, VT
• Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga, CA