Free Shakespeare in the Park each year presents a professional production of Shakespeare in five public park venues, reaching ~ 30,000 Bay Area citizens. The Festival also engages communities through five arts education and engagement programs:

Shakespeare on Tour performs an abridged Shakespeare play at 150 schools, libraries and community centers in the Bay Area and throughout the State.

Youth ages 4-18 attend Bay Area Shakespeare Camps to explore Shakespeare’s plays and also learn the skills needed to perform them.

Tailor-Made Residencies connect Festival teaching artists with classroom teachers for in-school theater enrichment tailored to their students.

Shakespeare’s Heartbeat is a free education and arts enrichment program for students on the autism spectrum in the San Francisco Unified School District.

Shakespeare For All Neighbors is a weekly storytelling workshop for neighbors experiencing homelessness, presented at the Healing Well in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco.