Every age can appreciate Shakespeare's poetry and sense of the human condition—both dramatic and comic. Here are ideas on how you can program his work anytime of the year. The full description of each program is listed in the program category underlined.

Celebrate Queen Elizabeth's Birthday in September by playing a scene from her favorite playwright, costumed like those who first played the parts in the program for children and multi-generational audiences, "Dancing the Words".

Be some of the scariest folks around this Halloween: the witches in Macbeth. Create characters by playing with sound and movement in the program for children and multi-generational audiences, "Actions to Words/Words to Actions".

Learn about the tradition of Twelfth Night and play with the topsy-turvy nature of love using texts from Shakespeare's play, with the program for children and multi-generational audiences, "Shakespeare Shorts".

Who are the world's best-loved lovers? Romeo and Juliet! Mark Valentine's Day by watching actors perform scenes from the play, with brief remarks that take the audience behind the scenes to learn how the performances were created in the program for children and multi-generational audiences, "Romeo & Juliet: Three Scenes".

Beware the Ides of March! Learn how Shakespeare constructs conflict in a scene from the program for adults and book clubs, "Julius Caesar: Constructing Conflict".

Honor the Birthday of the Bard (and National Poetry Month) in April, by following an actor through the rehearsal of the performance of a sonnet, in the program for adults and book clubs, "Speaking the Speech".

Mark Midsummer with a performance of The Comical Tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbie, a program for children and multi-generational audiences. This is a great program for a summer reading program.

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