Arts & Entertainment

Not to Be: Shakespeare Festival Calls it Quits

After 17 seasons, the festival comes to an end.

The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival (BSF) announced on its website Wednesday it is closing after 17 seasons.

BSF has staged performances at its headquarters at 3900 Roland Avenue at St. Mary's in Hampden and at the Meadow at Evergreen Museum and Library in the summer.

“The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival has played a leading role in the growth and vitality of the local theater scene,” BSF Board President Peter Toran wrote in a statement posted on the group's website. “The theater’s legacy will live on in the hundreds of careers that have been launched and nurtured on our stages, as well as in the literally thousands of area schoolchildren whose first exposure to theater and to Shakespeare came as a result of BSF’s educational programming."

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