The Drilling Company’s Free Shakespeare In The Parking Lot Returns to live Theater with a Celebration of the Bard’s 457TH Birthday April 23& April 24TH @ 7 PM In the parking lot of The Clemente, 114 Norfolk Street. Two nights of scenes, songs, sonnets and soliloquies.

Parking Lot of The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, 114 Norfolk Street.

Presented by The Drilling Company

FREE but limited to 50 participants

Masks and temperature checks required; social distancing observed.

Subways: F to Delancey Street, M to Essex Street.

Reservations strongly recommended: https://happy457will.eventbrite.com

NEW YORK, April 8 -- Will Shakespeare turns 457 on Friday, April 23. So on April 23 and 24, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM, members of The Drilling Company's Shakespeare in the Parking Lot Company will mount "Happy BirthdayShakespeare-457" in the parking lot of The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, 114 Norfolk Street. An energetic, one-hour collection of outdoor performances will be offered, all free to the public, all live and limited to 50 audience members. It's the first free Shakespeare to be offered in NYC in the year since the quarantine.

Led by Jane Bradley and Kathleen Simmonds, core players of the company will perform great speeches, scenes, sonnets and songs from the Shakespearean Canon.

Hamilton Clancy, Artistic Director of The Drilling Company, home of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, writes, “It’s essential to get our theater professionals back to work and to bring live theater safely back to the City. Who better to lead the way than William Shakespeare?”

Masks and temperature checks will be required and social distancing will be observed. Participation is free but only 50 patrons will be allowed per night. Admission is on a first-come-first-served basis and registrations are strongly recommended. To save yourself a place, reserve at: https://happy457will.eventbrite.com.