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With options for students Grade 3-12, young performers will take center stage to perform their hearts out in thrilling performing arts camps from Orlando Shakes! While learning from theater professionals, young actors will tackle essential acting skills while exploring their craft through fun themes, including stories from Magic Tree House, Wild Kratts, Shakespeare, and more!

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Music of The Bahamas tells the story of the origins of Bahamian folk music from the days of slavery to the mid-20th century.

Two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, a popular annual holiday tradition, and Shakespeare’s most famous love story will highlight Orlando Shakes’ 2025-2026 season, it was announced today.

Orlando Shakes in partnership with UCF, Central Florida’s premiere professional regional theater, will feature five productions as part of its Signature Series, two children’s shows, and its Christmas time audience favorite, A Christmas Carol.

By Nilo Cruz

In Ybor City, (Tampa) Florida, 1929, cigars are rolled by hand as Cuban factory workers listen to the voices of lectors reading aloud great works of literature. When a handsome new lector begins reading Anna Karenina, he ignites a powder keg of passions. Longing, love, and betrayal spark a volatile flame that signals the end of an era.

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson journey to the English countryside to investigate the mysterious case of the Baskerville family.