<div><div dir="auto"><b><i> Get your Bard on!!</i></b></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Capital Region Festival of Theatre is throwing a Birthday Party for William Shakespeare who is turning 461 years young!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><img src="cid:ii_1962033c019397b15691" style="width:772px;max-width:100%"></div><br></div><div dir="auto">Every time we get together we have the BEST time and can’t get over how large, varied and just plain extraordinary Capital Region theatre is! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We put out a call for Shakespeare scenes, songs and monologues and over 40 people signed up in a week and a half! He’s the hottest ticket on Broadway and we’re going to have 20 pieces of his works or work inspired by him.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We’ll have music from Gail Sparlin & Cecelia Gray, monologues from Sara Buchter, George Filieau, Melissa Hughes, J Hunter, Jen Madison, Scala, Jeannine Trimboli, and scenes from the companies of Columbia County Players, Drama Kids International, Will Kempes Players and the casts of <i>Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Twelfth Night</i> and so much more!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Don’t miss this opportunity to salute Shakespeare and get a glimpse of some of what the amazing Capital Region theatre community offers all while raising much needed funds for the fast approaching festival 6/12-6/15.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">CR⭐️FT is a 4 day, region wide, 7 venue event which will celebrate and promote the over 100 theatre companies in Albany and its surrounding cities, towns and hamlets with performances, classes, workshops and discussions shouting out that the Capital Region is a GREAT place to love theatre!!❤️🎭</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Shakespeare’s Birthday Party!</div><div dir="auto"> Albany Barn</div><div dir="auto"> 56 Second Street</div><div dir="auto"> Wednesday, 4/23</div><div dir="auto"> 6:30-9:30</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Tickets:<div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shakespeares-birthday-party-tickets-1273130951949?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shakespeares-birthday-party-tickets-1273130951949?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Donate:</div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="http://crft.betterworld.org" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:-apple-system,helveticaneue;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(66,133,244);color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank">crft.betterworld.org</a></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:1rem;word-spacing:1px;color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></div><div><div><img width="96" height="96" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4yItZdoZ4pVn2aK6oCGgyX7VDM-eyi4XkN7zxLua1e1Ux06TkhhwF2TlCcFyI4LPAswoagHXvRbOl3D"></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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