WILMINGTON— Delaware Shakespeare is reimagining a comedy favorite with Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras, a bilingual musical adaptation set to run July 17 through August 3 at Rockwood Park as part of the 2025 Summer Festival. The production blends English, Spanish, and “Fake-speare,” combining Shakespeare’s classic language with vibrant original music and Latin American influences. The story follows Venezuelan …
Delaware Shakespeare (DelShakes) will present a summer production for the first time that is a musical, partly in Spanish, and includes words written by people not named William Shakespeare. “Twelfth Night O Lo Que Quieras” was initially presented in DelShakes’ 2022 community tour. Artistic director Mariah Ghant said she was “really blown away” by the 2022 production and wanted …
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If your little one is a unicorn fan, Rockwood Park’s annual Fairy Fest has a don’t-miss event for you: Pictures with unicorn ponies. It’s one of the many activities geared for childhood attention spans, when the festival returns from noon to 4 p.m. at Rockwood on Sunday, Sept. 15. A celebration of childhood imagination, Fairy Fest includes a costume parade, …
Here are some memorable spots to mark Christmas in Delaware and just over the border into Pennsylvania. Be prepared: some places required advance tickets, sell out or will be crowded. Longwood Gardens, for instance, drew 572,000 people in 2022 for its spectacular Christmas displays, and Schellville drew 163,000 for its extravaganza. These event run for weeks. There’s a separate list …
If you’re looking for a little holiday magic to brighten up the dark nights of winter, look no farther than the Wilmington Riverfront, where a two-mile stretch of the Riverwalk will be lit up for the Holiday Magic at Riverbright Wilmington. It’s one of more than a dozen of holiday light displays in the region, many of them free, like …
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Delaware Shakespeare returns to Rockwood Park this month with the three witches taking on a more central role than usual. “The witches enjoy chaos as a tool for learning,” said AZ Espinoza, who returns to DelShakes to direct the Scottish play, in a press release. “They lean into the power of the natural world to seek balance and to remind …
We might be living through the golden age of holiday lights displays. Whether you want inside or out, huge or just enough, artistic or deliberately tacky, walk-through or drive-through, free or you’re willing to pay, there’s a display for you either here in the First State or right over the state line. In Delaware, many of the displays have …
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