New Swan Shakespeare Festival

The New Swan Shakespeare Festival is Orange County's only professional Shakespeare festival performed outdoors in a sustainable, portable mini-Elizabethan theatre, the New Swan Theater, where the audience and actors inhabit the same dynamic, in-the-round space.

Our 2014 Season is our third year producing Shakespeare under the stars.  This season will feature a wide range of festivities and educational opportunities as well as two dynamic fully produced productions of Shakespeare's greatest works.

The New Swan Shakespeare Festival is hosted and produced in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and theDepartment of Drama.