Programs

Fall 2025: Julius Caesar

Registration for the Fall 2025 production is full. Please email Suzanne Rubinstein to be added to the waitlist. It is possible the first one or two people on the waitlist will get a spot.

Questions?  Email the Suzanne Rubinstein, Director of YSP East.

Commitment to Non-discrimination

Young Shakespeare Players East does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national and/or ethnic origin, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender expression, body type, physical ability, or disability in the administration of any of its programs, registration policies, or scholarships, as well as volunteer policies and other activities. 

Young Shakespeare Players East’s Disability Non-discrimination Policy

YSP East’s Epinephrine Policy

Recent past productions:

Fall 2024: The Winter’s Tale

Fall 2023: The Tempest

Fall 2022: Twelfth Night

Fall 2021: Dickens Dramatic Reading Society: The Thirteen Clocks

Fall 2020: Shakespeare on Film

Fall 2019-Winter 2020: The Comedy of Errors

Fall 2018: Macbeth

Spring 2018: Two Short Comedies by George Bernard Shaw- Augustus Does His Bit and The Music Cure

Fall 2017: Henry IV, part 1

Spring 2017: As You Like It  

Fall 2016: Richard II 

Spring 2016 Production: Romeo & Juliet

Fall 2015 Production: The Tempest

Spring 2015: Julius Caesar

Winter 2015: Dickens Dramatic Reading Society- A Tale of Two Cities

Fall 2014: Twelfth Night

Winter 2014: Dickens Dramatic Reading Society- Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber

Fall 2013: Macbeth

Spring 2013: Shakespeare Workshop-Touches of Sweet Harmony

Fall 2012: Shakespeare Workshop-Sounds and Sweet Airs

“We are not interested in turning a child into a theatrical product. Our product is self-knowledge, self-confidence and self-respect. Our kids know they can do anything.”

–Richard DiPrima, Founder of Young Shakespeare Players, Madison

YSP East is the proud recipient of the
2014 Bardie People’s Choice Award:
Best Shakespeare Educational Program (K-12)

Bardie