That’s a wrap! Bard in the Barracks closed our 2022 season, our sixteenth year of staging outdoor Shakespeare productions in Fredericton, on Sunday with a sold-out performance of Julius Caesar. This was an incredibly successful summer for us in all ways. Our productions of As You Like It in Odell Park and Julius Caesar downtown…
Final week for As You Like It and Julius Caesar, and Bard in the Barracks Silent Auction Fundraiser: take home a piece of Caesar!
It’s the final week of our 2022 season. Weather-permitting (!) there are ONLY THREE MORE PERFORMANCES each for As You Like It in Odell Park (Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, June 28, 30, and July 1) and Julius Caesar in downtown Fredericton (Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 29, July 2 and 3). Audiences have been absolutely…
Read (and hear) all about our productions!
It’s our day off while we all dry out a bit! We’re looking forward to being back in action tomorrow, June 21st under sunny skies for the resumption of our performances of As You Like It and Julius Caesar, running until July 3. In the meantime, maybe you’re like to catch up on some of…
Make Those Plans!
A whole lot of Shakespeare is coming to Fredericton soon! You definitely don’t want to miss either one of these exciting shows, so take a look at our festival schedule below and make those plans! Ps…are you planning to see both shows? Check out our festival passes and get a discount when you buy two…
Bard in the Barracks Presents: As You Like It in Odell Park and Julius Caesar in Downtown Fredericton!
Have you heard? Bard in the Barracks will be making a big comeback this summer, staging two new productions! Julius Caesar, Shakespeare’s famous tragedy of political intrigue, conspiracy, and revolution, will be performed on the streets of downtown Fredericton in an exciting and unconventional production directed by Len Falkenstein. Meanwhile, the much-loved pastoral romantic comedy…
BARD IN THE GARDEN: THE TEMPEST IN THE FREDERICTON BOTANIC GARDEN, JUNE 24-JULY 4
Bard in the Barracks Announces: After what would have been our fifteenth anniversary season in 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are delighted to announce that Bard in the Barracks will be making a cautious and modest return in 2021 by staging one production (for now, anyway) in a brand new location….
Bard in the Barracks’ Love’s Labour’s Lost (2012) now available for viewing!
Right about now, we should be gathering in the Park and Barracks Square every night, soaking up the beauty of early summer Fredericton, cursing the rain clouds and the mosquitoes, and taking in some fine Shakespeare. Instead, we’re cursing COVID-19. However, if you’re missing Bard in the Barracks, you now have another viewing option on…
Bard in the Barracks 2020 Season Postponed
Right about now, in a normal year, we at Bard in the Barracks would be getting ready to start rehearsals for another season of outdoor Shakespeare in downtown Fredericton. Of course, this is not a normal year. Today we are announcing the indefinite postponement of our 2020 season. This would have been our fifteenth anniversary…
Back in action Tuesday with A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Odell Park
There are only four more performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Odell Park remaining, tonight (Tues.), Thurs., Sat., and Sun., 7:30 nightly. And if you’re waiting for a night with perfect weather, that might not happen… You don’t want to miss this show, with moments like this! (music by Hannah Zamora, words by Wm….
Celebrating Costume Designer Lynn Addleman
We’re taking Canada Day off (happy Canada Day, everyone!) before beginning our final week of performances for this season. Only four performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Odell Park and three of Measure for Measure in Barracks Square remain. Both have been getting rave reviews from audience members, and with more uncertain weather in…
New Brunswick's Outdoor Shakespeare Theatre Company 