School Visit Program

Note: Registrations for Fall 2024 are closed, but now is the time to plan for our Fall 2025 Tour—we’ll be announcing details soon!

Our exciting School Visit Program includes a visit to your school’s theatre, auditorium, or gymnasium, featuring live performances, talkbacks, and workshops—all designed to entertain and educate students of all ages.

OSF founder Angus Bowmer started this program over 40 years ago with one simple goal: to bring Shakespeare into as many schools as possible. We are proud to continue this legacy that for many students will be their first and sometimes only exposure to theatre and Shakespeare’s plays in performance.

Specific content for the Fall 2025 School Visit will be announced soon.

OSF offers two School Visit performance options for your students:

• Shakespeare Program: This performance is a 40–minute accessible adaptation of a play or series of thematically linked scenes by William Shakespeare.
• Dramatic Literature Program: A 40-minute performance featuring poetry, classic prose, short stories by contemporary authors, and Shakespeare.

A single day of School Visit Programming includes up to four events including a combination of:

• Performances and Talkbacks – Each performance is approximately 40 minutes in length and includes a 10-minute discussion with students following the show. Performances can be scheduled for student groups of 25–500.
  
  Schools may select from the team’s two performance program offerings:
  • Shakespeare program
  • Literature program
    
    
• Workshops – Following performances, the team will lead either one 2-hour workshop or up to three 1-hour workshops, limited to 40 students each.
  
  The workshop curriculum involves active explorations of Shakespeare and other authors’ text; ideal for language arts and drama classes. Additional workshop time can be scheduled with the purchase of additional SVP days.

Each day of the School Visit Program includes up to four events led by OSF teaching artists. Schools are invited to book multiple, consecutive days if more than four events are desired. 

2024 cost per day: $1,200.
Partial scholarships available.

To receive information about our School Visit Program, please complete this form.

For information about the School Visit Program, or about OSF’s other Education and Engagement programming, please email us.