In what has become a much-anticipated summer event, The Ridgefield Playhouse along with title sponsor Collins Hannafin, P.C. will host an ever Green Expo bursting with food and fun activities plus Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s family-friendly “All’s Well That Ends Well” (pictured) – all on the green next to The Ridgefield Playhouse on Saturday, August 10. The Expo runs from 12 noon to 4 p.m.; the performance starts at 2 p.m. With area experts representing products and services that make it easy to “live green”, healthy food & drink and a contemporary twist on a timeless play taking place under a tent for a seated audience at 2 p.m., it’s summertime fun for the whole family.
“The Green Expo and Shakespeare on the Green event is presented as a gift to the community, and each year, more than 500 patrons look forward to coming to the Playhouse to see a great theatrical event plus learn so much about making sustainable choices about what we eat, how we travel, what we buy, and how we use products and protect our environment at the same time,” explains Allison
Stockel, Executive Director of The Ridgefield Playhouse.
This year’s Shakespeare-on-the-Green and Green Expo is made possible through the generous support of business partners including event title sponsor Collins Hannafin, P.C. as well as underwriters First Niagara Bank, The Altria Group, The O’Connell Family, Pure Leaf, Scott Schneider and Patricia Minskoff Breede, and is generously supported by Ally Bally Bee, Books on the Common, Bright Current, Bruce Bennett Nissan, Ann & Steve Carlson, Cultec, Inc., The Care of Trees, EasyCare Energy Solutions, LLC, The Gym of Ridgefield & Southbury, Pitney Bowes, Simpaug Farms, The Toy Chest and Trillium Architects with additional support from Country Brothers Emporium, Nature's Temptations, OLA Granola, The Bayou North Restaurant, The Ridgefield Playhouse Board of Directors, Venture Photography, Wellness Resource Showing Shaklee, Whistle Stop Bakery, Yogapata
of Wilton and Yoga Shala.
Directed by Russell Treyz, “All’s Well that Ends Well” is packed with hilarity, music and adventure and a young woman triumphing over adversities. The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival is a professional theatre troupe from New York who presents Shakespeare’s fable of the spunky, lovesick Helena and her pursuit of the fickle Bertram, a callow young man who prefers war and womanizing to romance and responsibility.
Some free tickets remain at First Niagara Bank (108 Danbury Rd., Ridgefield) with a limit of 5 tickets per family on a first come first served basis. Tickets previously reserved at the Playhouse box office will be held until 1 p.m. on August 10. A stand-by line will form on-site after 1 p.m. for unclaimed tickets.
For more information, visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a notfor-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.
