The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, in Montgomery is a fully professional regional theatre that produces around ten productions each season with a primary focus on Shakespeare’s plays. The company however also produces musicals, children’s theater and American classics. Each year the production company will present top-notch performances.

When not performing the Bard’s classics, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival can be found bringing the works of such playwrights as George Bernard Shaw, Tennessee Williams, and many others to life. The Shakespeare Gardens is also worth a visit. The garden, only one of seven such gardens in the United States, is located within the Blount Cultural ParkThe Shakespeare Garden contains plants and flowers featured in Shakespeare’s plays.