Production History

Advice To The Players was founded in the Spring of 1999 by Caroline Nesbitt. Beginning with a March production of Othello and continuing the next year with Much Ado About Nothing (2000), programming expanded over the years to include our celebrated outdoor Summer productions at the Sandwich Fairgrounds Stage in Sandwich, NH, beloved performances of A Christmas Carol at The Barnstormers Theatre in Tamworth, NH, as well as our Education initiatives that have brought the joy of Shakespeare to an entire generation of area youth.

We continue to mount two full-scale productions in the Summer and Spring, as well as additional “second-stage” offerings during our Summer season. We offer classes, camps, and workshops during the Summer and Winter.

Production History

March 1999 – Othello
March 2000 – Much Ado About Nothing
December 2000 – A Christmas Carol
March 2001 – Romeo & Juliet
August 2002 – As You Like It
December 2002 – A Christmas Carol
March 2003 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
August 2003 – The Comedy of Errors
December 2003 – A Christmas Carol
March 2004 – Hamlet
August 2004 – Much Ado About Nothing (NH Theatre Award Best Actor Winner: Heather Hamilton as Beatrice)
December 2004 – A Christmas Carol
March 2005 – The Tempest (NH Theatre Award for General Excellence)
August 2005 – Love’s Labour’s Lost (NH Theatre Award for General Excellence)
December 2005 – The Pirates of Penzance
March 2006 – Romeo and Juliet (NH Theatre Award Best Actor Winner: Jean Mar Brown as Nurse)
August 2006 – Twelfth Night
December 2006 – H.M.S. Pinafore
March 2007 – Macbeth
August 2007 – As You Like It (NH Theatre Award Best Actor Winners: Candace Clift as Rosalind & Miranda Posner as Celia)
December 2007 – A Christmas Carol
March 2008 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
August 2008 – The Taming of the Shrew
December 2008 – A Christmas Carol
March 2009 – Henry V (NH Theatre Award for General Excellence)
August 2009 – The Winter’s Tale (NH Theatre Award for General Excellence)
October 2009 – The Life & Death of that Dastardly Villain Richard III
December 2009 – A Christmas Carol
March 2010 – Hamlet
August 2010 – The Comedy of Errors
October 2010 – The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus & Thisby
March 2011 – Othello
August 2011 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
March 2012 – The Merchant of Venice
August 2012 – The Two Gentlemen of Verona
March 2013 – Julius Caesar (NH Theatre Award Best Actor Winner: Angela Hope Smith as Gaius Cassius)
August 2013 – Much Ado About Nothing
March 2014 – Richard III
August 2014 – The Merry Wives of Windsor
March/April 2015 – Romeo and Juliet
July/August 2015 – Twelfth Night
March/April 2016 – Hamlet
July 2016 – The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]
August 2016 – The Tempest
March/April 2017 - Macbeth
July 2017 - Wittenberg
August 2017 - Henry IV (all the good bits)
March 2018 - King Lear
July 2018 - The Taming
August 2018 - Love's Labour's Lost (NH Theatre Award Best Supporting Actor Winner: Johnny Segalla as Don Armado)
December 2018 - Twelfth Night
March 2019 - The Taming of the Shrew
July 2019- Shakespeare & The Language that Shaped a World
August 2019- Measure for Measure
December 2019- Twelfth Night
March 2020- Winter's Tale
August 2020- As You Like It
August 2020- Noir Hamlet
December 2020- Twelfth Night
March 2021- A Midsummer Night's Dream
July 2021- The Ballad of Daphnis and Chloe
August 2021- Comedy of Errors
December 2021- Twelfth Night
July 2022- Merchant of Venice Beach
August 2022- All's Well That Ends Well
September 2022- Henry V
August 2023 - War of the Roses: She-wolves and Queens
August 2023 - An Iliad
September 2023 - Much Ado About Nothing

Awards & Reviews

New Hampshire Theatre Awards:

2004 – Heather Hamilton, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing
2005 – Love’s Labour’s Lost, General Excellence
2006 – Jean Mar Brown, the Nurse in Romeo & Juliet
2007 – Candace Clift, Rosalind in As You Like It,
Miranda Posner, Celia in As You Like It
2008 - Caroline Nesbitt, Excellence in Children’s Theatre
2009 – Henry V & The Winter’s Tale, General Excellence
2013 – Angela Smith, Cassius in Julius Caesar
2018 - Johnny Segalla, Don Armado in Love's Labour's Lost

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As a non-profit, we rely on the generous support of our patrons in order to offer and expand our award-winning programs, including classes, workshops, and Summer camps, as well as full-scale professional productions of Shakespeare’s plays.

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Advice To The Players is a unique company of theater professionals, enthusiastic community members and energetic teens that has been performing Shakespeare and offering workshops in New Hampshire's Lakes and Mountains Region since 1999. Advice To The Players is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit committed to arts, education and community engagement.

Advice To The Players is located in N’dakinna [in-DAH-kee-NAH], which is the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Abenaki, Pennacook and Wabanaki Peoples past and present. We recognize the dispossession, erasure and invisibilization, and resiliency of these and all Indigenous Peoples. We honor their elders, past, present, and emerging, and are grateful to be guests amongst the aki (land), nibi (water), olakwikak (flora), and awaasak (fauna).

Contact:
[email protected]
PO Box 38, Center Sandwich, NH 03227
(603) 996-3912

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