Leadership at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival says money from COVID based American Rescue Plan will not be used during a planned renovation. The Festival is undergoing a $1.6 million facelift in advance of its 50th season. The theater is upgrading an entrance lobby and enclosing an outdoor area. It's also adding restrooms, constructing a new gift shop and making other additions. The Montgomery-based theater received just over one million dollars in federal pandemic aid as part of the American Rescue Plan Act. The Festival says it hasn’t decided how to use the funding. The theater began in a high school auditorium in Anniston in 1972 and relocated to the capital in the 1980s.
Alabama Public Radio listeners visited the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in 2016 for a full length report on “Camp Shakespeare EXTREME.” Click below for that story.
