4 Ways to Help the Michigan Shakespeare Festival

At all of our performances this summer, we received inquiries about how to help the MSF continue to produce

our summer season, our Tour, our readings, and our other offerings.

We thank everyone who asked!

AND the answer is to help us out with one or more of these four things:

1. The very best thing you can do for us is to purchase tickets for our 2027 Season:

Our Date Night Sale is on now - 2 season passes, 8 total tickets, at our best price.

Or One Season Flex-Pass (you don't need to know the dates now...)

2. If you saw the shows this summer, please take a moment to reach out to everyone you know and let them know about us. Let them know how wonderful the

shows are, how comfortable and lovely the theatre is, how fun the neighborhood

is - restaurants and bars and other arts offering.

In other words - introduce your friends to the Michigan Shakespeare Festival.

Your good word of mouth is our best advertising.

If you're active on social media, connect to us, reference us, share the good word.

If you're comfortable being quoted, please reach out with a testimonial to

GM@michiganshakespearefestival.com.

3. Like all non-profit organizations, our Board of Directors is what keeps us running; and like all non-profit organizations, we are always looking for Board Members.

A Board of Directors of a non-profit hire the c-level staff, monitor the calendars and finances, and get to follow the artistic happenings of the Festival.

They meet once-a-month by Zoom and are integral to the organization.

If you have any interest in being a member of the Board, or know someone who

might be, check out our Board Membership page for more information.

Or Email GM@MichiganShakespeareFestival.com to start a conversation.

Or Call 517.998.3673 and leave a message, our Board Chairs will get back to you.

4. Donate.

We know. Every arts organization, every public charity, every political campaign is asking for donations - and every one of them is important.

There's an apocryphal story our AD likes to tell (and yes, she always says it's

apocryphal) that some MPs went to Churchill during WWII and said they were

going to need to cut any and all arts funding to make sure the money went to the

war effort.

According to the story, Churchill's response was "Then what are we fighting for?"

The MSF has an egalitarian and living wage structure. All of our artists - actors,

directors, designers, techs, production assistance - earn similar weekly amounts and while it's not luxurious, it's a living wage. That means our artists are able to pay rent, buy groceries, and support local businesses - keeping the economy humming.

Your donation helps make that possible.

Before Covid, MSF was able to exist at a 70/30 (tickets/donations) level - but that's been harder since then. Any donation you're able to make means we're able to support our artists and continue to produce professional, top quality, classical theatre. Please, if you can, donate to the MSF:

These are the things you can do to help us to continue to produce our amazing, professional classical theatre.

And thank you.