It makes our toes just tingle thinking about settling into the Schaeffer Theater at Bates and Callahan Hall, Lewiston Public Library to watch the three upcoming Aquila Theatre Company performance at the end of this month!! Aquila Theatre is the creme de la creme of classic theatre, presenting an array of some of our most beloved performances. 
On par for September are Cyrano de Bergerac on September 27 and The Taming of the Shrew on the 29th. Cyrano de Bergerac is a classic tale of unrequited love, and the Taming of the Shrew a battle of the sexes. September 28 in collaboration with Art Walk Lewiston Auburn is Ancient/Greeks Modern Lives: Poetry: Drama: Dialogue. Ancient Greek literature is modernized through dramatic reading and discussion.
A pre-show discussion for Cyrano de Bergerac and The Taming of the Shrew will take place at 630pm the night of each performance in the Bates Chapel, 275 College St. Lewiston. The Cyrano de Bergerac pre-show discussion will be facilitated by a company actor and the Taming of the Shrew pre-show discussion will be facilitated by a noted local scholar. Pre-show performance discussions are free.
Learn more about all of these great events on our Arts Calendar page.
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Aquila’s mission is simple yet very ambitious – to bring the greatest works to the greatest number. They believe passionately that everyone should be afforded the opportunity to engage with classical drama of the highest quality at an affordable price right in their own communities, experience arts from other places and exchange ideas, discuss and explore these works in an accessible and exciting format.
Based in New York City since 1999, Aquila has gone on to win popular, critical and academic acclaim worldwide and regularly appears at international festivals with performances in places as diverse as Carnegie Hall, the Ancient Stadium at Delphi, the Los Angeles Cathedral Plaza and the White House. They are determined to bring the works of Shakespeare, ancient Greek playwrights, adaptations of both these and new American classics to vivid life and to help make theatergoing part of the fabric of American cultural life. Aquila presents a season of classical plays in New York at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, tours nationwide to between 50-70 cities per year and provides the following extensive educational programming.
Learn More: Aquila Theatre Co.