Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras, a bilingual musical, will run July 17- Aug 3 at Rockwood Park as part of Delaware Shakespeare Summer Festival. (Photo courtesy delshakes)

Delaware Shakespeare brings bilingual musical to Rockwood Park

Claudia EstradaCulture, Arts & Entertainment, Delaware Arts, Events, Headlines, Town Square Live

WILMINGTON— Delaware Shakespeare is reimagining a comedy favorite with Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras, a bilingual musical adaptation set to run July 17 through August 3 at Rockwood Park as part of the 2025 Summer Festival.  The production blends English, Spanish, and “Fake-speare,” combining Shakespeare’s classic language with vibrant original music and Latin American influences. The story follows Venezuelan …

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Rockwood Park and Museum asks what it should be and do

Ken MammarellaCulture, Headlines

Rockwood Park and Museum, for the first time in its five-decade history as a New Castle County park, is developing a strategic plan. “This plan is helping the museum to visualize a new mission to be of service to a wider variety of our neighbors,” said Ryan Grover, who’s been directing Rockwood for just over two years. When interviewing for …

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Haunted trails of Rockwood feature 170 year-old garden

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Haunted Trails of Rockwood Sunday, October 1 through Tuesday, October 31 Rockwood Park & Museum, Wilmington, DE 302-761-4340 FREE Spooky lighting display of Rockwood’s Heritage Garden The twists and bends of Rockwood’s 170 year-old garden paths are lit with dramatic lighting for the haunted holiday. Joseph Shipley built the important six-acre English style garden to surround the quintessentially spook-tacular Gothic …

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Haunted Trails of Rockwood

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Haunted Trails of Rockwood October 1, 2023 The twists and bends of Rockwood’s 170 year-old garden paths are lit with dramatic lighting for the haunted holiday.This post was originally published on this site

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Rockwood’s new Goth Ball to usher in spooky season

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

Rockwood Park and Museum will kick off its panoply of Halloween and paranormal events with its first Goth Ball, set for Sept. 29. “We’ve been leaning into our Best of Delaware status for paranormal tours – adding October programs like the haunted trails, oddities tour and the Revisionists in 2022 and 2023,” said Rockwood director Ryan Grover. “But the Goth …

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Delaware Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ comes to Rockwood this week

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

Delaware Shakespeare returns to Rockwood Park this month with the three witches taking on a more central role than usual. “The witches enjoy chaos as a tool for learning,” said AZ Espinoza, who returns to DelShakes to direct the Scottish play, in a press release. “They lean into the power of the natural world to seek balance and to remind …

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Faerie Festival at Rockwood September 24

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Faerie Festival at Rockwood The Faerie Festival at Rockwood is a magical day celebrating childhood imagination! Children and adults enjoy live performances by the area’s premier dance and theatre companies, with outdoor games, Tinkertown, a variety of faerie crafts, storytimes, costume parades, and more. Also, vendors sell faerie wares and delicious food. Over 3,000 people attended Faerie Fest in 2022! …