Alabama Shakespeare Festival Review

Always see great plays here. My only complaint is the lack of leg room in the majority of seats.

A great place for walking, picnics, or just feeding the ducks. Great family time

STELLAR performance, as always. Montgomery is incredibly fortunate to be the home of such a professional theater experience! Alabama Shakespeare Festival is top notch theater.

It is always an all around amazing time at ASF! They have specials throughout the year for discounted ticket prices. The acting is always superb.

Simply amazing! You owe it to yourself and those you love to go see a play at ASF.

Nice envioronnent and music. Family friendly venue.

The recent performance of Annie at ASF was superb, on par or above that staged in New York or elsewhere. The actors, the direction and production, the music, the venue and the personnel there were just first-class in every way.

A great place to take the kids and the dogs to let them run.

Christmas outing with friends. All is Calm was fantastic. WWI Christmas truce complete with a Capella mastery, poetry, and soldiers' accounts of humanity during war.

I enjoyed watching FLY about the Tuskegee airmen at ASF. The people were friendly and helpful.

A stellar performance by the cast together and individually!

The theater-in-the-round concept was awesome.

So appreciated the set and costumes - great 80 s detail!

Big NO-N0: About 30 minutes into the production the staff seated 6-8 late-comers in the 3rd row! It was a HUGE distraction to ASF-1st timers-from Birmingham who were seated directly to our left. I cannot fathom how distracting it might have been to the actors.

These Season-Subscribers are looking forward to September. Thanks for a great evening!

A jewel of Montgomery! It is a must stop if you are visiting for any length of time. They also host summer camps for the kiddos that gives them a chance to be in the spotlight and taste theater life. They host other events throughout the year like the Christmas Tree Lighting. They are other events that happen on their lawn too from a Montgomery Ballet preformance to the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra's Broadway Under the Stars. Even when there's nothing going on they have an herb garden often open for visitors to view and available for weddings. It's grounds are great for Wedding, Engagement, Prom, Graduation, and Senior photos as well as for photographers and artists as subjects for their artwork. It comprises only a part of Winton Blount Cultural Park which includes the free Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and the Dog Park. Come by and check it out!

The Play NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN was Awesome, also Fri FOUR LITTLE GIRLS Was Excellent also GO SEE IT,

We went there to see a production of Sound of Music. The building is lovely. It was clean and the staff were very helpful. And it was decorated for Christmas as well. A definite asset for the city if Montgomery.

Fantastic performances and venue. They also offer excellent acting camps for kids.

Shouts out to Sista Strut 12 Oct 2019! Had a really great time, 1st Lady from 104.3 was a joy! Thanks to all who participated and survivors, God bless you all!

This is a great place. Everyone should see a play here at least once!

Very cool facility and the performance was pretty strong too.

Absolutely love the walks that I take at the park whether by myself or with my coworkers. Very peacefu.

excellent place for a show, which was amazing, its also a very nice walk around afterwards

On site restaurant, great staff, great selection of performances

Love this place! It s a great time for friends and for family. I love the openness!!! My kids loved to play out front with the ducks. I have had some wonderful experiences here.

Nice setting great for walking people friendly environment

So nice making out by the pond in this beautiful weather. I really enjoyed myself at 12:40am .. happy guy here

Saw "Twelfth Knight," and enjoyed every second of it. A brilliant and skillfully executed interpretation, it won't be the last I see from this troupe.

Enjoyed some sun in the park, also went and saw the herb garden. Beautiful!

I haven't seen a single mistake, it wight as well be called perfect.

World class theater! Have enjoyed every show I have seen through the years and the prices are very reasonable for the quality received

Great facility! Beautiful grounds, building and nice people...my only complaint is the signage to get in needs light and more signs!

We always have a good experience at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

Great experience though I would love to see better upkeep.

It was absolutely fantastic! Kudos to the actors and the entire production team.

Saw the Gospel of Luke in the Octagon Theater. Excellent production.

I saw the production of Sound of Music today and I loved it. It was great.

My friends and I have had many opportunities to see plays in both the Festival and Octagon Theaters. Both have comfy seats, just not much leg room. There aren t really any bad seats in either. There is ADA accessibility throughout. The restrooms are ample and kept clean. There are beverage/snack bars available, and a gift shop. The grounds around the theatre are well kept and a joy to ride through.

Outstanding performance of The Sound of Music. I had never seen it - live or recorded - and am happy for my first experience of it to be at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Although this was not my first visit, it was my daughter's, and it will not be the last for either of us!

Very organized people are so friendly and so helpful. We are fortunate to have Alabama Shakespeare.

We saw the play " Sugar Magnolia". It was a small intimate theater. The production was professional and the cast was top notch. Highly recommend this to everyone.

I just saw a production of "Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963". Looking forward to seeing "Nina Simone: Four Women" soon.

It is a quiet place highly recommended to exercise and spend relaxed time or take pictures

I could only look at the park, had an event with children and could not enter.

The Alabama Shakespeare festival is wonderful, but the booking staff for school trips is under new management. The reservation we made were "lost" we when got there. We were thr last to be seated, ans we were not given priority seating for having registered early as we had been given for years under new management. The shows are amazing, but the management needs a lesson in organization and manners

World-class, professional year round theatre that rivals anything produced in New York, Chicago or L.A. A vital part of the local community, this will place will blow you away!

Fun-filled place good for family and friends and fun!!

I saw Romeo and Juliet and it was very good, the actors quickly shift the mood from funny to sad

The play was magical, the seats however were a little uncomfortable

Very professional theatre group found in a surprising location.

Every Montgomery man, woman, son & daughter should take pride in the not-so-widely-known fact it is our fair city (ahem) our Capital of Dreams who has graciously hosted as the permanent home of the Shakespeare Festival since it s move in 1985 to Montgomery from Anniston where first founded in 1972 and despite several doubtful skeptics, is where it grew to garner critical acclaim though sadly lacked financial support necessary to keep it afloat. It is with much thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Winton Blount and their generosity gift of creating what in 1985 valued at $21.5-million performing-arts complex set on 250-acres of landscaped park open to the public, the Winton M. Blount Cultural Park. The Carolyn Blount Theatre stands grandly though looks nestled neatly into the rolling hills of this lovely park yet still seats 792 for the main Festival Stage & seats an additional 225 in the secondary Octagon Theatre. Most importantly it is because of this outstanding gift of culture & community that has made Montgomery the proud & picturesque third largest Shakespearean theatre in the world today.

it's a great place for kids and adults to visit for little to no money and we definitely support the Alabama Shakespeare Festival

The production of Annie was incredible. From the acting to the music to the stage props, everything was top notch.