Performing Shakespearean plays alfresco is a world-wide summer ritual and a natural fit for the stunning outdoor beauty of Mammoth Lakes. For the past 16 years, with one skipped-year during Covid, local and visiting audiences have come together to enjoy Shakespeare under the stars. This year's production of KING LEAR is a bold, modern staging of Shakespeare’s devastating masterpiece — a gripping story of power, family, betrayal, and madness set against the breathtaking Eastern Sierra landscape.

This will be our 16th year performing Shakespeare under the stars. We hope you will join us!

Though everyone is welcome regardless of funds, this year we are encouraging everyone to reserve ahead. Click the link below to either buy $45 VIP tickets which includes priority seating and bottomless Prosecco OR TELL US YOUR COMING with a donation amount of your choosing, even $0 is acceptable. Either way, your name goes into our nightly drawing for a chance to win a prize.Notes from the Director…The tragedy of King Lear is about an aging monarch who divides his kingdom among his daughters based on flattery, disowning the honest Cordelia. Elder daughters Goneril and Regan betray him, causing Lear to go mad while a fierce storm rages. Set in a present day alternate reality where only a handful of leaders control the entire human population and the world has become a capitalist technocracy completely reliant and slave to industry and development. The play asks the question: What is nature? And how much should we or do we even care about it? Like our planet, is human connection and authenticity worth saving? 

—-Directed by Aurora Donaldson