What Has Shake Performed?
Shake on the Lake has been entertaining audiences throughout Western New York since 2012 and on tour since 2015. Shake started in 2012 with 4 performances in 1 venue and now performs throughout Western New York and the Finger Lakes and in Central Arkansas.
Comprehensive list of Shake’s seasons:
An Improvised Christmas Carol
The Comedy of Errors
The Ugly Duckling by Katie Campbell
2014: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Silver Lake, NY)
The Tempest (First Summer Tour)
Expert’s Guide to Shakespeare (Perry Central School Groundlings Company)
Shakespeare in Space (Perry Central School Groundlings Company)
2017: Romeo & Juliet (Point Breeze at Lake Ontario, Kent, NY)
The New York State Puppet Festival
Improv@37
A Christmas Carol (Winter Season)
2019: As You Like It (Silver Lake, NY)
The New York State Puppet Festival at Home (Online)
The (Socially Distant) Sea Serpent Puppet Parade
Improv@37
A Christmas Carol Podcast
Play Makes Place: A decade of Shake on the Lake (at the Arts Council for Wyoming County)
The Sea Serpent Puppet Parade
MxBeth (Arkansas)
Improv@37
A Christmas Carol Podcast (Remix)
MxBeth (Summer Tour)
The New York State Puppet Festival
The Sea Serpent Puppet Parade
Pippin (education programming in partnership with Perry Central School’s Drama Club)
Improv@37
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Summer Tour) (Co-Production with Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre) (New York and Arkansas)
Into the Woods (education programming in partnership with Perry Central School’s Drama Club)
Improv@37
Henry V (Summer Tour) (New York and Arkansas)
The New York State Puppet Festival
Mean Girls (education programming in partnership with Perry Central School’s Drama Club)
First Fridays: Shakespeare Reading Club, Act III Short Programs, The Nameless Club
Tenth Summer Tour
The Tempest (Summer Tour) (New York and Arkansas)
First Fridays: Shakespeare Reading Club, Act III Short Program, The Nameless Club, Puppet Slam
2025: The Tempest (St. Joseph’s Park, Rochester, NY)
Where has Shake Performed?
Comprehensive List of Communities where Shake’s summer tour has been performed from 2015 to present:
New York State
Silver Lake (Perry/Castile), New York
Angelica
Arcade
Attica
Batavia
Brockport
Dansville
Darien Lakes State Park
East Aurora
Ellicottville
Geneseo
Hamburg
Kent (Point Breeze)
Letchworth State Park
Linwood Gardens
Lyndonville
Middlesex
Mt. Morris
Naples
Niagara Falls Air Force Base
Pavilion
Rochester
Springville
Wellsville
Arkansas
Little Rock
Conway
Russellville
New York State Puppet Festival
Buffalo (2018)
How to Book Shake's Summer Tour
Want to bring fun, fast, physical performances to your community? Shake tours in both Arkansas and Upstate New York (with a focus on Western New York and the Finger Lakes). The company specializes in rural and underserved communities.
Shake brings the set, sound, and actors – you just need to provide electricity!
Please email Linda Franke, Executive Director (lfranke@shakeonthelake.org) to learn more about booking and fees to bring Shake to your community!
And don’t forget our educational programming!
Shake on the Lake hosts educational programming at K-12 schools through our Groundlings Programs. Classes and workshops can be a day or several weeks.
Please reach out to Linda Franke, Executive Director (lfranke@shakeonthelake.org) to learn more or book our educational programming.
