Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

Thank you, Milwaukee!

The inaugural season of free Shakespeare in the Park has been a huge success. The Tempest was booked solid for the entire run and played to full houses.

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Optimistically,
Susan Scot Fry, Managing Director and Ron Scot Fry, Artistic Director

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

- Peter Ustinov (1921 – 2004)

The freedom of invention …

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

The need for expression …

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is "man" himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

- Edward Steichen

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

- William Shakespeare

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