The Aquila Theatre was founded in London in 1991 by Peter Meineck and has been based in New York City since 1999.[1][2] Aquila's mission is to bring the greatest theatrical works to the greatest number and present a regular season of plays in New York and at international festivals. Education programming is an important component of Aquila's mission. The Shakespeare Leaders is a bold and innovative program in Harlem, through which students learn and perform Shakespeare. Aquila provides access for people in under-served urban and rural communities, touring around seventy American towns and cities a year. Aquila is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organisation.[3]
The Aquila Theatre Company, formerly out of London, now based in New York, has made a name for itself by presenting classical theatre pieces in scaled-down versions that really don't lose much of their overall potency.
Touring theater groups in the United States are more likely to offer Andrew Lloyd Webber than Anton Chekhov. But a British company, based in South Carolina, of all places, is bucking the trend. For six seasons, The Aquila Theatre of London has staged tours of classical theater, bringing professional productions of works like "The Iliad" and "Julius Caesar" to towns where they might otherwise not be seen. Last year, the group presented ...