# CommShakes

- **Website:** <https://commshakes.org>
- **Primary alias:** `commshakes.org`
- **Founded:** 1996
- **Employees:** 2+
- **Location:** Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Company kind:** NON PROFIT

## Description

CommShakes is a brand dedicated to artistic excellence, accessibility, and education. With a mission to bring live theater to audiences throughout Greater Boston, they present plays of the highest artistic caliber that celebrate ideas and language, sparking dialogue around compelling issues of our time. Through their commitment to eliminating barriers, whether physical, economic, or cultural, they ensure that everyone has access to world-class performances. CommShakes also cultivates in young artists the value of community engagement and collaborates with educators to bring literature to life in the classroom. They believe in the power of live theater to engage diverse communities, celebrate our shared stories, and ignite conversations around important issues. At CommShakes, they recognize the power of Shakespeare's language, stories, characters, and themes, which bind us together in a shared cultural legacy that remains relevant today. Dedicated to artistic excellence, they collaborate with great artists to provide nurturing environments that foster creative ambitions. CommShakes believes in the transformative power of theater, education, and training, helping students and actors alike develop critical thinking skills, empathy, and personal resonance with great works of literature. By providing their staff and artists with the necessary resources for their best work, CommShakes ensures their long-term sustainability, thus creating powerful performances and transformative educational programs. With their Free Shakespeare on the Common event, now in its 27th season, CommShakes has become an annual Boston tradition, attracting record numbers of people to their professional productions of Shakespeare during the summer. Through their dedicated history and commitment, they have welcomed over 1.4 million audience members over the past 25 years. Join CommShakes in celebrating the power of theater and the enduring legacy of Shakespeare.

## Industries

- 🍿 Performing Arts _(under Arts and Entertainment)_
- 🍿 Arts and Entertainment

## Links

- [twitter](https://twitter.com/commshakes)
- [instagram](https://instagram.com/commshakes)
- [linkedin](https://linkedin.com/company/commonwealth-shakespeare-company)
- [facebook](https://facebook.com/commshakes)

## Logos & icons

- logo _(primary)_ — PNG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idOKTgL06Z/w/1201/h/450/theme/dark/logo.png?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1781407172547)
- icon _(primary)_ — JPEG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idOKTgL06Z/w/400/h/400/theme/dark/icon.jpeg?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1781407172675)

## Colors

| Name | Hex | Theme |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robin's Egg Blue | #08cbc4 | accent |
| Cherokee | #fdd79a | light |
| Affair | #744783 | dark |

## Fonts

- Alfa Slab One — asset _(google)_
- Raleway — asset _(google)_

## Imagery

- banner _(primary)_ — JPEG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idOKTgL06Z/w/1500/h/500/idq9DGjEe8.jpeg?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1781407172887)

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