SubscribeSeason53 | Alabama Shakespeare Festival
1.334.271.5353 [email protected]

Season 53 - 2024-2025 graphic title, show names filling text

Subscribe to THE 2024–25 SEASON

When you subscribe to the our season, you support ASF’s mission to build community by bringing world-class transformative stories to the stage — and you have a great time doing it! This season is packed with wonderful shows, and it’s never been easier to subscribe with flexible packages that start at just $100 and an easy payment plan*.

The Seven-Show Full Season Subsciption gets you preferred seats for all the shows at the best prices with the most benefits.

The Five-Show Subscription gives you a choice of shows with preferred seats, great savings, and .

The Three-Show Family Subscription Package bundles the family favorites A Christmas Carol, Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, and The Wizard of Oz for fun, memorable entertainment and savings, with packages starting at just $78.

By subscribing, you demonstrate your support for Alabama Shakespeare Festival and powerful stories that transform and inspire.

*Split your subscription payment: 50% at booking and 50% in 30 days. Just ask our Box Office agents or select that option in your cart when you subscribe online.

(Scroll down for show descriptions.) 

21-22 Subscriber Benefits

SubscribeR Benefits

  • Big savings on tickets — Up to 35%!
  • Unlimited free exchange privileges*
  • Invitations to special events
  • Half off youth tickets**^ 
  • Discounted adult add-on tickets^
  • Easy 2-payment options***
  • Save 20% on Youth & Adult Classes and Camps^^
* Exchange performances for a production only; not applicable for performances of different productions. Exchanges must be made at least 24 hours prior to the purchased performance.
** Youth tickets apply to ages 7 – 17; Babes in arms and children under the age of 5 are not admitted to the theatre unless otherwise noted in our production age recommendations. All children must have a ticketed seat.
^ Only with 7-Show and 3-Show packages and added at time of package purchase. The 7–Show adult add-on discount is 25%; 3-Show adult add-on discount is 15%.
*** The deadline for the 7-Show package is 10/13/24. The deadline for the 5-Show package is 2/23/25. The deadline for 3-Show package is 4/26/25.

To order your subscription by phone, call or visit the ASF Box Office.
334-271-5353 | 1 Festival Dr., Montgomery, AL, 36117

Season 53 Productions

DEAR JACK, DEAR LOUISE

DEAR JACK, DEAR LOUISE

By Ken Ludwig
Joyous Biographical Love Story (Ages 10+)
Octagon Stage | September 26–October 13

U.S. Army Captain Jack Ludwig, a military doctor stationed in Oregon, and Louise Rabiner, an aspiring actress and dancer in New York City, meet by letter. They hope to meet in person someday. But the war threatens to keep them apart.

CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL

CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Adapted by Rick Dildine
Family Holiday Tradition (Ages 5+)
Festival Stage | November 21–December 29, 2024

ASF’s full production returns with miserly Ebenezer Scrooge’s overnight voyage of epic proportions begins. Journey with Scrooge as he learns from his ghosts (and Bob, Tiny Tim, and the Cratchits) a heartwarming lesson in forgiveness and the change we can make around us.

THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM

THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM

Adapted by Cheryl West
Based on the book The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Hilarious & Moving Drama (Ages 10+)
Octagon Stage | February 6–23, 2025

Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson family of Flint, Michigan. Momma and Dad decide it’s time for Kenny’s teenage brother to have a lengthy stay with strict Grandma Sands in Birmingham, Alabama, and the family heads south — toward a deadly, defining moment in American history.

SHERWOOD: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

SHERWOOD: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

By Ken Ludwig
Adventurous & Funny Heroic Folktale (Ages 10+)
Festival Stage | March 13–April 6, 2025

A fun-loving young man comes face to face with the kind of greed and inhumanity that won’t let him sleep at night. Suddenly he’s an outlaw hiding in Sherwood Forest where he joins up with a band of followers including Little John, Friar Tuck, and a feisty adventuress, Maid Marian.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET

ByWilliam Shakespeare
Revenge Tragedy (Ages 12+)
Festival Stage | April 17–May 4, 2025

When Prince Hamlet’s father, the king of Denmark, suddenly dies, Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, marries his uncle Claudius, who becomes the new king. A spirit claiming to be the ghost of Hamlet’s father says Claudius murdered him and demands that Hamlet avenge his death. Is it really his father’s spirit? Is revenge is the right decision?

KUDZU CALLING*

KUDZU CALLING*

By Donnetta Lavinia Grays
Lyrical Southern Celebration (Ages 17+)
Octagon Stage | May 29–June 8, 2025

This interweaving of poems and moments seeks to expand and complicate the Southern narrative – a celebration of Black Southern love, queerness, playfulness, culture, and spirituality. It is the playwright’s love letter to the place that made her.
*World Premiere

THE WIZARD OF OZ

THE WIZARD OF OZ

By L. Frank Baum
With Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg | Background Music by Herbert Stothart
Thrills & Music for the Family (Ages 5+)
Festival Stage | July 9–August 17, 2025

Follow the yellow brick road in this delightful stage adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s beloved tale, featuring the iconic musical score from the MGM film. The timeless tale, in which young Dorothy Gale travels from Kansas over the rainbow to the magical Land of Oz, is a thrill for audiences of all ages.

SUBSCRIBE NOW TO SAVE AND SUPPORT THE SEASON

Call the ASF Box Office
334-271-5353

Thank you to all our Season Sponsors, including: