Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the State's theater, builds community by engaging, entertaining, and inspiring people with transformative theatrical performances and compelling educational and community programs. Each year, some 100,000 people — nearly half of them students — visit our stages to see classics, Shakespeare, contemporary plays, musicals, and new works. We serve our community by staging productions that recognize its diversity of people, cultures, and ideas. When the pandemic halted our season, we found new ways to serve: producing online performances and workshops — including a series of original works by Southern playwrights — and constructing masks for local organizations and healthcare facilities.