Since the completion of the film, in addition to their studies, the Hobart Shakespeareans have performed for teacher groups in Ohio, Louisiana, Arizona, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.

April 2005	The kids performed The Taming of the Shrew for the entire month. They also performed for teachers in Columbus, Ohio.
May 2005	The cast spent 10 days in Washington, DC. In addition to seeing the traditional sights, the kids watched a terrific version of The Tempest at The Shakespeare Theater. They performed for Stanford students who are interning in the nation's capital.
June 2005	Rafe's former students will be coming with him to visit colleges. Yale, Brown, Vassar, Cornell, NYU, and Columbia are on the list. After the college trip, 40 former students will be spending 10 days at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. They will be performing for teachers and some of the Festival's actors. Richard III, Love's Labor's Lost, and Twelfth Night are among some of the 8 plays the students will watch.
July 2005	The new class of Hobart Shakespeareans begins. During the summer months, the new students will get plenty of help from former students who volunteer to work during the summer. The new class will begin work on Love's Labor's Lost.
August 2005	Hobart Shakespeareans will be performing in Dallas, El Paso, and several locations in California.
September 2005	The Saturday program for former students begins. They will study for college entrance exams and Shakespeare as well. They will be visiting California colleges such as Stanford, Berkeley, and Pomona during the year as well as colleges in the Chicago area such as Northwestern. In June 2006, these students will be traveling to England and the Netherlands as well as The Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
2006	The current crop of fifth graders will be performing in New York in February and Texas in March.

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