Blackfriars Cultural Arts

Please join us for a socially-distanced performance of The Tempest on Saturday, September 18 at 1:00 p.m. at St. Patrick's Church in Glen Cove.

Coming soon:

"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises..."

Our tenth annual Shakespeare play, Twelfth Night, will be performed on Labor Day, September 7, 2020, in Glen Cove, NY. The performance is free, and we would love to have you in the audience! If you would like to attend, please message us for details so we can control the number attending.

Meet some of the Cast of the Blackfriars' 2020 production of Twelfth Night!

The Blackfriars are proud to announce their participation in BIANYS' (the Brain Injury Association of New York's) annual March for Brain Injury.

Please join us in the March on September 12, 2020 or donate at our fundraising page:

Sophia Scarpa - March On for Brain Injury 2020 Long Island Hi! I'm Sophia Scarpa. I'm happy to announce I am the Team Captain of Blackfriars for the 2020 March On for Brain Injury event being held in Long Island. This is my fund raising page. I'd greatly appreciate your generosity! I'm asking you to please help me support Brain Injury Association of New Yor...

Working hard on Twelfth Night with socially distanced rehearsals.

A great big THANK YOU to the Globe Theatre for providing access to their performance of Romeo and Juliet for free to enjoy while the world shelters at home.

Romeo and Juliet (2009) for Free | Globe Player | Shakespeare's Globe Watch Romeo and Juliet for free, with Ellie Kendrick and Adetomiwa Edun as the star-crossed lovers, filmed from Shakespeare’s most famous stage, the Globe Th...

Coming soon: Twelfth Night.

How they all started. Blackfriars' 2010 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Joseph Scarpa as Puck, Quinn Theobald as Oberon, Theresa Mladinich as Helena, Sophia Scarpa as Titania, Bernadette Gunther as the wall, and Neil Gunther rocking the donkey head as Nick Bottom.

On this day eight years ago, the Blackfriars took the stage for their first performance, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

Comedy of Errors. August 2019.