{"id":457713,"date":"2026-10-06T06:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457713\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:14:21","slug":"free-shakespeare-live-renfest-set-for-oct-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457713\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Shakespeare LIVE Renfest set for Oct. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON (KDAF) \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shakespearelive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Shakespeare LIVE<\/a> will host its inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shakespearelive.org\/renfest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Shakespeare LIVE RenFest<\/a> on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026, at the Levitt Pavilion in downtown Arlington, Texas. The free event will run from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will feature live entertainment, artisans, food trucks, theatrical performances and Renaissance-inspired festivities designed for audiences of all ages. Following the main event, Shakespeare LIVE will present a free performance of \u201cMacbeth\u201d at 7:00 p.m., intended for mature audiences.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place at 100 W Abram St in downtown Arlington. Organizers encourage attendees to wear costumes to the festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Participating artisans will sell handmade items including jewelry, pottery, leather goods, chain mail and weaponry. Featured craftsmen include Gerard\u2019s Wood Weapons, Milo Strawn \u2013 Leathersmith, Cici\u2019s House of Clay &amp; Pottery, Bug &amp; Bloom, Cumi\u2019s Gems, Patian Pottery, Until Darkness Creations, Dwarfmade Creations, Goblin Head Pottery, Rugged History Beard Co, Terra Haven Studio, Rae The Fae\u2019s Creations, Razorblade Art and Maltese Sultery and Trading.<\/p>\n<p>Food and beverage options will be provided by vendors including Big Tyme BBQ &amp; Turkey Legs, Fox &amp; Raven Meade, Los Concho Tacos, Little Dragon Boba, The Social Frozen Drinks, Cowboys Lemonaide and Mister Softee DFW.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors for the inaugural festival include the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation, Arlington Cultural Tourism Council, TotalEnergies, The Candelight Inn and Bonnie and Alan Petsche.<\/p>\n<p>All facts in this report were gathered by journalists employed by CW33.\u00a0Artificial intelligence tools were used to reformat\u00a0information\u00a0into a news article for our website. This report was edited and fact-checked by\u00a0CW33\u00a0staff before being published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON (KDAF) \u2014\u00a0Shakespeare LIVE will host its inaugural Shakespeare LIVE RenFest on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026, at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-457713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}