The Lewes Public Library presents SummerScape 2025, featuring fifteen live events in the library's new outdoor pavilion, celebrating performing arts, history, literature, and science!

Tonight the First State Ballet presents an Evening of New Works.

The region’s premiere ballet company, First State Ballet, brings its newest piece to our stage. A premiere Lewes happening!

First State Ballet Theatre is a performing arts organization dedicated to the idea that diversity strengthens our community. Their mission is to present ballet boldly to Delaware, enrich our community with live professional performances, inspire and educate dancers and audiences of the future, and connect local youth with a creative, inclusive movement experience.

For this event only, all seating will be on the grass surrounding the pavilion. Please bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on. No seating will be available under the pavilion.

NO REGISTRATION IS NECESSARY. In case of inclement weather, this performance will be cancelled.

SummerScape 2025 Schedule

Wednesday, June 11 | 7:00 PM | Serafin Ensemble presents Chamber Music | String Splendor – Haydn and Dvorák
Wednesday, June 18 | 7:00 PM | Serafin Ensemble presents Chamber Music | Bach and Beyond
Wednesday, June 25 | 7:00 PM | Serafin Ensemble presents Chamber Music | String Splendor – Czech This!
Wednesday, July 9 | 7:00 PM | Delaware Shakespeare Presents a Preview of Their New Musical Adaptation of Twelfth Night
Wednesday, July 16 | 7:00 PM | Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center Presents The Power of Harriet Tubman
Wednesday, July 23 | 7:00 PM | The Lewes Historical Society Presents Tavern Talks
Wednesday, July 30 | 7:00 PM | Singers and Songwriters Presents the Genius of Rodgers and Hammerstein
Wednesday, August 6 | 7:00 PM | Tales from the Shark Side | Professor Aaron Carlisle, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy
Wednesday, August 13 | 7:00 PM | Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence | Dr. Michael Redmond
Wednesday, August 20 | 7:00 PM | Delaware Center for the Inland Bays Presents Wild Wonders of the Inland Bays: Learn, Connect, Protect
Wednesday, August 27 | 7:00 PM | Jack Lewis, Lewes Artist of Renown | Alan Jensen, Lewes Historical Society
Wednesday, September 10 | 7:00 PM | First State Ballet Presents an Evening of New Works
Saturday, September 13 | 7:00 PM | Suzanne Savoy Presents the World Premiere of The Book of Poissy
Sunday, September 14 | 2:00 PM | Gerald Dickens and Suzanne Savoy Present A Child’s Journey with Dickens
Sunday, September 14 | 7:00 PM | Gerald Dickens Presents Nicholas Nickleby!

SummerScape 2025 is partially funded by the generous support of
Groome Church and Browseabout Books
LPL Braithwaite Endowment Fund, Coastal Concerts, M & T Charitable Foundation, and The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Becker Morgan Group, The Inn at Canal Square, and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group
Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on DelawareScene.com.