Sponsored: Visit the Utah Shakespeare Festival

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The Utah Shakespeare Festival is a regional Tony-Award winning professional repertory theatre company that produces Shakespeare, classical drama, comedies, and musicals. Other related activities include three different Greenshows, play orientations, seminars, educational opportunities such as classes and Camp Shakespeare, backstage tours, Words Cubed new play series, and a Shakespeare-in-the-Schools tour. Eight plays are performed in rotation in two state-of-the-art indoor theatres, as well as an outdoor theatre resembling an Elizabethan playhouse. The season begins the end of June and runs through mid-October each year. Founded in 1961, it is one of the oldest and largest Shakespearean festivals in North America.

The Festival is located at the Beverley Center for the Arts in Cedar City, Utah, a community of approximately 28,000 people, and is within a day’s drive of seven national parks and numerous national and state forests, monuments, and recreation areas. Via Interstate-15, it is two and a half hours northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and three and a half hours south of Salt Lake City, Utah. The Festival is located on and around the Southern Utah University campus. Its annual budget is nearly $7 million and it attracts approximately 130,000 guests each year.

Tickets for the 2019 season are on sale now! It will run June 27 to October 12. The season features Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and The Conclusion of Henry VI: Parts Two and Three. Additionally, the audience favorite Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Arthur Miller’s The Price, the comedic The Book of Will, and the poignant Every Brilliant Thing will also be produced.

Tickets are available by calling the ticket office at (800) PLAYTIX or online at bard.org.

Lead image: Rob Riordan (left) as Ellard Simms, Colleen Baum as Betty Meeks, Michael Doherty as Charlie Baker, and Katie Fay Francis as Catherine Simms in the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2018 production of The Foreigner. (Photo by Karl Hugh. Copyright Utah Shakespeare Festival 2018.)
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