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.
