Sponsored: The Utah Shakespeare Festival enjoys its 61st Season

Welcome to the 2022 Season of the Utah Shakespeare Festival! The Festival’s 61st season has begun in beautiful Cedar City and runs through October 8. Guests can enjoy plays, musicals, comedies, and dramas, plus Greenshows and other Festival experiences.

The theatrical offerings include three Shakespeare plays, two musicals, three contemporary plays, and three Greenshows, all performed on our four distinct stages. Productions in the open-air Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre will delight and awe guests. This season patrons can choose from Shakespeare’s stormiest tragedy, King Lear, or his rarely performed comedy, All’s Well That Ends Well set in 1940s France and Italy. In addition, for the first time in Festival history, theatre-goers have the opportunity to enjoy a musical - Sondheim’s masterpiece Sweeney Todd - in this state-of-the-art outdoor space.

In the lovely indoor Randall L. Jones Theatre, catch the hilarious whodunnit play Clue, fall in love with the Von Trapp Family Singers in the beloved musical The Sound of Music, or enjoy the satirical backstage drama Trouble in Mind. If a more intimate theatre setting is your preference, be sure to get tickets for the contemporary setting of Shakespeare’s most imaginative romance, The Tempest, and the one-man historical drama, Thurgood, both in the Eileen and Allen Anes Studio Theatre.

Celebrate on the green each evening before the mainstage shows. Three distinct Greenshows invite guests to prepare for the evening plays with this year’s themes: “The Last Time I Saw Paris,” “British Music Hall,” and “Coronation Day.” These thirty-minute performances are free and fun for the whole family, with music, dancing, storytelling, and audience participation.

If guests would like to add even more to their experience, don’t forget about Festival seminars, orientations, Repertory Magic, Words Cubed new play series, and art exhibitions at the Southern Utah Museum of Art located right next to the Festival. And don’t forget our famous tarts before your show! For those interested in the beautiful surrounding areas of Cedar City, be sure to check out all the National Parks and Monuments that are only short distances away, such as Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon, and Cedar Breaks. Local restaurants, museums, parks, events, and recreation areas also add to our guests’ visits.

For more information or to purchase Festival tickets, visit bard.org or call 800-PLAYTIX. #utahshakes