Return to the stages marks sixty years and will be dedicated to founder Fred C. Adams
“The 2021 season at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City will be like no other in our history,” said Executive Producer Frank Mack about the upcoming theatre season. “It is our sixtieth year, it is dedicated to our founder, Fred C. Adams, and it marks our return to producing after missing 2020. It will be a magnificent experience.”
The season will feature eight plays in three theatres, plus some of the extra “Festival Experience” traditions and activities guests have come to love over the last six decades: The Greenshow, play seminars, orientations, and numerous classes. And, it will be even more exciting because it marks the return of professional theatre to Cedar City after the Festival canceled its 2020 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to dedicating the season to him, the Festival is planning on a celebration in August of the life of Fred C. Adams, who founded the Festival in 1961 and passed away in February of 2020.
The season will run from June 21 through October 9. The plays will be William Shakespeare’s Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Pericles, and Cymbeline, as well as two great musicals: Ragtime by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens, The Pirates of Penzance by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Intimate Apparel by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, and The Comedy of Terrors by John Goodrum.
Tickets for the 2021 shows are $23 to $85. For more information or to purchase tickets, go to the Festival website at bard.org, call 1-800-PLAYTIX, or visit the Ticket Office onsite at the Beverley Center for the Arts.
