Dec 01 2020
The internationally acclaimed Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) announced it will produce an all outdoors season in 2021. The festival runs June 18-Aug. 15, opening with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, followed by Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” and two performances of “Pericles” in its Original Practices tradition. “Last spring …
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Aug 01 2017
Festival recounts England’s bloody history in a pair of ‘original practices’ performances The Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s 60th season concludes with two highly-anticipated original practices performances of “Henry VI, Part 3,” part of a history series that cemented William Shakespeare’s fame in the late 16th century. This year marks CSF’s fourth season doing Shakespeare the way …
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Jul 26 2016
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s season includes the rarely staged Troilus and Cressida, a thrilling and timeless Trojan War epic penned by the Bard in 1602. On the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre running through August 6. Troilus and Cressida weaves together stories of god-like heroes, embattled kings and the tragedy of two doomed, disillusioned lovers who …
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Jul 12 2016
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival continues its season of myths, legends and fairy tales with the classic, fantasy-like “Cymbeline.” From battle scenes to mistaken identities to a magical love story, this timeless play still sweeps audiences of all ages o their feet more than 400 years after it was first staged. Performances run July 14- Aug. …
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Jun 03 2016
The Comedy of Errors casts women in lead roles, achieves gender parity William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors is so timeless it needs no rewrite to get wall-to-wall laughs in the 21st century. But a few trailblazers at the Festival thought recently about the classic slapstick routines of Lucille Ball and wondered what would happen …
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