Utah Shakespeare Festival

Walking the tree-lined avenue of the Utah Shakespeare Festival lively music beckons you like the Pied Piper. Taking your seat in the grand Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre, the lights come up and Elizabethan costumed actors take to the stage. You’ve entered a time warp and a magical evening under the stars is about to begin.

The Utah Shakespeare Festival was founded in 1961 by a young theater professor named Fred C. Adams. Each year the Festival welcomes over 100,000 guests from all over the country and the world.

The Festival is one of the oldest and largest Shakespeare festivals in North America and most of the Festival’s lead actors are members of the Actors’ Equity Association and come from all over the country, including Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. Famous actors that have appeared on the Festival stage include Harold Gould, Benjamin Bratt, Jeremy Irons, Bradley Whitford (NBC’s The West Wing), Matt Bomer (USA’s White Collar) and Ty Burrell (ABC’s Modern Family).

In 2000, the Utah Shakespeare Festival received the coveted Tony Award for America’s Outstanding Regional Theatre. The Tony Award is the most prestigious and sought-after award in live theatre—the equivalent to the Academy Award in film—and is presented by the American Theatre Wing and the League of American Theatres and Producers. The Festival was nominated for the award by the American Theatre Critics Association.

Get fully immersed in the world of The Bard.

Location 

The Utah Shakespeare Festival is part of the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts on the campus of Southern Utah University

Utah Shakespeare Festival
351 W. University Blvd.
Cedar City, UT 84720

(435) 586-7878 (Box Office)
1(800) PLAYTIX
www.bard.org