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The Colorado Shakespeare Festival

  In June, The Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) kicked off a season of Shakespeare’s most popular plays and one award-winning new play with a Shakespearean twist. The summer season begins with “Twelfth Night,” opening outdoors in the Mary Rippon Theatre at the University of Colorado Boulder. “As You Like It” kicks off the indoor season …

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Colorado Shakespeare Festival Single Tickets On Sale

Single tickets to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s 2018 season are on sale. Tickets are available online, over the phone at 303- 492-8008 or in person at the CU Presents box office, 972 Broadway, Boulder. The nation’s second-oldest Shakespeare festival is set to focus on hidden gems and modern classics in 2018. The season of epic …

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CSF’s ‘Troilus And Cressida’ Brings Women To The Front Lines

…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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CSF season continues with ‘Cymbeline’

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 oŠ their feet more than 400 years after it was first staged. Performances run July 14- Aug. …

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Colorado Shakespeare Festival Flips The Script

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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CU-Boulder Stages A Shakespearean Space Musical

‘The Tempest’ meets the jukebox in ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’ The madcap jukebox musical “Return to the Forbidden Planet,” set in a rock ‘n’ roll Shakespearean spaceship, comes to the University of Colorado Boulder’s University Theatre this March. CU-Boulder Associate Professor Cecilia Pang directs, which promises nonstop laughs, infectious tunes and a generous nod …

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