Scott Phillips News

Ignite your passion with William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Charles Dickens - all featured in the 2010 summer season at the Utah Shakespearean Festival (300 W. Center Street, Cedar City, UT).

The 2010 Utah Shakespearean Festival summer season will feature an electrifying world premiere musical, 'Great Expectations.' Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, the musical will run from July 1 to August 28 in repertory with five other productions.

The company for the Utah Shakespearean Festival 2010 summer season will feature a number of returning alumni. Some actors include Michael Brusasco, Don Burroughs, Aaron Galligan-Stierle, Grant Goodman, David Ivers, Carol Linnea Johnson, Melinda Pfundstein, and Brian Vaughn.

Two long-time Utah Shakespearean Festival actors and directors have been named as joint artistic directors at the Tony Award-winning theatre company. David Ivers and Brian Vaughn were introduced at a press conference at the Alta Club in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 5 at 10 a.m.

The 2010 Utah Shakespearean Festival summer season will feature an electrifying world premiere musical, 'Great Expectations.' Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, the musical will run from July 1 to August 28 in repertory with five other productions.

A number of exciting new faces will grace the Utah Shakespearean Festival stages this summer. Patrons will be introduced to new actors who have worked at theatres like The Old Globe, American Conservatory Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and more.

The company for the Utah Shakespearean Festival 2010 summer season will feature a number of returning alumni. Some actors include Michael Brusasco, Don Burroughs, Aaron Galligan-Stierle, Grant Goodman, David Ivers, Carol Linnea Johnson, Melinda Pfundstein, and Brian Vaughn.

It's ‘Curtains' for Diablo Theatre Company thru Feb. 28 in Walnut Creek.

It's ‘Curtains' for Diablo Theatre Company starting February 12 thru Feb. 28 in Walnut Creek.

It's ‘Curtains' for Diablo Theatre Company starting February 12 thru Feb. 28 in Walnut Creek.

It's ‘Curtains' for Diablo Theatre Company starting February 12 thru Feb. 28 in Walnut Creek.

The Utah Shakespearean Festival recently announced additional dates in its 2010 season, a new 'Festival Experience' activity, and price adjustments, including lower prices in some sections.

'Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical,' which premiered at the Utah Shakespearean Festival in 2007, is ready to take London by storm. The musical will have a private industry presentation and workshop in March of 2010. A full-scale production is slated for a West End run in fall of 2010.

It's ‘Curtains' for Diablo Theatre Company starting February 12 thru Feb. 28 in Walnut Creek.

The Utah Shakespearean Festival is one step closer to reaching Founder Fred C. Adams' dream of building a Shakespeare center in Cedar City, Utah.

Ignite your passion with William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Frank, and Charles Dickens - all featured in the 2010 season at the Utah Shakespearean Festival (300 W. Center Street, Cedar City, UT).

Brian Vaughn has been an actor at the Utah Shakespearean Festival for fifteen seasons. He has played such roles as Cyrano de Bergerac and Hamlet. And this year Brian Vaughn returns to the Festival to play one of the Shakespeare?s most powerful kings: the title role in ?Henry V.?

With many theatre companies across the country closing because of the recent economic downturn, the Utah Shakespearean Festival is tightening its belt and making adjustments and cutbacks to its 2009 season to ensure its continued artistic and financial solvency. The Festival ended 2008 with a slight deficit, but administrators are looking forward and planning to weather the deepening financial storm-although they admit it has involved making some difficult decisions. Changes decided upon include the shortening of the summer season by one week, changing the line-up and calendar of plays in the fall season, eliminating some positions, and several other money-saving cuts. 'As we look ahead to the coming year and predictions of a furthering recession,' said R. Scott Phillips, Festival executive director, 'we want to be pro-active and guarantee that the Festival (which was founded nearly 50 years ago) continues for at least another half-century.' 'Thus, we have taken a fine scalpel and carefully sliced away costs in ways that will not hurt our artistic product or the experience of our patrons,' he continued. First, the Festival has eliminated one week from its summer season, closing one week earlier. The season will run June 29 to August 29 and feature Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, Henry V, and As You Like It, a well as Noel Coward's Private Lives, the charming and emotionally-rich Foxfire, and the family musical The Secret Garden.