2015 Colorado Shakespeare Festival to Get Underway This Month

On the heels of its critically acclaimed, record-breaking 2014 season, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival gets underway with two perennial Shakespeare favorites: Othello and the beloved comedy Much Ado About Nothing will open in the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre in June. (See dates and descriptions below.)

Henry V and the fresh new comedy Wittenberg will play on the indoor University Theatre stage, along with two exclusive "original practices" performances of the rarely produced Henry VI, Part 1. (See dates and descriptions below.)

Tickets are available at coloradoshakes.org and the CU Presents box office, 303-492-8008. The box office is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and is located in the University Club on the CU-Boulder campus.

The 2015 season will feature several notable milestones:

The first outdoor production of Othello since 1996

The first performances of Henry VI, Part 1 since 1967

The completion, with Henry V, of the Henriad cycle begun in 2013

The Colorado and regional premier of Wittenberg, a comedy by Colorado playwright David Davalos that has inspired rave reviews in New York and beyond

Directing debuts for nationally known Shakespeare artists Jim Helsinger of the Orlando Shakespeare Theater and Lisa Wolpe, founder of the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Co.

If you would like to speak to CSF Producing Artistic Director Timothy Orr, the directors or anyone else in the company, please contact Sabine Kortals, sabine.kortals@colorado.edu. Also contact Sabine for press tickets to opening night performances.