The Colorado Shakespeare Festival marked its 60th season in 2017. The season also marked the second time the country’s second-oldest Shakespeare festival completed Shakespeare’s entire canon, a feat achieved by only a few other companies in the nation.
That meant staging the rarely seen “Henry VI, Part 3” in addition to crowd pleasers.
“It’s rarely produced. The last time we produced it was in the 1960s,” said Timothy Orr, Producing Artistic Director.
The festival’s serious approach makes it one of the significant institutions that helped make Boulder County the cultural and arts center it is today. It doesn’t hurt that most of the plays are staged in the picturesque Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre.
“(Boulder) is just an amazing place to live and work,” Orr said. “It’s an inspiration for the artist to be here among all this natural beauty, to be in a well-maintained and preserved town at the foot of the Rocky Mountains,” he said. “We have one of the most beautiful outdoor theaters in the United States.”
