Colorado Shakespeare Festival Single Tickets On Sale 11/27

Single tickets to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's 2018 season are on sale to the public starting Monday, Nov. 27 at 10 a.m. Tickets are available online, over the phone at 303-492-8008 or in person at the CU Presents box office, 972 Broadway, Boulder.

On the heels of its wildly successful 60th season, the nation's second-oldest Shakespeare festival is set to focus on hidden gems and modern classics in 2018. The season of epic love stories, family dramas and laugh-out-loud fun includes "Love's Labour's Lost," "Richard III," "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "You Can't Take It With You." As is tradition, CSF also offers a one-night-only Original Practices production of "Edward III," which promises to sell out quickly

Last season, CSF celebrated its 60th season with big-name plays and officially completed the full Shakespeare canon for a second time. Producing Artistic Director Timothy Orr says he was thrilled to look beyond those two big milestones and discover that the possibilities were endless.

"The question we started asking ourselves was, 'What now? What next?'" he says. "The answer was: 'We can do anything.' In a way, it's a blank slate."

Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2018 Season

Love's Labour's Lost
Directed by Brendon Fox
"For where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?"
Start your summer with a frothy, funny celebration of love and learning. In the bucolic Kingdom of Navarre, four attractive young men make a pact to swear off romance and focus on academia ... just minutes before the four loves of their lives wander by. Shakespeare's side-splitting comedy about the struggle to balance heart and head is the perfect ode to CSF's academic surroundings.
Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre | June 9-Aug. 12 (June 8 Preview) | Tickets start at $20

Richard III
Directed by Wendy Franz
"Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end."
The Bard's most murderous, malicious and mesmerizing king comes to the CSF indoor stage for the first time. Richard, Edward IV's deformed and embittered younger brother, will do anything to take the crown for himself-but once he has the throne, everything falls apart. Four centuries later, the masterful conclusion of Shakespeare's Henriad history cycle still speaks volumes about lies, honor and the dark side of ambition.
University Theatre | June 23-Aug. 11 (June 22 Preview) | Tickets start at $20

Cyrano de Bergerac
Based on the translation written by Anthony Burgess of the play written by Edmond Rostand
Directed by Christopher DuVal
"I myself am a tree, not high perhaps, not beautiful, but free."
The inspiration behind the hit film "Roxanne," Edmond Rostand's timeless romantic comedy has it all: passion, panache and thrilling swordplay. Cyrano, witty and proud but crippled by insecurity, secretly pines for Roxanne-but she has her eyes on handsome, empty-headed Christian. With a beating heart as big as its title character's nose, "Cyrano de Bergerac" is one of the greatest love stories ever written.
Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre | July 7-Aug. 11 (July 6 Preview) | Tickets start at $20

You Can't Take It With You
By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Directed by Carolyn Howarth
"As near as I can see, the only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends."
Seize the rare opportunity to see a hit screwball comedy on the professional stage. When Alice brings her boyfriend's traditional, straight-laced family to dine with her household of freethinking eccentrics, fights break out and fireworks erupt. Kaufman and Hart's 1930s classic, more relevant today than ever, pays homage to those who march to the beat of their own drum and reminds us all to choose dreams over drudgery.
University Theatre | July 21-Aug. 12 (July 20 Preview) | Tickets start at $20

Edward III
By William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd
Directed by Kevin Rich
"Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
CSF's beloved 'Original Practices' tradition continues with the gripping history play that's been mired in mystery for hundreds of years. England's king is out to capture the crown of France and the heart of a married countess. The cost of his lust? Personal humiliation and 150 years of English battle and bloodshed. This unique, one-night-only performance, inspired by the stage practices of Shakespeare's own time, is summer's hottest ticket.
Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre | Sunday, Aug. 5, 6:30 p.m. | Tickets start at $20

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a professional theatre company in association with the University of Colorado Boulder. Since 1958, the festival has celebrated and explored Shakespeare and his continuing influence and vitality through productions of superior artistic quality, education and community engagement.

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