RonnieAdventure #0064 - Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Iron County, Utah

The Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Utah, is nationally known for its summer theatre productions and is currently celebrating its fifty-second season. As a special bonus, this season they were able to obtain the first off-Broadway rights to produce "Peter and the Starcatcher" before it was released to any other regional theaters or traveling companies. Since it was cheaper to travel to Cedar City than New York City, this seemed like a great RonnieAdventure!

The Festival is held on the Southern Utah University campus, where they have two indoor theaters and an outdoor Shakespearean theater. There is also a new theater in the design stage that will open in 2016 to coincide with a world-wide Shakespeare celebration.

Photography is not allowed in the theaters, and I didn't have my camera with me in the evening, so I went by the campus in the morning to take pictures or the facilities. Unfortunately, there were no people dressed in period costumes roaming the area and the Greenshows (free live productions on the lawns) were not being performed.

Anyway, "Peter and the Starcatcher" is an awesome production and I would highly recommend it when it comes to a regional theater in your area. The story is somewhat hard to follow if you haven't read the book or know the story, so we were fortunate that before the performance we had the opportunity to attend a lecture about the production by Fred Adams, the Founder and Executive Producer Emeritus of the Festival.