Shake It Up

Considering that “all the world’s a stage,” it no longer seems the least bit far-fetched for Boulder’s time-honored Colorado Shakespeare Festival to toss a musical about American folk legend Woody Guthrie into its summer mix. No matter that Brooklyn and the Dust Bowl were both way more than a stone’s...

By Susan Froyd

June 19, 2008

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Considering that “all the world’s a stage,” it no longer seems the least bit far-fetched for Boulder’s time-honored Colorado Shakespeare Festival to toss a musical about American folk legend Woody Guthrie into its summer mix. No matter that Brooklyn and the Dust Bowl were both way more than a stone’s throw from Stratford-upon-Avon: That’s exactly what’s in store when the fest’s fiftieth season commences today, although three Shakespearean stalwarts — Macbeth, Henry VIII and Love’s Labour’s Lost, with a swashbuckling, family-friendly mounting of The Three Musketeers thrown in for good measure — fill out the meaty repertory that splits itself between the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre and the indoor University Theatre.

A preview performance of Macbeth starts things off tonight at 8:30 p.m. on the Rippon stage; the aforementioned Guthrie biography, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, debuts at 7:30 p.m. on June 27 in the indoor venue. Individual show tickets range from $7 to $54, (series subscriptions are $64 to $204) and include impromptu pre-show Green Shows, strolls through the Shakespeare Garden and other experiential incidentals. For tickets, information about special events and complete showtimes, visit www.coloradoshakes.org or call 303-492-0554.
June 20-Aug. 16, 2008

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Susan Froyd started writing for Westword as the "Thrills" editor in 1992 and never quite left the fold. These days she still freelances for the paper in addition to walking her dogs, enjoying cheap ethnic food and reading voraciously. Sometimes she writes poetry.

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