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Colorado Shakespeare Festival's Hadley Kamminga-Peck on Its Female Hamlet
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 8:15 a.m. by Lila Thulin

A tragedy centered around a woman fighting for political power may give audience members a stinging sense of deja vu, but the play in question is not about the 2016 presidential election. Rather, it's Colorado Shakespeare Festival's...
Seriously, Should a Woman Play Hamlet?
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 7:30 a.m. by Juliet Wittman

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is fielding a female Hamlet this year, and the idea worries me.
Review: An Overload of Equivocation at Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 7:01 a.m. by Juliet Wittman

At the intermission of Equivocation, this summer’s traditional non-Shakespeare-but-related-to-Shakespeare offering from the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, I found myself exultant, almost floating along the aisle to the lobby. I’m so...
Colorado Shakespeare Festival's Timothy Orr Is Ready for a Risky Season
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 6:53 a.m. by Juliet Wittman

When Timothy Orr, then the assistant director of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, was called on to take over the whole thing following the departure of CSF artistic director Philip Sneed in early 2013, he found himself immersed in...