page_title: Southern Utah University
section_title: Utah Shakespeare Festival
hierarchical_section_title: Southern Utah University / Student life / Utah Shakespeare Festival
caption_attribution_description: Globe Theatre at SUU. Taken during the &lt;a href="http://www.bard.org/"&gt;Shakespearean Festival&lt;/a&gt; in 2007
context_page_description: Southern Utah University is a public university in Cedar City, Utah. Founded in 1897 as a normal school, Southern Utah University now graduates over 1,800 students each year with baccalaureate and graduate degrees from its six colleges. SUU offers more than 140 undergraduate degrees and 19 graduate programs. More than 10,000 students attend SUU.
  SUU's 17 athletic teams compete in Division 1 of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Thunderbirds. SUU joined the Big Sky Conference in September 2012. Southern Utah University is also the site for the Utah Summer Games.
context_section_description: The Shakespeare Festival, which is housed on SUU's campus, was founded by Fred C. Adams in 1961 and presented its first season in 1962, bringing in 3,276 spectators. The initial two-week season yielded $2,000 and demonstrated the cooperative relationship between SUU and the community. Now in 2003, nearly 150,000 ticket-holders viewed 246 performances in three theaters during a sixteen-week season. The Festival is now a year-round operation with a full-time staff of 26 and now an outgoing educational outreach program, including workshops and a touring version of one of the plays.
  The Festival's well-known outdoor theatre materialized in stages. The Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theatre, located on SUU's campus and one of the most authentic Elizabethan theaters in the world, was dedicated in 1977. The Festival continued to grow and opened the modern indoor Randall L. Jones Theatre on June 23, 1989, offering classics of world drama. The Festival's repertoire spans more than three centuries of playwrights and has included classics of France, England, Norway, and the U.S. In 2015, the Utah Shakespeare Festival completed its last season in the Adams Shakespearean Theater. In 2016, the new Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre and the Eileen and Allan Anes Studio Theatre were added to Festival's facilities as part of the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts at Southern Utah University.
caption: Fred C. Adams Theatre on SUU's campus
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