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Patrick Stewart of Star Trek (and Shakespeare) fame shared his wit and wisdom Saturday with attendees at the Glenn Miller Ballroom on the CU 麻豆影院 campus as part of national book tour.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival staffers share Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program with scholars and practitioners in England, including at Shakespeare鈥檚 Globe theatre.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival plans to bring live Shakespeare to every county in the state by 2028, reaching an estimated 180,000 audience members.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival鈥檚 60th season continues with 鈥淩osencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead,鈥� a critically-acclaimed 1966 play by Tom Stoppard. CSF鈥檚 producing artistic director Timothy Orr directs the production.

Tyler Lansford is transforming the death of Julius Caesar into new life for Roman rhetoric. Audiences attending this summer鈥檚 Colorado Shakespeare Festival will see, hear and feel the resurrection.

Yes, there will be togas. No, it won鈥檛 be boring. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival鈥檚 60th season continues with an homage to the plays performed during its first-ever summer in 1958, including a production of 鈥淛ulius Caesar鈥� set in classical Rome. But while the setting evokes ancient history, Director Anthony Powell assures audiences that this play is anything but.

This summer鈥檚 鈥淗amlet,鈥� opening June 23 and running through Aug. 13, will be the ninth production in CSF history鈥攂ut it鈥檒l be the first to be staged indoors with a woman in the title role.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is set to kick off its landmark 60th season in style with a swing-era production of 鈥淭he Taming of the Shrew鈥濃�攖he same play that opened CSF鈥檚 very first festival in 1958.

In 2015, the oldest Shakespeare festival in the United States announced that it would commission 36 playwrights to 鈥渢ranslate鈥� 39 plays into 鈥渃ontemporary modern English.鈥� The Oregon Shakespeare Festival鈥檚 鈥淧lay On!鈥� project sparked instant, heated controversy and debate among Shakespeare aficionados. Now, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival has hosted a reading of two "translated" plays.

In a nod to the past, CSF鈥檚 Summer 2017 lineup will remount the plays audiences saw in its original 1958 season: The Taming of the Shrew, a laugh-out-loud audience favorite; Julius Caesar, a classic political thriller; and Hamlet, Shakespeare鈥檚 undisputed masterpiece.