Great River Shakespeare Festival

Coordinates: 44°03′07″N 91°38′07″W / 44.0519°N 91.6354°W / 44.0519; -91.6354

GRSF 2015 season closing ceremony on the set of "Much Ado About Nothing"

GRSF 2015 company greeting the audience at the Winona State University Performing Arts Center

The Great River Shakespeare Festival (GRSF) is a professional equity theatre company in Winona, Minnesota, a Mississippi River town in the southeastern part of the state. Starting in 2004, it has produced several simultaneous performances each summer, held at the Winona State University Performing Arts Center, with annual audiences of over 10,000. Its 16th season ends August 4, 2019.

The festival offers educational opportunities, especially for youth, including an apprentice/intern production. It features many art, music, and other events, such as an annual sonnet contest with entries from around the world.

Professional company productions[]

2004 (debut year): The Winter's Tale and A Midsummer Night's Dream
2005: Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing
2006: Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night
2007: Macbeth and As You Like It
2008: The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew
2009: The Tempest and Love's Labours Lost
2010: The Comedy of Errors, Othello, and
2011: Henry IV, Part One, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Fantasticks
2012: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, King Lear, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
2013: Twelfth Night, or What You Will, King Henry V
2014: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
2015: Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Glass Menagerie
2016: As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Georama
2017: The Comedy of Errors, Richard III, , ""
2018: All's Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare in Love, Venus in Fur
2019: Macbeth, Cymbeline, The Servant of Two Masters adapted by Beth Gardiner, by Nilaja Sun, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
2021: The Tempest, Great Expectations adapted by Gale Childs Daly, by .

Plays by acting apprentices and production interns[]

2004: As You Like It
2005: Twelfth Night
2006: Cymbeline
2007: Julius Caesar
2008: Pericles
2009: Hamlet
2010: Titus Andronicus
2011: King Lear
2012: All's Well that Ends Well
2013: Macbeth
2014: Troilus and Cressida
2015: King John
2016: Coriolanus
2017: Henry VI
2018: The Merchant of Venice
2019: Love's Labour's Lost Additionally, the festival featured a performance of Henry V done by their summer class Shakespeare for Young Actors and hosted a performance of The Two Gentlemen of Verona done by the visiting group .
2021: Romeo and Juliet

External links[]

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