Great River Shakespeare Festival

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

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. It produces three simultaneous performances each summer, held at the Winona State University Performing Arts Center. Starting in 2004, it has run for 12 seasons with annual audiences of over 10,000. Its 2015 Season ran from June 24-August 3, and featured three mainstage plays and one apprentice/intern production.

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 The Daly News
• 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

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

External links

• Great River Shakespeare Festival