Utah Shakespeare Festival and Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games Come Together to Celebrate
Published: May 14, 2025 | Read Time: 2 minutes
CEDAR CITY, UT (May 13, 2025) –– The Utah Shakespeare Festival (USF) and the Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games (USG) are excited to announce a new collaboration for 2025. Both organizations, hosted on the campus of Southern Utah University (SUU) in Cedar City, are popular destinations for theatre and sports enthusiasts from the state and region. This year USF and USG are strategically working together to enhance the experience of both groups’ guests and participants.
“The Utah Shakespeare Festival and the Utah Summer Games were both created by visionaries: Fred C. Adams and Gerald R. Sherratt,” said USF Executive Managing Director Michael Bahr. “Their vision was always about bringing people together in a communal celebration of art and sport. How wonderfully poetic that their vision is being strengthened through this collaboration.”
USG is excited to invite Festival patrons to visit Cedar City for its opening ceremony on Friday, June 6, 2025, at 8 p.m. at the SUU Eccles Coliseum. It will feature music from Neon Circus (a Brooks and Dunn tribute band), the largest fireworks display in USG history, and more! For additional information or to purchase tickets, visit The Utah Summer Games Website.
The Shakespeare Festival is pleased to invite USG participants and their families to experience its award-winning live theatre with the “Utah Summer Games Night at the Festival” on Thursday, June 26, with two free tickets and up to four half-price tickets to that night’s performance of Macbeth at 8 p.m. in the outdoor Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre. Athletes can reserve their tickets by calling 800-PLAYTIX. USG Athletes must have proof of USG registration when picking up their tickets.
“It is an honor to collaborate with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. This initiative invites our athletes to enjoy the Tony Award-winning programming of the Festival,” said Jon Oglesby, Executive Director of the Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games. “We are grateful to our campus colleagues Michael Bahr, John DiAntonio, and members of their teams for creating a special experience to merge art and sport in a unique way.”
USG participants are invited to also attend The Greenshow––a free, 30-minute family-friendly USF pre-show––which plays each evening Monday through Saturday at 7:10 p.m. on the outdoor Greenshow stage. The theme for “Utah Summer Games Night at the Festival,” will be Scottish Highland Games, a perfect complement to the USG athletic experience.
To experience even more USF, USG athletes and their families can return and get additional tickets throughout the season; from June 26 through August 23 enjoy 10% off, or a special 50% discount from August 25 through October 3 (excluding closing performances).
Please visit the Shakespeare Festival Website for more information.
The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 64th season runs June 16 through October 4, 2025, and includes Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and As You Like It, along with the Tony Award-winning musical comedy A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Oscar Wilde’s popular satire The Importance of Being Earnest, the touching and hilarious Steel Magnolias, and the WWII love story Dear Jack, Dear Louise.
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Contact Information:
Brooke Heath
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