Plays and Tickets
2010: Season Seven June 23 - August 1
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Things to do before and after the play: Your Visit.
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Welcome to the new Great River Shakespeare Festival Ticket system! Here you’ll be able to view a seating chart, choose your own seats, and purchase the tickets online. After that, you’ll be able to print them out to bring with you to the theatre, or you may choose to have them waiting for you at the box office. Click here, and you’ll be taken to grsf.org/tickets, where it’ll take almost no time at all to book your seats!
Please note: at this time we cannot redeem gift certificates online or process travel package discounts online. You can call or stop by the GRSF box office at (507) 474-7900 x110 and we’ll be happy to book your tickets.
You can also stop by our office at 79 East 3rd Street, Winona.
Box office hours:
Monday-Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
The box office at Winona State University’s Performing Arts Center will be open one hour before the performance for ticket purchase as well.
Here are some other things you’ll want to know about:
Group Sales
Student Rush Tickets
Access Services
Remember, you can also check our calendar to see all the summer events in one place. If you see a performance you’d like to attend, just click on the date, and you’ll be provided with a link to buy tickets to that performance.
We’ll see you at the theatre!
Take me to the online ticket office!
Or, call us: (507) 474-7900 x110
Othello
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. . .”
Directed by Alec Wild
The Comedy of Errors
“It is thyself, mine own self’s better part;
Mine eye’s clear eye, my dear heart’s dearer heart;
My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope’s aim;
My sole earth’s heaven, and my heaven’s claim . . . “
Directed by Paul Barnes
The Daly News
Jonathan Gillard Daly’s true story of his own family stationed overseas during World War II and GRSF’s first ever musical.
Apprentice/Intern Company: Titus Andronicus
“These words are razors to my wounded heart. . .”
Shakespeare’s bloodiest revenge play. Festival founding artist Rick Barbour directs this intimate production in the Black Box Theater.
Front Porch Series
To be announced.
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Go to Your Visit for food, lodging and much more to do in Winona.
Prelude Concerts
Join us for free concerts on the green every Friday and Saturday evening on the campus of Winona State University. Sponsored by Theatre du Mississippi.
Click here for the 2009 schedule.
Grill with Will
Every Saturday evening during the festival, we’ll be grilling brats and corn on the green. Come hear the concert and enjoy a great Minnesota picnic.
Festival Mornings
Join Festival artists and guests for coffee and an informal, lively discussion about the season’s plays and the creative process on Saturday mornings from 10 - 11 AM at the Acoustic Cafe, located on the corner of Lafayette and 2nd street in downtown Winona.
Click the Your Visit tab for food, lodging and much more to do in Winona.
Company Conversations
Company members introduce you to the exciting process behind the scenes in these informative question-and-answer session. Conversations take place in the Performing Arts Center immediately following every Thursday night performance.
And YOU are invited!
Share refreshments and conversation with other Shakespeare enthusiasts at an after the performance wine and cheese party generously hosted by local patrons…
Meet new friends and an actor or two…
To continue the good work of GRSF, a donation of $15/person or $25/couple is suggested.
2010 AfterWill dates (check back as we add more):
Sunday, July 11th hosted by Wayne and Bonnie Kelly - after the 3:00 p.m. show until 9:00
Sunday, July 18th hosted by Bob and Sue Hoodecheck - after the 3:00 p.m. show until 9:00
Saturday, July 24th hosted by Laurie Lucas - after the 8:00 p.m. show until 12:30
Party size will be limited; click this link to RSVP now.
We will email details and directions to the party.
Rochester Day: July 18
A day of events to welcome our friends from Rochester.
Complete schedule
GRSF Company Prelude: July 21- 6:00 PM
Join us before the opening of Hamlet for this great GRSF tradition! Company members and staff will showcase their unseen or previously unknown abilities in a variety show. Past years have included sketches, scenes, songs, and poetry recitation. Be at the WSU green at 6:00 PM- this is a Prelude you won’t want to miss!
Hamlet Opening Night Party: July 21
After the Apprentice Acting Company’s first performance of Hamlet, come to Jefferson’s Pub and Grill and enjoy a celebration with GRSF company members, staff, and apprentices. This event is open to the community. For directions to Jefferson’s, see http://www.jeffersonpub.com/directions.html
…and more. Keep checking back for details on special events as our sixth season draws to a close!
Dr. Peter Saccio Sunday
July 26th 1PM
Returning for the 6th time to Winona, Dr. Peter Saccio is a professor of English at Dartmouth University. He is a renowned Shakespearean scholar who has published multiple discussions and criticisms, including Shakespeare’s English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Dramaand The Court Comedies of John Lyly: A Study in Allegorical Drama. He is also well-known for his lecture series for The Teaching Company, which include William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, and Shakespeare: The Word and the Action.
Frozen River Film Festival
July 12th, 1PM-3PM
The Great River Shakespeare Festival is proud to announce the screening of two documentaries from the Frozen River Film Festival: Ride of the Mergansers and American Outrage. American Outrage, focused on the Dann sisters and their fight to keep their Western Shoshone lands, was the 2009 winner of both the People’s Choice and Frozen River Awards.
Ken McCullough of St. Mary’s University will lead a discussion about American Outrage after the screening. McCullough is a member of the Frozen River Film Festival and the Dakota Gathering committee. This event takes place in the Recital Hall at the Performing Arts Center of Winona State University. (read more)
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The Daly News
Special Benefit Performance - Monday, July 13th, 7PM
“A terrific family story that balances sweet nostalgia with the pungent bite of history” ~Paul Kosidowski, Milwaukee Magazine.
Festival favorite Jonathan Gillard Daly takes us back to 1940s Milwaukee for a true story about his family. To keep his four sons connected to the family, while World War II forced them apart, his grandfather, Martin, created a newsletter he called The Daly News. This touching musical memoir about love and the distance between fathers and sons received great reviews in its Milwaukee production at Milwaukee Chamber Theater:
