Our story
The Great River Shakespeare Festival is Minnesota’s Shakespeare festival. We have been telling some of the best stories ever written for more than 20 years. Here is our story!
Production History
APR/INT = Apprentice/Intern Production
SYA/SYD = Shakespeare for Young Actors & Designers
SCH = Shakespeare in the Schools
2024
Hamlet
Much Ado About Nothing
SYA/SYD: King Lear
2023
As You Like It
The Winter's Tale
Imbroglio by Melissa Maxwell
SYA/SYD: Richard III
2022
The African Company Presents Richard III
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Always Patsy Cline
SYA/SYD: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Community Engaged Project: All the Town's a Stage - A Winona Story
2021
The Tempest
Great Expectations
Every Brilliant Thing
APR/INT: Romeo and Juliet
SYA/SYD: As You Like It
2019
Macbeth
Cymbeline
The Servant of Two Masters
No Child...
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
APR/INT: Love’s Labor’s Lost
SYA/SYD: Henry V
2018
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
All’s Well That Ends Well
Shakespeare in Love
Venus in Fur
APR/INT: The Merchant of Venice
SYA/SYD: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
2017
The Comedy of Errors
Richard III Shipwrecked! An Entertainment
An Iliad
APR/INT: Henry VI: The Rise of Richard
SYA/SYD: Hamlet
SCH: Romeo & Juliet
2016
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Georama: A Mississippi River Musical APR/INT: Coriolanus
SYA/SYD: The Comedy of Errors
SCH: The Winter’s Tale
2015
Much Ado about Nothing
Romeo and Juliet
The Glass Menagerie
APR/INT: King John
SYA/SYD: Macbeth
SCH: Twelfth Night
2014
Hamlet
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
APR/INT: Troilus and Cressida
SYA/SYD: The Tempest
SCH: Julius Caesar
2013
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
King Henry V
APR/INT: Macbeth
SYA/SYD: Romeo and Juliet
SCH: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2012
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
King Lear
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
APR/INT: All’s Well that Ends Well
SYA: As You Like It
2011
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
King Henry IV, Part I
The Fantasticks
APR/INT: King Lear
SYA: The Winter’s Tale
2010
Othello
The Comedy of Errors
The Daly News
APR/INT: Titus Andronicus
SYA: Henry V
2009
Love’s Labour’s Lost
The Tempest
APR/INT: Hamlet
2008
The Merchant of Venice
The Taming of the Shrew
APR/INT: Pericles
2007
As You Like It
Macbeth
APR/INT: Julius Caesar
2006
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Romeo and Juliet
APR/INT: Cymbeline
2005
Much Ado about Nothing
Richard III
APR/INT: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
2004
The Winter’s Tale
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
APR/INT: As You Like It
company member testimonials
Involvement with the Great River Shakespeare Festival has been meaningful for over 1000 individuals who have helped create the art in Winona for the past 21 years. Here are some of their reflections and favorite memories. To check out our full archive of company member testimonies, click here.
