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Colorado Shakespeare Festival: Changes Both Appealing and Prudent

KUNC

Published June 24, 2011 at 5:21 AM MDT

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Ben Bonenfant as Romeo. Jamie Ann Romero as Juliet.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival opens this weekend at the University of Colorado in Boulder with Romeo and Juliet. The company broke-even last year, but organizers have made some changes to this year’s season as they grapple with lower attendance numbers and how to keep Shakespeare relevant in the age of Twitter and Facebook. KUNC’s Peter Johnson has more.