Winterfest

We firmly hesitate to call any Valley event “Winterfest” unless it includes an artificially frozen puddle surrounded by trucked-in snowbanks. Nevertheless, it is technically hibernal outside, and Southwest Shakepeare’s Winterfest repertory programming at Mesa Arts Center, One East Main Street, goes heavy on the fest, so everything comes out even.This...

By Julie Peterson

January 22, 2015

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We firmly hesitate to call any Valley event “Winterfest” unless it includes an artificially frozen puddle surrounded by trucked-in snowbanks. Nevertheless, it is technically hibernal outside, and Southwest Shakepeare’s Winterfest repertory programming at Mesa Arts Center, One East Main Street, goes heavy on the fest, so everything comes out even.

This season, the simultaneously running (through Saturday, January 31), energetically spear-shakin’ delights are As You Like It and King Lear. The former, presented Friday, January 23, at 7:30 p.m., is a frisky comedy that includes wrestling, female cross-dressing, and the “All the world’s a stage” speech. (Lear features gore, heartbreak, and thankless children, who are “sharper than a serpent’s tooth.”) Tickets, $10 to $44, are available at www.swshakespeare.org and 480-644-6500.

Fri., Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 17, 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 18, 3 p.m.; Thu., Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 24, 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 25, 3 p.m.; Thu., Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 31, 2 & 7:30 p.m., 2015

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Julie has written for the Night & Day events calendar section since 2005. As a student at Arizona State, she received the Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Creative Writing Award and the Theatre Medallion of Merit.

Contact: Julie Peterson