Oxford Shakespeare Festival is proud to announce our Summer 2008 ‘Fifth Anniversary Season’ as it continues the tradition of summer theatre at Ole Miss and Oxford. Last summer we presented ROMEO AND JULIET, AS YOU LIKE IT, and our Family Production, Gilbert and Sullivan’s THE MIKADO.

This season we again proudly present three professional productions: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare; MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare; and our Family Production, Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. PINAFORE.

2006 and 2007 brought new major sponsors to OSF. Summer 2008 will build on the support from our new and continuing sponsors – the Department of Music, the Division of Outreach and Continuing Education, the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, the Department of Theatre Arts, the Oxford Tourism Council, the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, the Mississippi Arts Commission, and the Gertrude Castellow Ford Foundation. We thank all our sponsors and we ask that you give our business partners a look.

This year we are also proud to announce significant management support from the Division of Outreach at UM and the addition of the Gertrude C. Ford Symposium as an additional scholarly event during the third week of productions.

The Festival was created with you in mind. You are why we build, direct, design, and perform. Experience Shakespeare’s comedy and drama, Gilbert and Sullivan’s music and song, from June 13th through July 2nd, 2008, at the beautiful Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts on the Ole Miss campus, as we celebrate Theatre Arts in Mississippi!

Joe Turner Cantú
Artistic Director

110 Isom Hall, Theatre Arts
The University of Mississippi
University, MS 39677
Phone: (662) 915-5745 or (662) 915-5816
Email: osf@olemiss.edu