The Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival is the oldest and largest Shakespeare festival in Michigan. Every year GVSU’s theatre department puts on events celebrating Shakespeare. In its 18th anniversary this year, the festival will take place Sept. 30 through Oct. 9.

Faculty and staff organize the festival and strive to involve their students with aspects of festival planning. Each season, they also strive to connect festival activities to important areas of university life outside of dramatic art.

The main stage production this year is “Twelfth Night.” The production cast includes students, community actors and guest professionals.

One of the new promotions this year is the “Where’s Will?” campaign. A William Shakespeare doll will be hidden in various places around campus. The first person to find the doll should take a picture of it and post it to the Shakespeare Festival Facebook page, where every day that Will is hiding, a clue to his whereabouts will be posted. Whoever finds him first gets a T-shirt and/or tickets to see Twelfth Night. To follow the festival, visit www.facebook.com and search “Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival.”

To learn more about the festival, visit gvsu.edu/shakes.

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