The Utah Shakespeare Festival won this year’s Best Regional Theatre Tony Award a few months ago. The theatre “was virtually unknown in New York until the Tonys but well known among a Shakespeare underground in the heartland. As many as 155,000 theatergoers, mostly young families and older people from the Midwest and Far West, surge into this sedate mountain town in the southwestern corner of Utah each summer for afternoons and evenings of professional theatrical productions.” – New York Times