Find Deals and Treasures at the Festival’s Surplus Sale

Need a costume for Halloween? Or props for an upcoming production? Visit the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s upcoming surplus sale! A sale on costumes, props, scenery, and lighting is scheduled to take place during this year’s Shakespeare Competition in early October. While nearly 3,000 students come to town to perform, compete, and enjoy Festival shows, this sale is an opportunity to take home pieces of theatre history.

Competition participants, other theatre groups, and the general public are invited to check out the available merchandise. “The sale is open to the public, but we are hoping a lot of the items go to school groups as they will benefit the most from them,” says Festival Costume Director Jeffrey Lieder. “The sale happens during the competition but is not held every year; generally only when we have enough items we’d like to pass along.”

Scheduled for October 3 and 4 (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and October 5 (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.), there will be hundreds of pieces from past productions at the Festival to choose from. Items available include costumes, furniture, lighting equipment, mini fog machine, miscellaneous trims and decor, hand props, par lights, scenery pieces, and more.

“The production departments at the Festival have limited storage space and we hate to throw things away, so every once in a while we need to make some room by selling off items we’re not able to use anymore,” says Festival Props Director Ben Hohman. “This sale is our chance to sell items we can no longer store to other theater groups and the community.”

Everything will be available for bargain prices, sold “as is”, and are non-refundable. Credit/debit cards, cash, and checks will be accepted. The sale will be held in the Festival Costume Shop. Entrance will be on Shakespeare Lane (the one-way street that runs along the back side of the Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre), between 100 West and 200 West. Please note that nearby parking may be limited and the adjacent administration parking lot is for Festival employees only, but that there are places to pull over to load vehicles near the loading dock of the Engelstad Theatre and the Pedersen Shakespeare Character Garden on Shakespeare Lane.

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