Lot 204 (visitor parking after 5 pm and weekends)
0.05 miles
153 spaces, 12听accessible
听Euclid Parking Garage (Lot 205)
0.1听尘颈濒别蝉
354 spaces, 8 accessible
听Lot 065 (visitor parking)
0.3 miles
37 spaces
Venue
Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre
Tucked inside the Hellems Arts and Sciences Building is the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, named after the first female professor at the University of Colorado and the first woman in the U.S. to teach at a state university.听The Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre was officially completed in 1939, but no plays were staged there until 1944, when Shakespeare teacher and bibliographer James Sandoe was asked to direct a play for the coming summer. Because the Department of the Navy occupied the indoor University Theatre during World War II, Sandoe decided to try out the new Mary Rippon complex with a production of "Romeo and Juliet", thereby starting the tradition that would grow into the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.