Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Stratford Shakespeare Festival

  • STRATFORD, Ontario — The Stratford Shakespeare Festival has unveiled its offerings for the 2013 season, a stuffed slate that welcomes back Brian Dennehy and Brian Bedford.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Antoni Cimolino today announced the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's playbill for 2013, his first season as Artistic Director, and began to outline his vision for the Festival's future during his tenure.
  • (Broadway World)
  • Brian Bedford will play Shylock, Brian Dennehy will do Beckett and "The Who's Tommy" will be staged at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario in 2013, all part of a 12-show season the theater announced on Tuesday.
  • (New York Times Blogs)
  • The Stratford Festival of Canada has announced its 2013 season The Thrill by the leading Canadian playwright Judith Thompson and John Murrells Taking Shakespeare, starring Martha Henry.
  • (Chicago Tribune)
  • The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is rolling out a wider variety of public talks, concerts and dance performances to keep audiences at the festival longer.
  • (Globe and Mail)
  • TORONTO - Des McAnuff, the renowned outgoing artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, says its not in his nature to get emotional with his goodbyes.
  • (Calgary Herald)
  • My annual pilgrimage to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival stimulated the thought once again about what its like to be in a community that devotes itself to beauty.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Stratford, much like its most famous native son, is a town with humble beginnings that now draws hundreds of thousands of fans — or rather, tourists — for the Shakespeare festival, celebrating its 60th-anniversary season through October.
  • (New York Times)
  • This could have been one of McAnuff's greatest shows and a perfect valedictory to his reign at Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Instead, it serves as a perfect textbook study of what he's done right and what he's done wrong in the past five years.
  • (Toronto Star)
  • Similarly, of the five previous productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, all but one either removed or elided over that troubling war crime.
  • (Globe and Mail)

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