Performing Shakespeare in the Era of COVID-19
Although tragedy is not usually the preferred companion for hard times, Anglophone pop culture...
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Tag: Stratford Festival
Dramaturgy in Action: How the Stratford Festival’s Meighen Forum Challenges Audiences to Think Beyond the Production
Imagine you have just experienced one of the most extraordinary performances you have ever seen in...
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Stratford 2019: Perfect Production Lurching Forward Into Full-Blown Farce
Chicago. 1928. The hard-boiled boozy reporters on the crime beat are sitting around a...
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Stratford’s Production Of “Paradise Lost” Is A Stellar Achievement!
STRATFORD, Ont. — That could well be a white lab coat that Lucy Peacock is wearing when she first...
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“The Tempest” At The Stratford Festival
Purported to be the last play the Bard had written alone, Stratford’s version of The...
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Acting Legend Martha Henry Triumphs As Prospero At Stratford
STRATFORD—We find ourselves immediately plunged into the opening shipwreck scene: sails flapping...
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Robert Lepage Finally Makes It To Stratford With An Astonishing “Coriolanus”
We’re not in a movie house. We’re in Robert Lepage country, so it’s inevitable that the famed...
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Review: “The Music Man” At The Stratford Festival
Admittedly, I’m probably the only person who has neither seen the Robert Preston/Shirley Jones...
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Review: “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” At The Stratford Festival
Eugene O’Neill’s classic twentieth-century semi-autobiographical drama deals with the Tyrone...
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Review: “To Kill A Mockingbird” At The Stratford Festival
Even after having taught this American classic to high school students for over thirty years, I...
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Stratford’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” Unveils An Intriguing Atticus Finch
STRATFORD, Ont.—It didn’t seem such a great idea 11 years ago when the Stratford Festival first...
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Stratford’s “Breathing Hole” is One for the Memory Books
STRATFORD, Ontario — Our first encounter with the mythic polar bear dominating the Stratford...
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Olivier Kemeid’s “The Aeneid” at Stratford Festival
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