1,042 stories by "Stratford Festival"
Born in Martinique in 1925, Frantz Fannon was an international political activist as well as a physician and psychiatrist. Throughout his short but very active life, he penned a number of b…
Zora Heale Hurston was born in Alabama in 1891 and became an accomplished and prolific dramatist, as well as an anthropoligist, novelist and filmmaker. Her works evoked images of life in th…
Curator Sadie Berlin and director Jordan Laffrenier discuss this hillarious and poignant play and the playwright. William Wells Brown was born into slavery and became a prominent abolitionis…
Born in Chareston, South Carolina in 1916, Alice Childress became a novelist, actress and playwright. She is acknowleged as the only Aftrican-American woman to have written, produced and pu…
Rachel Crothers is widely recognized as what editor Keith Newlin called "the most successful and prolific woman dramatist writing in the first part of the twentieth century." Hannah Rittner …
I AM WILLIAM
HER BROTHER'S NO SHAKEPEARE " BUT SHE SURE IS
August 10 - September 12, 2021
Margaret Shakespeare has a dazzling talent for writing, which she yearns to put to serious use. But…
Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Martha Henry, Lucy Peacock and Mamie Zwettler, hosted by Lois Adamson. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss this …
Cast members from the original 1986 production of Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters recall their experiences of workshopping and premièring the play.
Featuring: Sally Singal, Anne Anglin, M…
Hannah Rittner talks about the play and the extraordinary female playwright and actress of the 18th century English stage. Her guest is Roberta Barker Associate Professor of Theatre Studies,…
Enjoy some behind the scenes of this year's production of R+J, which has been produced in collaboration with Why Not Theatre.
They say that love is blind " and with blindness comes the free…
Director Ravi Jain and assistant director Christine Horne discuss their groundbreaking " and uniquely inclusive " reinvention of Shakespeare's famous love story. R + J has been produced in c…
Hannah Rittner talks about the play and the extraordinary female playwright of the Spanish Golden Age. Her guest is Robin Kello of the UCLA Working Group who translated the play in to Englis…
Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Jani Lauzon and Brefny Caribou, hosted by Stephanie Johns. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss this year's produ…
Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Gabriel Antonacci and Jacob MacInnis, hosted by Lois Adamson. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss the Play On! C…
Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Trish Lindström and André Sills, hosted by Stephanie Johns. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss this year's pr…
Welcome to the Stratford Festival's Live Viewing Party of CHILD-ish, by Sunny Drake.
What would the world be like if we let ourselves be a bit more childish? In CHILD-ish, a dynamite cast o…
Welcome to the Stratford Festival's Live Viewing Party of CHILD-ish, by Sunny Drake.
What would the world be like if we let ourselves be a bit more childish? In CHILD-ish, a dynamite cast o…
What would the world be like if we let ourselves be a bit more childish? In CHILD-ish, a dynamite cast of adult actors speak children's exact words about love, life and the world. Instead of…
Welcome to the Stratford Festival's Live Viewing Party of CHILD-ish, by Sunny Drake.
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What would the world be like if we let ourselves be a bit more c…
Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Evangelia Kambites and Thom Allison, hosted by Stephanie Johns. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss the You Can'…
Welcome to the Stratford Festival's Live Viewing Party of The Chain, part of the new works from across Canada series at STRATFEST@HOME.
Tullio Testa is a landscape contractor anxious to pre…
Welcome to the Stratford Festival's Live Viewing Party of The Chain, part of the new works from across Canada series at STRATFEST@HOME.
Tullio Testa is a landscape contractor anxious to pre…
Welcome to the Stratford Festival's Live Viewing Party of The Chain, part of the new works from across Canada series at STRATFEST@HOME.
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Tullio Testa…
Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Vanessa Sears and Marcus Nance. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss the Why We Tell The Story Cabaret.
WHY WE T…
Thom Allison discusses his cabaret-style homage to musical theatre and its power to raise our spirits in even the darkest times.
Whether you'll be seeing shows in person or virtually, dig d…