Stratford Festival review: Why We Tell The Story s thunderous debut On its first opening night after a 16-month hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stratford Festival presented its cabaret, Why We Tell The Story: A Celebration of Black Musical Theatre.
Author of the article: Galen Simmons • Stratford Beacon Herald
Publishing date: Jul 14, 2021 • 19 hours ago • 2 minute read • Neema Bickersteth co-stars in Stratford Festival s Why We Tell the Story cabaret, which opened Tuesday. (David Hou/Stratford Festival)
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A big Shakespearean production will not launch the Festival in 2021. Instead, a celebration of Black musical theatre directed and curated by singer and actor Marcus Nance will get the Festival underway on its 68th anniversary July 13.
“I think it’s quite an honour,” Nance said Friday. “Especially after we’ve been through this emotional conversation about Black lives mattering, and about George Floyd, and about inclusion, I think it’s kind of a wonderful way to start out the season.”
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The Eternal Ego Festival Announced
The Eternal Ego Festival will consist of works from the classical canon selected by key featured artists.by BWW News Desk
Today Artistic Producer Arkady Spivak announced The Eternal Ego Festival. The new programming venture will showcase nine conceptual adaptations of multi-character works, in which all roles will be played by a single actor, and in two cases by two actors, using in-person, virtual or hybrid platforms. Works will premiere gradually over the next two seasons, alongside TIFT s regular scope of programming.
The Eternal Ego Festival will consist of works from the classical canon selected by key featured artists, and will include a live cabaret-style retelling of a Greek Satyr play infused with elements of music and dance, a virtual reality hybrid interpretation of a Virginia Woolf novel, a live-streamed take on a modernist classic with elements of puppetry and many more.
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Stratford Festival outdoor summer season announced
Six plays and five cabarets will be performed at two canopies this summer from June to September By Glenn Sumi
Apr 7, 2021
This summer, Stratford will perform under canopies at the Festival Theatre (pictured) and the new Tom Patterson Theatre.
Six plays and five cabarets are on the bill for Stratford Festival’s 2021 outdoor season, to be performed – pending health precautions – under canopies starting in late June. All the works share the theme of metamorphosis, which the festival’s artistic director, Antoni Cimolino, says is significant.
“As butterflies shedding their cocoons, we are poised to emerge from this pandemic,” says Cimolino in a press release today.