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Warren Gerds column: Small Canadian town a big player in theater - Green Bay Press-Gazette

It's time to return the favor. In Stratford, townsfolk talk about plays and theater with the same fervor that people in Green Bay talk about football plays and "our" team. Time was, a Stratford native thought his too-quiet hometown on the Avon ... More...

Rehearsals Begin Tomorrow for JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR - Broadway World

Directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s Artistic Director and 2-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR opens March 22, 2012 (previews begin March 1) at the Neil Simon Theatre (250 West 52nd Street). The cast ... More...

Players making a date with the RSC - This is Gloucestershire

THE Cotswold Players are stretching their wings after being invited to perform at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The Stroud-based theatre company will perform an excerpt from A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of the highlights ... More...

Christopher Plummer’s star soars in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - The Vancouver Sun

In between, there was his celebrated performance of Julius Caesar at the Stratford Theatre Festival’s 2008 production of George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra, and last year’s Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Perhaps the best is yet to ... More...

Bard memories: why Shakespeare's Stratford deserves a second chance - The Guardian

Visiting Stratford-upon-Avon is always a curious experience ... We camped in a ridge tent at the edge of town one summer (naturally managing to avoid the theatre – didn't have the money or temperament for that). We were largely there for ... More...

Stratford festival congratulates Plummer - Metronews.ca

STRATFORD, Ont. - The cheers for Christopher Plummer continued ... where his production of "Doctor Zhivago" opens Friday at the Charlotte Theatre. "In his long and distinguished career, both on screen and on stage, Christopher Plummer has constantly ... More...

The Taming of the Shrew, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon - Financial Times

The RSC’s new production proves that this famously problematic play can still be performed as a straightforward romantic comedy The Shrew is often more problematic than any of Shakespeare’s more usually designated “problem plays”. It is, simply ... More...

A roundup of contenders for the top job at the Stratford fest - Globe and Mail

Coincidence? He told the Ottawa Citizen he was not going to another theatre, but, regarding Stratford, his spokesman told The Globe he “isn’t thinking that far ahead.” (His King Lear this spring would be a good audition piece.) After two stand-out ... More...

Premier Inn announces opening of second hotel in Stratford upon Avon - Worldnews.com

Over 1 mm of rain was recorded on 115.7 days per year, according to the 1971–2000 observation period. The first real theatre in Stratford was a temporary wooden affair built in 1769 by the actor David Garrick for his Jubilee celebrations of that year to ... More...

Stratford upon Avon: In search of the spirit of Shakespeare - Daily Telegraph

The theatre, the most prominent building in the town, is even omitted from the trust's maps of Stratford on the website and in the brochure. A spokesman for the trust said that new brochures were to be printed next week, and that the website is to be ... More...

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