Stage Door News
Stage Door News
Make the most of the coming year and include a visit to Stratford in your plans! Tickets for the Stratford Festival’s 2018 season go on sale this Friday, January 5, and you can save up to 25% off in-season prices by ordering before January 31.
“Rehearsals are just about to get underway and our brilliant company of actors, directors, designers, musicians and artisans will be hard at work creating the magic that only Stratford can present,” says Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino. “Please join us for what promises to be a season of funny, moving and thought-provoking theatre – the very best of entertainment.”
The season features a dozen plays, with something for everyone. Highlights include Shakespeare’s The Tempest, featuring Martha Henry as Prospero, directed by Antoni Cimolino; Coriolanus, featuring André Sills, directed by Robert Lepage in his Festival debut; and Julius Caesar, featuring Seana McKenna in the title role, Michelle Giroux, Jonathan Goad and Irene Poole, directed by Scott Wentworth.
If the social media buzz is any indication, fans will be lining up for tickets to Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, directed and choreographed by Donna Feore, featuring Dan Chameroy, Jennifer Rider-Shaw and Sayer Roberts. Families and lovers of musical theatre will be flocking to Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, featuring Daren A. Herbert and Danielle Wade, also directed and choreographed by Donna Feore.
There’s plenty more for families, including the season’s Schulich Youth Play, To Kill a Mockingbird, featuring Jonathan Goad and Irene Poole, and directed by Nigel Shawn Williams; and Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, featuring Beryl Bain, Jessica B. Hill, Qasim Khan and Josue Laboucane, and directed by Keira Loughran.
Not to be missed are the modern classics Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill, featuring Seana McKenna and Scott Wentworth, directed by Miles Potter; the Oscar Wilde comedy An Ideal Husband, featuring Tim Campbell, Brad Hodder, Sophia Walker and Bahareh Yaraghi, directed by Lezlie Wade; and Eduardo De Filippo’s touching comedy Napoli Milionaria!, in a new translation by John Murrell, directed by Antoni Cimolino and featuring Tom McCamus and Brigit Wilson.
Two new Festival commissions will have their world premières: Brontë: The World Without, by Jordi Mand, directed by Vanessa Porteous and featuring Beryl Bain, Jessica B. Hill and Andrea Rankin; and Paradise Lost, by Erin Shields, directed by Jackie Maxwell and featuring Lucy Peacock, Qasim Kahn and Amelia Sargisson.
Tickets will be available online at stratfordfestival.ca as of noon on Friday, January 5. Phone and in-person sales start on Saturday, January 6, at 9 a.m. The box office can be reached at 1.800.567.1600.
The Stratford Festival’s 2018 season runs from April 17 to November 4.
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Stratford: Tickets for the Stratford Festival's 2018 season go on sale this Friday