Stratford Shakespeare Festival production history

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This page describes the production history of the Stratford Festival.

The Stratford Festival (formerly known as the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the Stratford Festival of Canada, and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival) is a summer-long celebration of theatre held each year in Stratford, Ontario.[1] Theatre-goers, actors, and playwrights flock to Stratford to take part—many of the greatest Canadian, American and British actors have played roles at Stratford. It was one of the first and is still one of the most prominent arts festivals in Canada.

The Festival's primary mandate is to present productions of Shakespeare's plays, but it also produces a wide variety of theatre from Greek tragedy to Broadway musicals to contemporary works. By 2017, only three of the 14 productions were based on Shakespeare's works.[2] The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged as part of the Stratford Festival since its inception.

On February 17, 2015, AP News reported that the Stratford Festival plans to film all of Shakespeare's plays.[3]

1953[]

1954[]

  • Measure for Measure – by William Shakespeare
  • The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
  • Oedipus Rex – by Sophocles

1955[]

  • Julius Caesar – by William Shakespeare
  • King Oedipus – by Sophocles
  • The Merchant of Venice – by William Shakespeare

1956[]

1957[]

  • Hamlet – by William Shakespeare
  • Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
  • My Fur Lady – by Galt MacDermot
  • The Turn of the Screw – composed by Benjamin Britten, libretto by Myfanwy Piper
  • Peer Gynt – by Henrik Ibsen

1958[]

1959[]

  • As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
  • Othello – by William Shakespeare
  • Orpheus in the Underworld – by Jacques Offenbach
  • The Heart Is Highland – by Robert Kemp

1960[]

  • King John – by William Shakespeare
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • H.M.S. Pinafore – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert

1961[]

1962[]

  • The Pirates of Penzance – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
  • The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
  • The Tempest – by William Shakespeare
  • The Gondoliers – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • Cyrano de Bergerac – by Edmond Rostand

1963[]

  • Troilus and Cressida – by William Shakespeare
  • Cyrano de Bergerac – by Edmond Rostand
  • The Comedy of Errors – by William Shakespeare
  • The Mikado – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • Timon of Athens – by William Shakespeare

1964[]

  • Love's Labour's Lost – by William Shakespeare
  • Le Bourgeois gentilhomme – by Molière
  • Timon of Athens – by William Shakespeare
  • Richard II – by William Shakespeare
  • King Lear – by William Shakespeare
  • The Yeomen of the Guard – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • The Country Wife – by William Wycherley
  • The Marriage of Figaro – by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1965[]

  • Henry IV, Part 1 – by William Shakespeare
  • Henry IV, Part 2 – by William Shakespeare
  • Julius Caesar – by William Shakespeare
  • Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny – by Kurt Weill, libretto by Bertolt Brecht
  • The Marriage of Figaro – by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The Cherry Orchard – by Anton Chekhov

1966[]

  • Henry V – by William Shakespeare
  • Henry VI – by William Shakespeare
  • Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
  • Don Giovanni – by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The Last of the Tsars – by Michael Bawtree
  • The Dance of Death – by August Strindberg

1967[]

1968[]

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • Tartuffe – by Molière
  • Cinderella – by Gioacchino Rossini
  • The Three Musketeers – by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Seagull – by Anton Chekhov
  • Waiting for Godot – by Samuel Beckett

1969[]

1970[]

1971[]

  • Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare
  • The Duchess of Malfi – by John Webster
  • Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
  • An Italian Straw Hat – by Eugène Labiche
  • The Red Convertible – by
  • Volpone – by Ben Jonson
  • – by Georges Feydeau

1972[]

  • As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
  • Lorenzaccio – by Alfred de Musset
  • King Lear – by William Shakespeare
  • The Threepenny Opera – by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
  • Orpheus
  • She Stoops to Conquer – by Oliver Goldsmith
  • Pinocchio – by
  • – by Roch Carrier

1973[]

  • The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
  • King Lear – by William Shakespeare
  • She Stoops to Conquer – by Oliver Goldsmith
  • Othello – by William Shakespeare
  • A Month in the Country – by Ivan Turgenev
  • The Collected Works of Billy the Kid – by Michael Ondaatje
  • Pericles – by William Shakespeare
  • – by Henry Beissel
  • The Marriage Brokers – by Nikolai Gogol
  • Exiles – by James Joyce

1974[]

1975[]

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona – by William Shakespeare
  • The Comedy of Errors – by William Shakespeare
  • Saint Joan – by George Bernard Shaw
  • Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
  • Measure for Measure – by William Shakespeare
  • The Crucible – by Arthur Miller
  • Trumpets and Drums – by Bertolt Brecht
  • The Fool – by Harry Somers and
  • Le Magicien – by Jean Vallerand
  • Ariadne Auf Naxos – by Richard Strauss
  • – by Michael Tait
  • – by Maxim Mazumdar
  • Kennedy's Children
  • The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde

1976[]

  • Hamlet – by William Shakespeare
  • The Way of the World – by William Congreve
  • The Merchant of Venice – by William Shakespeare
  • The Tempest – by William Shakespeare
  • Antony and Cleopatra – by William Shakespeare
  • The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
  • Measure for Measure – by William Shakespeare
  • Eve – by Larry Fineberg
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
  • Three Sisters – by Anton Chekhov

1977[]

1978[]

1979[]

  • Shakespeare Gala
  • Love's Labour's Lost – by William Shakespeare
  • – by
  • Henry IV, Part 1 – by William Shakespeare
  • Henry IV, Part 2 – by William Shakespeare
  • Richard II – by William Shakespeare
  • The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
  • Happy New Year – book by Burt Shevelove, music and lyrics by Cole Porter
  • The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
  • – by Edward Bond
  • Othello – by William Shakespeare
  • – by
  • Barren/Yerma – by Federico García Lorca
  • King Lear – by William Shakespeare

1980[]

  • The Beggar's Opera – by John Gay
  • Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
  • Henry V – by William Shakespeare
  • Virginia – by Edna O'Brien
  • The Servant of Two Masters – by Carlo Goldoni
  • Titus Andronicus – by William Shakespeare
  • The Gin Game – by Donald L. Coburn
  • Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare
  • Bosoms and Neglect – by John Guare
  • Brief Lives – by Patrick Garland, based on the writings of John Aubrey
  • Foxfire – by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn
  • The Seagull – by Anton Chekhov
  • Henry VI – by William Shakespeare
  • King Lear – by William Shakespeare
  • Long Day's Journey into Night – by Eugene O'Neill

1981[]

1982[]

1983[]

  • Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
  • The Gondoliers – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
  • Richard II – by William Shakespeare
  • Blake – by Elliott Hayes
  • Damien
  • The Mikado – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • The Country Wife – by William Wycherley
  • Tartuffe – by Molière
  • Love's Labour's Lost – by William Shakespeare
  • Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare
  • Death of a Salesman – by Arthur Miller

1984[]

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
  • Iolanthe – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • Love's Labour's Lost – by William Shakespeare
  • The Gondoliers – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • Waiting for Godot – by Samuel Beckett
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona – by William Shakespeare
  • The Mikado – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • Tartuffe – by Molière
  • Henry IV, Part 1 – by William Shakespeare
  • The Merchant of Venice – by William Shakespeare
  • A Streetcar Named Desire – by Tennessee Williams
  • Separate Tables – by Terence Rattigan

1985[]

1986[]

The 1986 season was staged by Artistic Director John Neville with Shakespeare plays produced against a modern play with similar themes or characters (i.e. Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead).[4]

1987[]

Artistic Director John Neville staged the 1987 season with an Anti-War theme.[4]

  • Cabaret – book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, music by John Kander
  • – by Henrik Ibsen
  • Mother Courage – by Bertolt Brecht
  • As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
  • Troilus and Cressida – by William Shakespeare
  • The School for Scandal – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • The Cherry Orchard – by Anton Chekhov
  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • Not About Heroes – by Stephen MacDonald
  • – by Richard Epp
  • Journey's End – by R. C. Sherriff
  • Othello – by William Shakespeare
  • Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare

1988[]

  • Richard III – by William Shakespeare
  • All's Well That Ends Well – by William Shakespeare
  • The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
  • Murder in the Cathedral – by T. S. Eliot
  • Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
  • My Fair Lady – book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe
  • King Lear – by William Shakespeare
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona – by William Shakespeare
  • Not About Heroes – by Stephen MacDonald
  • The Three Musketeers – by Alexandre Dumas
  • Irma La Douce – music by Marguerite Monnot, lyrics and book by Alexandre Breffort
  • Oedipus / The Critic – by Sophocles / Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1989[]

1990[]

1991[]

  • Hamlet – by William Shakespeare
  • Carousel – by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare
  • Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
  • Homeward Bound – by Elliott Hayes
  • Les Belles Soeurs – by Michel Tremblay
  • Our Town – by Thornton Wilder
  • Timon of Athens – by William Shakespeare
  • Homeward Bound – by Elliott Hayes
  • The Knight of the Burning Pestle – by Francis Beaumont
  • Rules of the Game – by [Luigi Pirandello]
  • Treasure Island – by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Love Letters – by A. R. Gurney

1992[]

  • The Tempest – by William Shakespeare
  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • Love's Labour's Lost – by William Shakespeare
  • Measure for Measure – by William Shakespeare
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona – by William Shakespeare
  • H.M.S. Pinafore – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • World of Wonders – by Robertson Davies – adapted by Elliott Hayes
  • Entertaining Mr. Sloane – by Joe Orton
  • Uncle Vanya – by Anton Chekhov
  • – by Michel Tremblay
  • Shirley Valentine – by Willy Russell

1993[]

  • Antony and Cleopatra – by William Shakespeare
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
  • Gypsy – music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Arthur Laurents
  • The Imaginary Invalid – by Molière
  • The Mikado – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
  • King John – by William Shakespeare
  • – by Dan Needles
  • Bacchae – by Euripides
  • – by Sharon Pollock
  • The Illusion – by Pierre Corneille

1994[]

1995[]

1996[]

  • King Lear – by William Shakespeare
  • The Music Man – by Meredith Willson
  • Amadeus – by Peter Shaffer
  • The Little Foxes – by Lillian Hellman
  • – by Georges Feydeau
  • The Merchant of Venice – by William Shakespeare
  • Alice Through the Looking Glass – by Lewis Carroll
  • As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
  • Sweet Bird of Youth – by Tennessee Williams
  • Waiting for Godot – by Samuel Beckett
  • Barrymore - by William Luce

1997[]

  • Camelot – by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
  • The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • Oedipus Rex – by Sophocles
  • Death of a Salesman – by Arthur Miller
  • Little Women – by Louisa May Alcott
  • Filumena – by Eduardo De Filippo
  • Richard III – by William Shakespeare
  • Juno and the Paycock – by Seán O'Casey
  • Coriolanus – by William Shakespeare
  • Wingfield Unbound – by Dan Needles
  • Equus – by Peter Shaffer

1998[]

1999[]

  • The Tempest – by William Shakespeare
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
  • Pride and Prejudice – by Jane Austen
  • The Alchemist – by Ben Jonson
  • The School for Scandal – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Dracula: A Chamber Musical – book and lyrics by Richard Ouzounian, music by
  • West Side Story – book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
  • Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
  • – by David Young
  • Richard II – by William Shakespeare

2000[]

  • Hamlet – by William Shakespeare
  • As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
  • Titus Andronicus – by William Shakespeare
  • Fiddler on the Roof – music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein
  • Tartuffe – by Molière
  • The Diary of Anne Frank – by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
  • Patience – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • Medea – by Euripides
  • Elizabeth Rex – by Timothy Findley
  • The Three Musketeers – by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde

2001[]

2002[]

  • All's Well That Ends Well – by William Shakespeare
  • My Fair Lady – book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe
  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • King Lear – by William Shakespeare
  • The Threepenny Opera – by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel – by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • Richard III: Reign of Terror – by William Shakespeare
  • Henry VI: Revenge in France – by William Shakespeare
  • Henry VI: Revolt in England – by William Shakespeare
  • The Two Noble Kinsmen – by William Shakespeare
  • – adapted by Brian Bedford
  • / – by Paul Dunn /
  • / – by Ian Ross / Federico Fellini, adapted by
  • / – by / Timothy Findley
  • – by Peter Hinton

2003[]

  • The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
  • The King and I – by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
  • The Adventures of Pericles – by William Shakespeare
  • Love's Labour's Lost – by William Shakespeare
  • Gigi – book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame – by Victor Hugo
  • Present Laughter – by Noël Coward
  • Antony and Cleopatra – by William Shakespeare
  • No Exit – by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • The Birds – by Aristophanes
  • Troilus and Cressida – by William Shakespeare
  • – by Anne Chislett
  • Agamemnon – by Aeschylus
  • Electra – by Jean Giraudoux
  • The Flies – by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • – by Peter Hinton

2004[]

2005[]

2006[]

2007[]

2008[]

2009[]

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
  • Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
  • Julius Caesar – by William Shakespeare
  • Bartholomew Fair – by Ben Jonson
  • Cyrano de Bergerac – by Edmond Rostand
  • Three Sisters – by Anton Chekhov
  • The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
  • Phèdre – by Jean Racine
  • – by Morris Panych
  • Zastrozzi – by George F. Walker
  • – by Sunil Kuruvilla
  • West Side Story – book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
  • A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum – music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart

2010[]

  • The Tempest – by William Shakespeare
  • As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
  • The Winter's Tale – by William Shakespeare
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona – by William Shakespeare
  • – by Leon Pownall
  • Kiss Me, Kate – by Cole Porter
  • Dangerous Liaisons – by Christopher Hampton
  • Evita – book by Arthur Laurents, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice
  • Peter Pan – by J.M. Barrie
  • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris – by Jacques Brel and Eric Blau
  • – by George F. Walker
  • – by Michel Tremblay

2011[]

  • Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor – by William Shakespeare
  • Titus Andronicus – by William Shakespeare
  • Richard III – by William Shakespeare
  • Camelot – by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
  • Jesus Christ Superstar – by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
  • The Grapes of Wrath – by Frank Galati
  • The Homecoming – by Harold Pinter
  • The Misanthrope – by Molière
  • Hosanna – by Michel Tremblay
  • The Little Years – by John Mighton
  • Shakespeare's Will – by Vern Thiessen

2012[]

  • Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare
  • 42nd Street – book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren
  • Henry V – by William Shakespeare
  • The Matchmaker – by Thornton Wilder
  • – by Christopher Plummer
  • The Pirates of Penzance – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown – music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on characters created by Charles M. Schulz
  • Cymbeline – by William Shakespeare
  • Elektra – by Sophocles
  • – by Morris Panych, music by
  • – by and Paul Thompson
  • – by Daniel MacIvor
  • MacHomer – by Rick Miller
  • The War of 1812 - by Michael Hollingsworth

2013[]

The 2013 season was staged by Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino around the themes of Societies Divided and The Outsider

  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • Fiddler on the Roof – music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein
  • The Three Musketeers – by , adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Merchant of Venice – by William Shakespeare
  • Blithe Spirit – by Noël Coward
  • The Who's Tommy - by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff
  • Othello – by William Shakespeare
  • Measure for Measure – by William Shakespeare
  • Mary Stuart – by Friedrich Schiller
  • Waiting for Godot – by Samuel Beckett
  • – by John Murrell
  • – by Judith Thompson

2014[]

The 2014 season was staged by Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino around the theme of Madness: Minds Pushed to the Edge

  • King Lear – by William Shakespeare
  • Crazy for You – book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, music by George Gershwin
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
  • The Beaux' Stratagem – by George Farquhar
  • Hay Fever – by Noël Coward
  • Man of La Mancha – book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, music by Mitch Leigh
  • Alice Through the Looking Glass – by Lewis Carroll, adapted by James Reaney
  • Mother Courage – by Bertolt Brecht
  • King John – by William Shakespeare
  • Antony and Cleopatra – by William Shakespeare
  • – by Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau

2015[]

The 2015 season was staged by Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino around the theme of Discovery, with a selection of 13 plays that explore "eureka" moments

2016[]

The 2016 season was staged by Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino around the theme of After the Victory

  • Shakespeare in Love - by Lee Hall, adapted from the screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman
  • - adapted by Graham Abbey, based on four plays by William Shakespeare
  • As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
  • Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
  • A Chorus Line - music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, book by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante
  • A Little Night Music - music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler
  • Bunny - by Hannah Moscovitch
  • John Gabriel Borkman - by Henrik Ibsen
  • The Hypochondriac - by Richard Bean
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - by C.S. Lewis, adapted by Adrian Mitchell
  • All My Sons - by Arthur Miller
  • The Aeneid - adapted by Olivier Kemeid, translated by

2017[]

The 2017 season was staged by Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino around the theme of Questions of Identity

  • Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • Tartuffe – by Molière
  • Guys and Dolls – music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
  • H.M.S. Pinafore – music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
  • Treasure Island – by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The School for Scandal – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • The Komagata Maru Incident – by Sharon Pollock
  • – by Colleen Murphy
  • – by Kate Hennig
  • Bakkhai – by Euripides
  • The Changeling – by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
  • The Madwoman of Chaillot – by Jean Giraudoux
  • Timon of Athens – by William Shakespeare

2018[]

For the 2018 season, Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino has chosen 12 productions that explore the theme of Free Will

2019[]

For the 2019 season, Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino has chosen 12 productions that explore the theme of Breaking Boundaries

  • Othello – by William Shakespeare
  • Billy Elliot the Musical – Book and Lyrics by Lee Hall, music by Elton John
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor – by William Shakespeare
  • Henry VIII – by William Shakespeare
  • The Crucible – by Arthur Miller
  • The Neverending Story – by Michael Ende, adapted for the stage by David S. Craig
  • Little Shop of Horrors – Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken
  • – by Wajdi Mouawad, English translation by Linda Gaboriau
  • The Front Page – by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
  • Nathan the Wise – by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, in a version by Edward Kemp
  • Private Lives – by Noël Coward
  • – by Kate Hennig

2020[]

The 2020 season was to mark the opening of the new Tom Patterson Theatre Centre.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stratford Festival announced on April 27, 2020 that the entire season was on hold. The Festival made a number of video productions from previous seasons and new video material, recorded during what would have been the season, available on the Festival website and on YouTube. The Festival had previously cancelled all performances between April and June due to COVID-19.[5]

  • Richard III – by William Shakespeare
  • All's Well That Ends Well – by William Shakespeare
  • – music and lyrics by Steven Page, book by Daniel MacIvor, additional music and lyrics by Craig Northey
  • – by Morris Panych, based on the novel by Mary Shelley
  • – by Rebecca Northan
  • Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare
  • Chicago – music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse
  • Hamlet – by William Shakespeare
  • The Miser – by Molière, translated by Ranjit Bolt
  • Wendy & Peter Pan – by Ella Hickson, from the book by J.M. Barrie
  • Monty Python's Spamalot – book and lyrics by Eric Idle, music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle
  • Wolf Hall – by Hilary Mantel, adapted for the stage by Mike Poulton
  • Three Tall Women – by Edward Albee
  • The Rez Sisters – by Thomson Highway
  • – by Ann-Marie MacDonald

2021[]

In April 2021, the Stratford Festival announced a season of plays and cabarets which are take place in the open air with reduced cast sizes and social distancing. The theme for the 2021 season is metamorphosis.[6]

Plays

Cabarets

  • Why We Tell the Story: A Celebration of Black Musical Theatre – curated and directed by
  • You Can't Stop the Beat: The Enduring Power of Musical Theatre – curated and directed by Thom Allison
  • Play On! A Shakespeare-Inspired Mixtape – curated and directed by , and
  • Freedom: Spirit and Legacy of Black Music – curated and directed by
  • Finally There's Sun: A Cabaret of Resilience – curated and directed by and Steve Ross

2022[]

  • Hamlet – by William Shakespeare
  • Chicago – music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse
  • The Miser – by Molière, translated by Ranjit Bolt
  • Richard III – by William Shakespeare
  • All's Well That Ends Well – by William Shakespeare
  • Death and the King's Horseman – by Wole Soyinka
  • Little Women – by Louisa May Alcott, adapted by
  • – by
  • – by Ann-Marie MacDonald
  • – by Jani Lauzon and

Frequency of production of Shakespeare's plays[]

Comedies

  • The Tempest - 1962, 1976, 1982, 1992, 1999, 2005, 2010, 2018
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona - 1975, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1998, 2010
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor - 1956, 1967, 1978, 1982, 1990, 1995, 2011, 2019
  • Measure for Measure - 1954, 1969, 1975, 1976, 1985, 1992, 2005, 2013
  • The Comedy of Errors - 1963, 1975, 1981, 1989, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2018
  • Much Ado About Nothing - 1959, 1971, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1998, 2006, 2012
  • Love's Labour's Lost - 1961, 1974, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1992, 2003, 2008, 2015
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream - 1960, 1968, 1976, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1993, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2021
  • The Merchant of Venice - 1955, 1970, 1976, 1984, 1989, 1996, 2001, 2007, 2013
  • As You Like It - 1959, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2016
  • The Taming of the Shrew - 1954, 1962, 1973, 1979, 1981, 1988, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2015
  • All's Well That Ends Well - 1953, 1977, 1982, 1988, 2002, 2008, 2022
  • Twelfth Night - 1957, 1966, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2017
  • The Winter's Tale - 1958, 1978, 1986, 1998, 2010
  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre - 1973, 1974, 1986, 2003, 2015
  • The Two Noble Kinsmen - 2002

Histories

  • King John - 1960, 1974, 1993, 2004, 2014
  • Richard II - 1964, 1979, 1983, 1999, 2016
  • Henry IV, Part 1 - 1958, 1965, 1979, 1984, 2001, 2006, 2016
  • Henry IV, Part 2 - 1965, 1979, 2001, 2016
  • Henry V - 1966, 1980, 1989, 2001, 2012, 2016
  • Henry VI, Part 1 - 1966, 1980, 2002
  • Henry VI, Part 2 - 1966, 1980, 2002
  • Henry VI, Part 3 - 1966, 1980, 2002
  • Richard III - 1953, 1967, 1977, 1988, 1997, 2002, 2011, 2022
  • Henry VIII - 1961, 1986, 2004, 2019

Tragedies

  • Troilus and Cressida - 1963, 1987, 2003
  • Coriolanus - 1961, 1981, 1997, 2006, 2018
  • Titus Andronicus - 1978, 1980, 1989, 2000, 2011
  • Romeo and Juliet - 1960, 1968, 1977, 1984, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2008, 2013, 2017, 2021
  • Timon of Athens - 1963, 1991, 2004, 2017
  • Julius Caesar - 1955, 1965, 1978, 1982, 1990, 1998, 2009, 2018
  • Macbeth - 1962, 1971, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1990, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2016
  • Hamlet - 1957, 1969, 1976, 1986, 1991, 1994, 2000, 2008, 2015, 2022
  • King Lear - 1964, 1971, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1996, 2002, 2007, 2014
  • Othello - 1959, 1973, 1979, 1987, 1994, 2007, 2013, 2019
  • Antony and Cleopatra - 1967, 1976, 1993, 2003, 2014
  • Cymbeline - 1970, 1986, 2004, 2012

Note: All 3 parts of Henry VI were performed in 1966 and 1980 in an abridged version. In 2002, using the Barton/Hall method of combining 1 Henry VI with the first half of 2 Henry VI, and the second half of 2 Henry VI with 3 Henry VI, the plays were renamed Henry VI: Revenge in France and Henry VI: Revolt in England. In 2016, "Richard II" and "1 Henry IV" were combined as were "2 Henry IV" and "Henry V". The Plays were renamed "Breath of Kings: Rebellion" and "Breath of Kings: Redemption".

Works by other authors produced three times or more[]

  • Alice Through the Looking Glass - 1994, 1996, 2014
  • The Cherry Orchard - 1965, 1987, 1998
  • Cyrano de Bergerac - 1962/1963, 1994, 2009
  • The Gondoliers - 1962, 1983/1984, 1995
  • Guys and Dolls - 1990, 2004, 2017
  • H.M.S. Pinafore - 1960, 1981, 1992, 2017
  • The Importance of Being Earnest - 1975/1976, 1979, 1993, 2009
  • Long Day's Journey into Night - 1980, 1994/1995, 2018
  • The Mikado - 1963, 1982/1983/1984, 1993
  • The Music Man - 1996, 2008, 2018
  • Oedipus Rex - 1954/1955, 1988, 1997, 2015
  • The Pirates of Penzance - 1961/1962, 1985, 1994, 2012
  • Private Lives - 1978, 2001, 2019
  • The School for Scandal - 1970, 1987, 1999, 2017
  • She Stoops to Conquer - 1972/1973, 1985, 2015
  • Tartuffe - 1968/1969, 1983/1984, 2000, 2017
  • The Three Musketeers - 1968, 1988, 2000, 2013
  • Waiting for Godot - 1968, 1984, 1996, 1998, 2013

References[]

  1. ^ CBC Arts report, July 17, 2007
  2. ^ "WHAT'S ON". Stratford Festival. Stratford Festival. 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2017. DISCOVER OUR 2017 PLAYBILL
  3. ^ Kennedy, Mark (February 17, 2015). "Stratford Festival plans to film all Shakespeare's plays". AP News. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Robert Cushman, Stratford Festival of Canada. Fifty Seasons at Stratford. Madison Press Books. ISBN 1-895892-15-5
  5. ^ "Stratford Festival puts entire 2020 season on hold". 27 April 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  6. ^ "Stratford Festival". Stratford Festival.

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