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May
8
Thu
Man of La Mancha, Stratford, Ontario
May 8 @ 5:00 am – Oct 11 @ 6:00 am

Stratford Festival

May 8 – Oct 11, 2014

Written by Dale Wasserman

Directed by Robert McQueen

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Awaiting trial by the Inquisition, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes is assailed by his fellow prisoners, who try to seize the manuscript of his masterpiece, Don Quixote. His inspired response: a challenge to join him in staging his stirring tale of Quixote’s obsessive quest to attain an impossible dream.

 

 

 

May
15
Thu
Mother Courage and Her Children, Stratford, Ontario
May 15 @ 5:00 am – Sep 21 @ 6:00 am

Stratford Festival

May 15 – Sept 21, 2014

By Bertolt Brecht

Translated by David Edgar
Directed by Martha Henry

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As the Thirty Years’ War swirls around her, Mother Courage scrapes together a living for herself and her three children by selling provisions to Protestant and Catholic combatants alike. But as she hauls her wagon across the battlefields of Europe, she discovers that the very chaos that sustains her will eventually cost her everything she holds most dear.

 

 

 

Fairyworlds!, Southwest Shakespeare Co
May 15 @ 7:00 am – Jun 1 @ 8:00 am

Southwest Shakespeare Company

May 15 – June 1, 2014

Desert Botanical Garden
1201 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, AZ

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A new adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal A Midsummer Night’s Dream in partnership with the Desert Botanical Garden.
This new vision will include bold visual elements, stunning costumes, lighting and stage magic designed to highlight the Garden. Two seating options are available: general admission and reserved bistro seating for four. If you would like reserved seating, let us seat you at a bistro table. Guests can purchase food & a full cash bar will be available.

May
16
Fri
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare
May 16 @ 6:00 am – Oct 11 @ 7:00 am

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare
Directed by Chris Abraham

Festival Theatre
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About the Play

Threatened with death if she marries against her father’s wishes, Hermia elopes with her lover, Lysander, pursued by rival suitor Demetrius and his spurned admirer, Helena. In the enchanted woods, love’s lunacy reaches its giddiest heights – both for the bewildered couples and for an aspiring actor transformed into the unlikely consort of a fairy queen.

 

 

 

May
28
Wed
Hay Fever, Stratford, Ontario
May 28 @ 5:00 am – Oct 11 @ 6:00 am

Stratford Festival

May 28 – Oct 11, 2014

By Noël Coward

Directed by Alisa Palmer

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Stage star Judith Bliss, her novelist husband and their two grown children have each invited houseguests for the weekend. But as the Blisses indulge their artistic eccentricities in a hilarious whirlwind of flirtation and histrionics, the guests begin to wonder if they’ve landed in a madhouse – and if they can survive the weekend with their own wits intact.

 

 

 

The Tempest, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ
May 28 @ 7:45 pm – Sep 15 @ 8:45 pm

The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ

Begins May 28

Directed by Bonnie J. Monte

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Artistic Director Bonnie J. Monte directs The Tempest for the first time since 1991, her inaugural production at The Shakespeare Theatre. Prestigious company veteran Sherman Howard, an actor Ms. Monte describes as “a force of nature in himself,” will portray Prospero, the powerful magician who rules over his enchanted island home.