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Calendar

Feb
6
Thu
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Lantern Theater
Feb 6 @ 12:15 am – Mar 16 @ 1:15 am

Lantern Theater

February 6 – March 16, 2014

Directed by Charles McMahon

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Idealism, envy, and power politics collide as the Roman Republic reaches a crisis. Caesar’s political genius, military prowess, and overwhelming popular appeal make him the most powerful leader the Republic has ever known. But his popularity breeds suspicion among his rivals and some fear Caesar’s power will corrode the freedom of the State. Shakespeare’s vision of Rome is both epic and intimate, from powerful speeches in grand public squares to whispered conspiracies in back rooms and dark hallways. There in the shadows, unlikely alliances set up a chain of events that bring down the great Caesar and thrust Rome into a disastrous civil war. Tony Award nominee Forrest McClendon leads an all-Philadelphia cast in Shakespeare’s timeless political thriller, brought to you by “the city’s top presenter of Shakespeare’s work.” (TheaterMania.com)

 

Apr
21
Mon
Crazy for You, Stratford, Ontario
Apr 21 @ 5:15 am – Oct 12 @ 6:15 am

Stratford Festival

April 21 to October 12, 2014

Directed by Donna Feore

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Sent to Deadrock, Nevada, to foreclose on a derelict theatre, banker Bobby Child falls for its owner’s daughter, Polly Baker. Can he reconcile the demands of duty and love – and his own dreams of dancing? “I Got Rhythm,” “Nice Work if You Can Get It” and “Someone to Watch Over Me” are just some of the gems in this dynamic musical’s dazzling score.

 

Apr
30
Wed
Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Stratford, Ontario
Apr 30 @ 5:00 am – Oct 12 @ 6:00 am

Stratford Festival

April 30 – Oct 12, 2014

By Lewis Carroll

Adapted for the stage by James Reaney
Directed by Jillian Keiley

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Climbing through her living-room mirror, Alice enters a world of wonders populated by such fantastical characters as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Walrus and the Carpenter – and the fearsome Jabberwock. Children and adults alike will be delighted by this spectacular journey into the topsy-turvy realm of the dreaming mind.

 

 

 

May
5
Mon
King Lear – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare
May 5 @ 6:00 am – Oct 10 @ 7:00 am

King Lear – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare
Directed by Antoni Cimolino

Festival Theatre

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About the Play

An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.
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.