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NOW Magazine Stratford Festival outdoor summer season announced Six plays and five cabarets will be performed at two canopies this summer from June to September By Glenn Sumi Apr 7, 2021 This summer, Stratford will perform under canopies at the Festival Theatre (pictured) and the new Tom Patterson Theatre. Six plays and five cabarets are on the bill for Stratford Festival’s 2021 outdoor season, to be performed – pending health precautions – under canopies starting in late June. A...

Stratford Festival Announces 2021 Outdoor Season Featuring Plays & Musical Cabarets Starring Canadas Top Talent Six plays and five cabarets will grace the outdoor Stratford stages this summer.by BWW News Desk The Stratford Festival is transforming, for this summer, into an outdoor festival offering a season of six plays and five cabarets reflecting on the theme of Metamorphosis, with performances held under beautiful canopies that will hark back to the Festivals founding under a tent in 1953. ...

Article content From tragedy comes change. For the Stratford Festival, the tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic not only transformed the way this season’s six plays and five cabarets will be presented, it changed how we see ourselves as individuals, its artistic director days, shining a spotlight on our collective impact on society and the world around us. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Stratford Festival emerges from COVID cocoon with drastically d...

UPI Archives By (0) LONDON, March 17 -- Britains Queen Elizabeth II and her daughter Princess Anne visited the Scottish town of Dunblane Sunday where 16 children and their teacher were gunned down last week. They met with staff from the Dunblane primary school and emergency services who were involved in the massacre and its aftermath. The queen laid a wreath outside the Dunblane Primary School where the gunman found his victims. She then visited Stirling Royal Infirmary, where five childre...

‘These are superspreader settings’: Maskless crowds seen after S.C. bar restrictions lifted ‘These are superspreader settings’: Maskless crowds seen after S.C. bar restrictions lifted By Rob Way and Jared Kofsky | March 11, 2021 at 7:00 PM EST - Updated March 12 at 4:44 PM CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - An infectious disease expert said a surge in COVID-19 cases is “likely” over the next few weeks and months after videos show crowded bars in downtown Charleston. ...

Exclusive: Dark Horse Comics To Publish FALCONSPEARE by Mike Mignola & Warwick Johnson-Cadwell Were thrilled to exclusively report that Dark Horse Comics is set to publish FALCONSPEARE by Mike Mignola & Warwick Johnson-Cadwell this fall! By Josh Millican This fall, Dark Horse Comics will publish Falconspeare, an original graphic novel featuring Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell’s characters Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. K...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolinas public health workers have been tasked with...

  TORONTO -- While Black History Month celebrates the legacy of Black trailblazers, some advocates say many accomplishments and contributions made by Black LGBTQ+ people are often overlooked, resulting in a lack of community supports and inclusion. Robert Ball, of the Black Gay Mens Network of Ontario, told CTVs Your Morning on Wednesday that there was "very little" support for Black gay men living in Canada until his group was created in 2018. "Our network form[ed] because there were diff...

Article content Stratford Festival veteran Marcus Nance is no stranger to small, intimate cabarets, the type of casual musical performances found at cosy downtown clubs before they were sacrificed in this era of physical distancing. But what about a cabaret curated by Nance himself about his own life experiences, past and present, performed on the famous Festival Theatre stage, thoughtfully recorded and then broadcast on YouTube to theatre fans in Stratford and across the globe? We apologize, b...

Article content STRATFORD – Live theatre is still be out of the question, but Stratford Festival fans still have plenty to look forward to in 2021, including new content and the return of its Thursday night online viewing parties. The festival has announced that three of its filmed Shakespeare productions and 10 weeks of original programming safely created during the pandemic will be free to watch for a limited time on YouTube, beginning Thursday with The Merry Wives of Windsor. We apologize,...