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Oct 31, 2012 · The Stratford Festival (named the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1953–57; Stratford Festival, 1957–99; Stratford Festival of Canada, 2000–08; Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 2008–12) is an annual repertory theatre festival.
When the railway industry pulled out of Stratford in the early 1950s, journalist Tom Patterson had an idea for breathing new life into his native city’s economy: a festival of Shakespearean theatre. In January 22, 1952, City Council gave him a grant of $125 to seek artistic advice in New York.
The first of many years of Stratford Shakespeare Festival production history started with a six-week season opening on 13 July 1953 with Richard III and then All's Well That Ends Well, both starring Alec Guinness.
Jul 13, 2018 · The realization of Tom Patterson's dream of a Shakespearean festival in Stratford began on opening night July 13, 1953.
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 Gilbert and Sullivan to Broadway musicals to contemporary works.
Sep 11, 2024 · Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Canadian summer theatrical festival in Stratford, Ontario. It was founded by the journalist Tom Patterson in 1953; among its first artistic directors was Tyrone Guthrie. It includes four permanent theatres: the open-stage Festival Theatre, the Avon Theatre, the Tom.
Jul 13, 2023 · July 13, 1953, the opening night of the Stratford Festival. It marked the culmination of a project that had gone from a pitch to city council to reality in just over a year — and then changed the face of Canadian theatre.
