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Bard on the Beach is Western Canada's largest professional Shakespeare festival. The theatre festival runs annually from early June through September in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The festival is produced by Bard on the Beach Theatre Society whose mandate is to provide Vancouver residents and tourists with affordable, accessible ...
February 2025. Innings Festival. Dates: February 21–22, 2025 ... March 26–30, 2025. Location: Boise, Idaho. Lineup Highlights: Sofi Tukker, Shakey Graves, Bright Eyes ... They announced this ...
From the 1950s into the 1990s, the place to beat was the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, founded by John Houseman with casts that might include the likes of Katharine Hepburn or ...
[6] [7] In 1953, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival was founded in the Canadian city of Stratford, Ontario, with Tyrone Guthrie as the festival's first Artistic Director. The New York Shakespeare Festival in New York City (now known as The Public Theater ) has produced Free Shakespeare shows since 1955.
The festival’s ambitious plan was set in motion in August 2020 when philanthropist Chris Davis — in a scene that surely must have reminded some Shakespeare fans of the start of "King Lear ...
St. Louis Shakespeare Festival began in 2001 and produced the first annual free Shakespeare festival in Forest Park with a production of Romeo and Juliet. [21] Since the initial two-week run that attracted 33,000 audience members, the Festival has grown into a year-round institution producing over 250 public performances annually for nearly ...
On October 3, 2022 the Festival announced the departure of Executive Director Frank Mack. [3] David Ivers and Brian Vaughn were named co-artistic directors in 2011. Vaughn became the sole artistic director in 2017 when Ivers left the Festival to join the Arizona Theatre Company. [4
The Festival was founded as the Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada, by Tom Patterson, a Stratford-native journalist who wanted to revitalize his town's economy by creating a theatre festival dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare, as the town shares the name of Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, England.