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    Aug 7, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. What you should see at Stratford Shakespeare Festival

    STRATFORD, ONTARIO — It's not easy for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival to accommodate the beautiful mess. Its costs and budgets are massive, its theaters imposing — in its current configuration, Tanya Moiseiwitsch's famous Festival Theatre still has more than 1,800 seats — and the weight of auspicious history hangs heavy. Shows must run, in repertory, for up to four months and play well to the theater's passionate group of supporters, many of whom are retirees who journey here from Toronto, Detroit and, in their many thousands, from Chicago, taking in as many as eight different shows in a week, debating what they see fiercely in seminars and on the terraces of bed-and-breakfasts.
    STRATFORD, ONTARIO — It's not easy for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival to accommodate the beautiful mess. Its costs and budgets are massive, its theaters imposing — in its current configuration, Tanya Moiseiwitsch's famous Festival...

    Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Music, Broadway Theater, William Shakespeare, Celebrities

    2. Jul 17, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. Stratford Festival announces 2013 season, with Dennehy on board

    The Stratford Festival of Canada has announced its 2013 season, its first under new artistic (and former executive) director Antonio Cimolino. Shows in the Festival Theatre are "Romeo and Juliet" (directed by Tim Carroll), "Fiddler on the Roof" (directed...

    Tags: Broadway Theater, The Three Musketeers (movie, 2011), Brian Bedford, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events

    3. Aug 6, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. National pride, unexpectedly, in 'Henry V' at Stratford Shakespeare Festival

    STRATFORD, ONTARIO — Of all of William Shakespeare's plays, "Henry V" is the drama most often interpreted as patriotically British. In the 1944 film version, Laurence Olivier used the young king's inspiring St. Crispin's Day speech, with its soaring rhetoric hailing "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers," to inspire his countrymen to fight not against the French forces in the play but against their real-life Nazi foes. But, in this of all summers, when the Union Jack is flying across London hailing the remarkable achievements of British athletes, and when film director Danny Boyle unveiled a new and inclusive celebration of English history as the stunning opener to the Olympic Games, you just don't expect the gigantic flag that the audacious Des McAnuff unfurls at the end of "Henry V," his last Shakespeare production as artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
    STRATFORD, ONTARIO — Of all of William Shakespeare's plays, "Henry V" is the drama most often interpreted as patriotically British. In the 1944 film version, Laurence Olivier used the young king's inspiring St. Crispin's Day speech, with its soaring...

    Tags: Laurence Olivier, Danny Boyle, Arts and Culture, William Shakespeare, France

    4. Aug 3, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. From Christopher Plummer at Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 'A Word or Two'

    STRATFORD, Ontario — At the age of 82 and with his acting chops and handsome looks singularly unscathed, Christopher Plummer has earned the right to talk of death. If a man can fight back so many of its familiar ravages, you think, he must be a...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Celebrities, Festive Events, Christopher Plummer, Entertainment

    5. Mar 22, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. BROADWAY REVIEW: Savvy, bizarre, shrewd 'Jesus Christ Superstar' connects

    NEW YORK — At the top of the Broadway transfer of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Jesus Christ Superstar,” there's a clever little pre-curtain announcement, spoken by the show's director, Des McAnuff, and wisely retained from the hit Canadian production last summer: “Unwrap your candy any time you want,” it roughly goes. “The score will drown you out.”
    NEW YORK — At the top of the Broadway transfer of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Jesus Christ Superstar,” there's a clever little pre-curtain announcement, spoken by the show's...

    Tags: Music, Tim Rice, Broadway Theater, Entertainment Events, Stratford

    6. Apr 12, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. 'Jersey Boys': The musical tale of Frankie Valli is still in season

    THEATER REVIEW: "Jersey Boys" at the Bank of America Theatre ★★★★ ... You may feel like they never went away, but the lively, young, blue-collar gentlemen of the Garden State, ever working their way back to you, have returned to Chicago for a nine-week stand.
    - TIMELINE AND REVIEWS OF "JERSEY BOYS" FOR 2005-2009 You may feel like they never went away, but the lively, young, blue-collar gentlemen of the Garden State, ever working their way back to you, have returned to Chicago's Bank of America Theatre for a...

    Tags: Concerts, Music, Arts and Culture, Bank of America Corp., Economy, Business and Finance

    7. Mar 10, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Stratford Festival names new artistic director

    The Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada announced Saturday that Anthony Cimolino, its current executive director, will become its next artistic director.
    The Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada announced Saturday that Anthony Cimolino, its current executive director, will become its next artistic director. Cimolino will replace Des McAnuff, the current artistic director, who is stepping down to...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, The Grapes of Wrath (movie), Festive Events, Stratford

    8. Sep 2, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Stephen Ouimette added to 'Iceman' cast

    Stephen Ouimette, the distinguished Canadian actor known for his work at the Stratford Festival of Canada and for the cultish TV show "Slings and Arrows," has been added to the cast of Robert Falls' starry production of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman...

    Tags: Eugene O'Neill, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Stratford, Nathan Lane, Television

    9. Jul 22, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. Report from Stratford Shakespeare Fest: 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' 'Twelfth Night' and the rest

    The Stratford Festival of Canada runs in repertory in Stratford, Ontario through Oct. 30. Here's my report, including reviews of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Twelfth Night." Plus a photo gallery.
    STRATFORD, Ontario — Des McAnuff, the artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, North America's largest and arguably most prestigious, classically based theater, has announced his intention to leave his post in 2013. Personal...

    Tags: Music Industry, Broadway Theater, Titus Andronicus (music group), Behavioral Conditions, Celebrities

    10. Dec 8, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. 'Jesus Christ Superstar' recasts Pontius Pilate — again

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    The Broadway-bound revival of "Jesus Christ Superstar," currently at the La Jolla Playhouse, has been generating positive buzz since opening earlier this year at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada. But the production appears to have hit a snag...
    11. Dec 13, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  11. 2011 year in review: Best in theater

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    Theater critic Charles McNulty names the best plays he saw in 2011....
    12. Feb 23, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. What's next for Oscar nominees? Theater for some

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    George Clooney, Demian Bichir, Jessica Chastain and Christopher Plummer are among this year's crop of Oscar nominees who are taking on stage roles....
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'Jersey Boys' ★★★★