Stratford, Shaw and beyond: The Globe’s 2019 summer theatre preview GlobeArts
No, the headline isn’t wrong. Spring may have only just sprung, but it is already time to start thinking about summer theatre.
Ontario’s two major destination theatre festivals kick off in the next weeks: The Shaw Festival has its first preview ofBilly Elliot: The MusicalWith box offices now open from the Charlottetown Festival in PEI to Bard on the Beach in British Columbia, here are nine exciting-looking shows that have grabbed this theatre critic’s attention at five of the country’s top theatrical destinations.
In the final year before the Tom Patterson Theatre’s $68-million replacement opens, Cimolino has programmed a couple of surefire shows such asfor the musical-theatre tourists – but it’s the classics that continue to draw die-hards from across the continent to Stratford.David Cooper/Stratford Festival
No need to spell out why it’s the right time to revive this 1779 play by the Enlightenment German playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing about religious tolerance between Christians, Jews and Muslims. A powerful drama set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, this rarely produced gem only had its Canadian professional premiere in 2004. Now, it makes its Stratford debut under the thoughtful, talented German-Canadian director Birgit Schreyer Duarte.
Michael Blake is an actor hard to pigeonhole – so expect an original take on the title role from him under the direction of Nigel Shawn Williams. Gordon S. Miller – who has made a stunning leap from second bananas to leads in the past two Stratford seasons – plays Iago, while Amelia Sargisson, who made a sensational Stratford debut inIt’s hard for a critic working for a good-old print publication not to get excited about a production of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 newspaper comedy.
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