FaceApp, Crane Girl, and Jon Kaplan
There won’t be any replacement. There was only Jon.
Rewriting Shakespeare
It would have been a big enough task to write using the common parlance of today, but my youthful arrogance made me want to write the play in verse.
Creative Appropriation
Diversifying our stages is not a challenge we can address solely by commissioning lots and lots of new plays.
In Conversation: Graham Abbey
“I used to recite Shakespeare in my spare time. I was a strange child.”
In Conversation: Maev Beaty
“You think the writer’s going to go away and come back with blue, red, and green. But this is where art happens, because they come back with something plaid and on fire.”
Show Announcement: The Company Theatre’s John
We have the exclusive on The Company Theatre’s newest production: John, on stage in early 2017.
Female Kings
I couldn’t just put on a moustache and hope for the best. I was having my professional Shakespeare debut as the Dauphin of France at the fucking Stratford Festival of Canada.
What’s in a Name? What’s in a Label?
I am revelling in Romeo. I have discovered there is a part of me that is unafraid to take up space.
Bringing New Life to Old Plays
Someone asked me recently: Why do we still do Shakespeare?
Casting Announcement: Shakespeare in the Ruff’s Romeo and Juliet
We have the exclusive on Shakespeare in the Ruff’s casting for this summer’s production of Romeo and Juliet.
Five Years of Love, Beer, and Shakespeare
It’s wonderful to be able to go to bed at night and turn to the person beside you and say, “What if King John was played by a woman?”
What Fools These Puppets Be
If you can perform puppet Shakespeare next to a wall of genitals, you can perform puppet Shakespeare anywhere.
8 of Stratford’s Top Double Threats
Not all great actors are also great singers, but Stratford has managed to attract a huge group of talented double threats.
Storytelling Through Song
How could I establish myself at this company, with so many impossibly talented people who had training and more experience in classical theatre, without being able to sing? It was a weird feeling.
Spotlight: Krystin Pellerin
“After a day of rehearsal as Lady Macbeth I’m craving chicken hearts, drafts of blood, and things like that.”
10 Memorable Lady Macbeths at Stratford
Roberta Maxwell! Maggie Smith! Yanna McIntosh! and other fantastic actresses who have taken on the iconic role.