Some classic Shakespeare, a Jane Austin adaptation and popular musicals highlight the Stratford Festival’s 2025 playbill.
Festival Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino says the season celebrates harmony and examines the forces that enhance it or work against it.
Included in the playbill announced Wednesday are Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Macbeth and The Winter’s Tale, along with Austin’s classic Sense and Sensibility, and, for fans of musicals, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Donna Feore returns to the festival to choreograph and direct another musical, Annie, that could be the big hit of the summer.
This season’s bill will feature a second fiery, beloved, character, in Anne of Green Gables, a Schulich Children’s Play, adopted for the festival and directed by Kat Sandler.
Tickets for the 2025 season go on sale for Stratford Festival members on Nov. 10 and to the public on Dec. 16.
The 2024 season continues until Nov. 17. For more information go to stratfordfestival.ca.
