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The musical was announced to make its world premiere as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's winter 2020 season, running in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic , the production was postponed to run over the 2021 winter season running from 18 October 2021 to 1 January 2022.
In 1986 or 1988 [a] the theatre closed. [2] In 1991 a non-profit [5] trust, the Stratford District Theatre Trust, was formed with the intent of purchasing the theatre and restoring it. [1] The trust was formed following a successful Shakespeare Festival in town the year prior. Films were screened again in 1992 and continue to be shown. [2]
A cast recording featuring the original Stratford-upon-Avon cast was released on 4 December 2020 on CD, iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music. It features 21 tracks including 2 bonus demo tracks "If I Don't Cry" and "A House Without A Mum" by co-songwriter Robbie Williams.
Vaughan Williams was engaged to write incidental music at Stratford between 1912 and 1913. Rosabel Watson directed and arranged music for many productions at Stratford and elsewhere. [3] A Shakespeare Music Catalogue (1991) lists over 20,000 items of theatrical and non-theatrical music associated with Shakespeare, much of it unpublished. [4]
The Royal Shakespeare Company had renovated the Royal Shakespeare Theatre as part of a £112.8m Transformation project which included the creation of a new 1040+ seat, thrust stage auditorium which brought actors and audiences closer together, with the distance of the furthest seat from the stage being reduced from 27 metres (89 ft) to 15 metres (49 ft).
William Shakespeare himself worked in an open-air theater, and countless theater companies have followed his lead, staging the bard’s immortal plays in city parks or on the lawns outside their ...
The Hartford Courant has posted a poorly-organized but nearly complete history of productions at the theater. [7] It was the home of the American Shakespeare Festival. [8] The last full season of the festival as a producing organization was 1982. The last production on the theater stage was a one-person show of The Tempest in September 1989. [1]
The Stratford Festival is a theatre festival which runs from April to October in the city of Stratford, Ontario, Canada. [1] Founded by local journalist Tom Patterson in 1952, the festival was formerly known as the Stratford Shakespearean Festival , the Shakespeare Festival and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival .