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Stratford Festival announces 2022 season with 10 major productions

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The Stratford Festival has announced the lineup for its 2022 season and organizers say the festival is “coming back big” to mark a number of milestones.

Next year, the festival will celebrate its 70th season, the 20th anniversary of the Studio Theatre, the 10th Meighen Forum season and the grand opening of the $72-million Tom Patterson Theatre, which was scheduled to open in the spring of 2020.

The festival will feature 10 major productions – including Hamlet, Death and the King’s Horseman and Little Women – and almost two hundred Meighen Forum events.

“For thousands of people, coming to the Stratford Festival is an annual pilgrimage,” said Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino in a news release. “By the time they arrive to see the shows of our 2022 season, it will have been three years since most of them have set foot in one of our theatres.”

Cimolino says they want their attendees’ return to be everything they hoped for. “We want them to feel safe, of course, but we also want to fill the void left by the absence of live theatre and communal activities,” he added.

Executive Director Anita Gaffney said the 2022 season will be a stretch financially after the effects the pandemic had on the industry.

“It is crucial for us to come back in a way that will have a great impact on arts employment and the tourism industry in our area,” Gaffney said. “With a deficit from last year, government support from all channels, including the federal government’s major festivals and events program will be essential to help us build on the work of the past year, broadening the opportunities for artists and audiences, as well as for the industry and the community.”

The Kander and Ebb musical Chicago will kick off the entire season, starting previews in early April. Organizers say it will be the first major new production of the iconic musical to be seen outside of New York in 30 years. The show was originally scheduled for the 2020 season but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The festival will run from early April 2022 to the end of October 2022.

For more information on the festival’s lineup and to buy tickets, click here.

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