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STRATFORD FESTIVAL ON FILM – The Tempest

The Stratford Festival’s latest film, The Tempest, directed for the stage byArtistic Director Antoni Cimolino and for the screen by Barry Avrich, premières at theaters across the United States.The stage production was a truly historic event, featuring theatre legend Martha Henry as Prospero, more than five decades after she made her Stratford debut as Prospero’s daughter, Miranda, in the 1962 production of the play.

STRATFORD FESTIVAL ON FILM – The Tempest

The Stratford Festival’s latest film, The Tempest, directed for the stage byArtistic Director Antoni Cimolino and for the screen by Barry Avrich, premières at theaters across the United States. The stage production was a truly historic event, featuring theatre legend Martha Henry as Prospero, more than five decades after she made her Stratford debut as Prospero’s daughter, Miranda, in the 1962 production of the play.

Riverside Theatre’s ‘How to Succeed’ still funny 50 years later

Who’d have thought a nitwit, a bimbo, a braggart and a big shot could set up a classist conundrum of morality. Not quite? Then how about a Broadway play, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” a 1961 musical based on a satirical handbook written a decade earlier. The loftier premise of the play is that the corporate workplace is a bastion of B.S., where conniving worms can wriggle their way to the top without regard to ethics or even a solid C.V. The reality is that watching a lowly laborer unzip his blue-collar coveralls to prove he can be a suit with the best of them can be fun to watch, especially with a bevy of secretaries tossed ...