Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and premiere of The Diviners hit the stage in Stratford Festival's 2024 season
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The Stratford Festival has released the 12 productions its set to stage in 2024 and it includes classics as well as three world premieres.
The festival will highlight three Shakespeare plays:
Other plays include:
The festival will also present two musicals:
Artistic director Antoni Cimolino said as he put together the 2024 season, he looked for works "that speak to departing from the past, stories about people who strike out in new directions."
"I feel we are at a moment in society when we are genuinely ready to leave behind much of what was," Cimolino said in a release Tuesday.
"In order to make that journey successfully, we need inspiration, joy and delight along the way. I hope these plays will lift our hearts, make us laugh, and maybe show us that some risks are worth taking."
Tickets for the 2024 season will go on sale to the general public in December. The 2024 season will run from mid-April to October.
