July 01--The Chicago director Gary Griffin will return to work at the Startford Festival in 2016, the Canadian festival announced Wednesday, along with the rest of its major 2016 offerings. He will direct Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music."
Other highlights of the Stratford Festival season include "Breath of Kings," a two-part exploration of Shakespeare's four-play Henriad history cycle, conceived and adapted by Graham Abbey, and the pre-Broadway premiere of "Shakespeare in Love," the Lee Hall adaptation of the movie imagining a young and amorous William Shakespeare. Also, Stratford Festival Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino will direct "Macbeth," while Jillian Keiley will helm "As You Like It."
Donna Feore will direct and choreograph "A Chorus Line" (for the thrust stage) while Carey Perloff will direct the world premi貥 of a new translation of Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman." Other major shows include the comedy "The Hypochondriac," an adaptation of Moli貥's "La Malade Imaginaire" by Richard Bean, directed by Cimolino; C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," dramatized by Adrian Mitchell and directed by Tim Carroll; and Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," directed by Martha Henry.
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