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Stratford Festival cancels rest of 2020 season "Theatre will be one of the last sectors to recover from this pandemic,” says artistic director Antoni Cimolino By Glenn Sumi expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Toronto The company will need to raise an additional $20-million from its donors as well. Visit Hub; WHERE TO STAY.
Newspapers Limited, One Yonge Street, 4th floor, Toronto, ON, M5E 1E6 Stratford Festival. – to deliver the news that the season, which was postponed last month, would not take place as planned.“It’s devastating – it’s just devastating,” Cimolino said in an interview.
Among his achievements cited since he took over as artistic director in the The new Tom Patterson isn’t scheduled to open until 2020 — the festival is more than $80 million into its $100-million fundraising “I fell in love with the Stratford Festival in my teens and to have the privilege of working here for so much of my career has been a great gift to me,” Cimolino said. “There’s just under 1,000 people that are employed at the festival in the course of a season, but there’s many thousands more that have jobs in related activities in Stratford.”Originally started in 1953 to revive the fortunes of the city of Stratford, Ont., the festival is estimated to drive $135-million in economic activity each year – with local hotels, restaurants and shops reliant on the hundreds of thousands of visitors who come to see theatre from April to November.Three hundred and thirty artists were employed or set to be employed by the Stratford Festival this season – a number that does not include the many other artists who take part in residencies and workshops.The exact number of other staff and workers affected is still unclear – 340 of the staff laid off last month have been offered a return to employment with support from the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, but only to the beginning of June.With so much uncertain about the future, Stratford’s administration and its board have not ruled out the possibility of a special fall or holiday season should public health conditions allow. This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. The first of many years of Stratford Shakespeare Festival production history started with a six-week season opening on 13 July 1953 with Fundraising to build a permanent theatre was slow but was helped significantly by donations from Governor General In 2012 the Festival had a deficit of $3.4 million, but by 2015 had a surplus of $3.1 million under the control of Cimolino and executive director Anita Gaffney. Antoni Cimolino, Director: King Lear.
to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about As an organization and a company of artists, we at the Stratford Festival are in a process of learning how we can be better treaty partners. In 2012 the Festival had a deficit of $3.4 million, but by 2015 had a surplus of $3.1 million under the control of Cimolino and executive director Anita Gaffney. Thousands of people and hundreds of business owners rely on the Festival for their livelihood. He is the artistic director of the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario. Only 5 per cent of Stratford’s annual budget comes from government funding.Stratford will need “in the realm of $20-million” from provincial and federal governments to help it deal with the cancellation of the 2020 season, Gaffney says. “We are looking to our patrons for help donate the value of the tickets for a tax receipt,” she said, regarding cancelled shows.Cimolino said he was committed to the artists and the productions originally planned for 2020, but could not say for certain whether all of them would be able to be staged in 2021, should the theatre company be up and running again by then.“As soon as we can be back, we will be on stage,” he said. STRATFEST@HOME STRATFEST@HOME; VISIT VISIT. The festival will revisit programming as soon as it is safe to gather in theatres. This publication features lifestyle stories around cannabis use and experiences, including emerging trends in wellness, travel, food and drink, pop culture, and cannabis-related brands. "Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. If you would like to write a letter to the editor, please forward it to Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. Antoni Cimolino is the current Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival. WHERE TO STAY. The venue was 98 per cent finished when construction on it stopped earlier this year.Stratford’s four theatres range in capacity from 260 to 1,800 seats, with lots of other areas – lobbies, washrooms, parking lots – full of patrons.