Avon Theatre

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 
At the centre of C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, to be directed by Tim Carroll, are four children who travel through a wardrobe to the enchanting realm of Narnia: Sara Farb as Lucy, Ruby Joy as Susan, André Morin as Edmund and Gareth Potter as Peter, all returning from outstanding seasons this year. Tom McCamus returns to play Aslan and the Professor, and Festival favourite Yanna McIntosh will play the White Witch. 

A Little Night Music
Hot off his first Stratford musical role as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, Ben Carlson returns as Fredrik Egerman in the Stephen Sondheim classic, directed by Gary Griffin. Cynthia Dale, last seen as Myra Arundel in 2014's Hay Fever, returns to play Countess Charlotte Malcolm. Yanna McIntosh, who shone as the femmes fatales Cleopatra and Helen of Troy, will play Desirée Armfeldt. Juan Chioran will play Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm; Sara Farb will play Petra, the Egerman maid; and Alexis Gordon will play Fredrik's young new wife, Anne Egerman.

Shakespeare in Love
Rising star Luke Humphrey will play the young Will Shakespeare in this North American première, directed by Declan Donnellan. He was last seen here in 2013, starring opposite Martha Henry in Taking Shakespeare, and as a dashing D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers. As Will's muse, Viola de Lesseps, Shannon Taylor follows her 2015 roles as Margot Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank and the Priest in Oedipus Rex. The production will also feature Tom McCamus as Fennyman, Stephen Ouimette as Henslowe, Karen Robinson as the Nurse and Saamer Usmani as Kit Marlowe. 

Tom Patterson Theatre

All My Sons
After playing a married couple in two productions this season, The Diary of Anne Frank and She Stoops to Conquer, Joseph Ziegler and Lucy Peacock will reunite as Joe and Kate Keller in Arthur Miller's powerful drama All My Sons. The production, directed by Martha Henry, will also feature Sarah Afful as Ann Deever. 

Breath of Kings 
This specially commissioned two-part exploration of Shakespeare's four-play Henriad cycle will feature four outstanding actors in the lead roles. Graham Abbey, who developed the project through the Festival's Laboratory, will hit the stage as Bolingbroke/Henry IV. Araya Mengesha will play Henry V, returning after an impressive Festival debut as Tommy in 2009's Rice Boy. Tom Rooney, featured this past season in Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew and Love's Labour's Lost, will play Richard II and the Chorus. Geraint Wyn Davies, seen this year as Claudius in Hamlet and Johann Wilhelm Möbius in The Physicists, will play Fluellen and Falstaff. 

The project, to be directed by Mitchell Cushman and Weyni Mengesha, will also feature Kate Hennig as Mistress Quickly and Gower and Nigel Shawn Williams as Northumberland and Exeter. 

John Gabriel Borkman
Three true Festival favourites will take the Tom Patterson stage together next season. Seana McKenna and Lucy Peacock portray the sparring twin sisters Ella Rentheim and Gunhild Borkman, with Scott Wentworth in the title role of Henrik Ibsen's psychological drama. The play, directed by Carey Perloff, will also feature Antoine Yared as Erhart Borkman. 

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It was lauded as "the show that saved Broadway."

Opening on Broadway in 1975, A Chorus Line was originated by legendary American musical theatre director Michael Bennett. Revolutionary in its use of a bare stage and episodic storyline, it became an overnight sensation with critics and audiences alike, scooping up almost every award imaginable - including an incredible nine Tonys and the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. With a run that lasted 15 years, it remains the sixth-longest-running show in Broadway history.

This glorious musical has long been on the Stratford Festival's "wish list"; we're thrilled to finally be presenting it in 2016. We just know it will capture your hearts with its hilarious - and often heart-wrenching - story of aspiring dancers auditioning for a spot on Broadway. Even for those who've never known a yearning to perform, its appeal is universal: it speaks to anyone who has ever dared to dream.

With music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban, its unforgettable numbers include "What I Did for Love," "At the Ballet," "Dance: Ten; Looks: Three" and the show-stopping finale, "One (Singular Sensation)."

New staging for a beloved classic
This will be the first time a professional company has presented A Chorus Line on a thrust stage. Leading Canadian director-choreographer Donna Feore will tailor her staging and choreography to the unique demands of the Festival Theatre. 

"The shows that have always drawn me most," she says, "are those whose seamless structures have stood to benefit from the intimate nature of this space. It is a storyteller's dream space. No member of the audience is more than 60 feet away, and the company is literally 'thrust' among them. The relationship is close, communal and dynamic."

Home is where the heart is
Few director-choreographers know the Festival stage as well as Ms Feore. She first worked on it as a performer and then a choreographer, before becoming director-choreographer of 2006's memorable Oliver! In the seasons since, she has made something of a trademark of reimagining some of the world's most famous musicals for the thrust stage, with her stunning productions of Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Crazy for You and this past season's glorious The Sound of Music.

By revamping A Chorus Line for the Festival stage, Ms Feore will be bringing audiences an up-close-and-personal experience with some of the very best dancers in the country - a unique and not-to-be-missed theatrical event.

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Production Co-Sponsor: Union Gas Limited

Production support for A Chorus Line is generously provided by Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin, Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen, and Catherine & David Wilkes.

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