Opening Week Itinerary

Sunday, May 27

1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Garden Party in the Festival Lobby and Gardens

Monday, May 28

4:30 p.m. Dignitaries and guests begin to arrive for reception and dinner.
6:30 p.m. Stratford Police Pipes and Drums band and the Stratford Cadet Colour Guard arrive at the front of the Festival.
6:30-7:30 p.m. Red carpet arrivals at the Festival Theatre.
7:30 p.m. Opening of The Tempest.
Performance runs 2:42

Tuesday, May 29

8 p.m. Opening of The Music Man at the Festival Theatre
Performance runs 2:35

Wednesday, May 30

8 p.m. Opening of Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the Studio Theatre
Performance runs 3:23 (two intermissions)

Thursday, May 31

8 p.m. Opening of An Ideal Husband at the Avon Theatre
Performance runs 3:01

Friday, June 1

8 p.m. Opening of The Comedy of Errors at the Studio Theatre
Performance runs 1:34 (no intermission)

Saturday, June 2

2 p.m. Opening of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Festival Theatre
Performance runs 2:40

8 p.m. Opening of The Rocky Horror Show at the Avon Theatre
Performance runs 1:52

The season features five additional productions: Brontë: The World Without, opening June 21; Coriolanus, opening June 22; Julius Caesar, opening August 16; and Paradise Lost and Napoli Milionaria!, both opening August 17.