There are two men who played a big part in a Stratford Festival season that saw a $1.9-million surplus and the festival’s highest ticket revenue in a decade. The other, artistic director Antoni Cimolino, has been asked to stay on as head of the fest for an extra two years, until 2024. Antoni Cimolino has been asked to stay on as artistic director of the Stratford Festival until 2024. This season, Cimolino will direct Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Birds of a Kind by Wajdi Mouawad. “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.

Source: thestar March 30, 2019 19:18 UTC