Stratford Festival

Stratford Festival’s 2026 season features a playbill of classic and new texts that celebrate harmony and examine the forces that enhance it or work against it. With 11 productions to choose from, there is something for everyone – spectacular musicals, thrilling dramas, heartwarming family shows, hilarious comedies, touching romances and exciting world premières.

FESTIVAL THEATRE

• The Tempest: On an enchanted island, a deposed duke uses his magical powers to conjure a storm at sea, bringing him face to face with the brother who betrayed him. As old quarrels are resolved, love blossoms for a new generation.Something Rotten!: The Bottom brothers, two struggling playwrights in Renaissance London, need a hit. That’s easier said than done when your chief competition is local rockstar William Shakespeare. The Bottom brothers’ plan? Write the world’s first musical!Guys and Dolls: In the bustling streets of New York, a smooth-talking gambler wagers he can charm a pious missionary, while another high roller desperately fights to keep his game alive and his fiancée from walking away. In a city ruled by chance, love takes unexpected turns and both men soon discover they are risking far more than money.

  Waiting for Godot: On a deserted stretch of land, two old friends wait endlessly for the mysterious Godot, passing the time with conversations that veer from the mundane to the profound. The more they argue, question and complain, the more their predicament begins to resemble that of humanity looking for meaning in an absurd universe.

AVON THEATRE

• The Importance of Being Earnest: Two dashing men-about-town create false identities to escape social obligations and win the hearts of the women they love, only to find themselves entangled in a web of deceit and absurd expectations. Set in Victorian England, this sharp-witted and hilarious comedy skewers manners, marriage and the pursuit of sincerity in a world obsessed with appearances.
• Death of a Salesman: An aging commercial traveller chases a fading dream of success, blind to the illusions that have shaped his life and shattered his family. As memories blur with reality, his desperate pursuit of worth reveals the quiet tragedy of a man out of step with the world around him.
• The Hobbit: Bilbo Baggins is reluctantly swept from his cozy Hobbit Hole into a perilous quest across Middle-earth to help a band of Dwarves reclaim their home under the Lonely Mountain, from a treacherous Dragon. Faced with Trolls, Goblins and a mysterious magic ring, he discovers that true courage often lies in the most unlikely of hearts.
• Saturday, Sunday, Monday: In this comic masterpiece, a lively Neapolitan household is thrown into turmoil when a simmering marital rift between the family matriarch and her withdrawn husband comes to a boil. As emotions flare and generations clash, laughter and love guide the family toward reconciliation and a deeper understanding of one another.

TOM PATTERSON THEATRE

• Othello: A beautiful marriage and a brilliant military career are destroyed by the devious manipulations of a vindictive comrade. Heroism and dishonour walk hand in hand in this gripping tale of jealousy, regret and revenge.
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Strange things happen in the woods by night, with neither spirit nor mortal safe from the wiles of the trickster Puck. For mismatched lovers, romance runs delightfully amok, but true love triumphs at dawn.
• The Tao of the World: In this world première, Singapore’s wealthy elite hatch schemes to bed other people’s partners and swindle one another out of dynastic fortunes. This inventive mash-up of Restoration comedy and the modern Asian rom-com is filled with hilarity, romance and billionaires misbehaving.

STUDIO THEATRE

• The King James Bible Play: A gripping and humorous portrait of the men behind the monumental translation of the King James Bible and a group of modern women creating a play about that process, this world première is a fascinating interrogation of translation in all its forms.

Tickets:

Varies

Adult (Regular) = Play: $109 to $253 / Musical: $114 to $253
Senior = Play: $61 to $101 / Musical: $74 to $167
Student = Play: $19 to $146 / Musical: $26 to $146

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April 21 to November 1, 2026 – Schedule

• The Hobbit – April 21 to October 23
• Guys and Dolls – April 22 to November 1
• The Tempest – April 28 to October 24
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream – May 1 to September 26
• Death of a Salesman – May 5 to October 24
• Something Rotten! – May 11 to October 31
• Waiting for Godot – May 14 to July 31
• The Importance of Being Earnest – May 19 to October 23
• Othello – May 22 to September 27
• The Tao of the World – August 2 to September 26
• Saturday, Sunday, Monday – August 4 to October 24
• The King James Bible Play – August 6 to September 26