This is not the season for Shakespearean purists at Bard on the Beach. Every play has been re-written, ranging from mildly to wildly successful. The last offering for the 2024 season, » Read More
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July 20, 2024
Bard on the Beach’s third summer offering is a hilarious staging of The Comedy of Errors. As if one set of shipwrecked twins (in Twelfth Night) wasn’t enough, get ready » Read More
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July 6, 2024
The headline gives it all away: Bard on the Beach’s 35th season production of Hamlet – directed, adapted, and updated by the inventive mind of Stephen Drover – lets audiences » Read More
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June 29, 2024
Bard on the Beach opened its 35th season with Shakespeare’s gender mix-up tale Twelfth Night or What You Will. This romp is a comedic staple, with only A Midsummer Night’s » Read More
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August 29, 2019
Coriolanus, Bard on the Beach’s final play of its 30th anniversary season, opened to a standing ovation over the weekend. Coriolanus is a difficult, controversial and lesser-known Shakespearean work, yet » Read More
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July 19, 2019
It’s hard to believe that 30 years have passed since Bard on the Beach humbly started with only one tent at Vanier Park. They’ve not only made Shakespeare accessible to » Read More
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July 17, 2019
The annual Bard on the Beach festival makes the works of William Shakespeare accessible to all audiences, young or old, scholars or amateurs. Over its 30-year evolution, Bard has taken » Read More
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July 15, 2019
William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew is easily one of the funniest in the bard’s canon but also one of the most controversial by today’s standards. Misogyny aside, the tactics » Read More
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July 16, 2018
Move over Shakespeare, Aristophanes is in the house! The father of English drama is upstaged by the father of comedy in Bard on the Beach’s adaptation of the Greek play » Read More
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July 13, 2018
Ever since Meg Roe made her directorial debut at Bard on the Beach’s 2014 production of The Tempest, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the return of her sui generis stamp on » Read More
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June 25, 2018
Two of jolly ol’ England’s best exports have finally been united in a raucous affair! William Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy As You Like It intersects Beatlemania in Bard on the Beach’s » Read More
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June 20, 2018
Bard on the Beach returns for its 29th year with Shakespeare’s emotionally charged The Tragedy of Macbeth as its powerful season opener. The shocking plot of the darkly intense “Scottish » Read More
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July 21, 2017
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, directed by Scott Bellis, rounds off Bard on the Beach’s 2017 summer offerings (Shylock to come in September). The only other time Bard tackled this » Read More
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July 10, 2017
The best arts in any form – whether visual, aural, literary or performing – intrigue us because they can be interpreted in several ways and evoke many emotions. Shakespeare’s The » Read More