Brian Dennehy to Star at 2008 Stratford Shakespeare Festival

Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy will star at the 2008 Stratford Shakespeare Festival in a double bill of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape and Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie along with a new production of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well.

The Festival season will also include Joanna McClelland Glass’ Palmer Park, Morris Panych’s adaptation of Moby Dick, a new play by Simon Callow, inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets, Peter Hinton’s Her Infinite Variety, which celebrates the women in Shakespeare’s plays, Tony winners Christopher Plummer and Anika Noni Rose in the title roles of Caesar and Cleopatra, to be directed by Des McAnuff, and the musicals Cabaret, directed by Amanda Dehnert, and The Music Man, to be directed by Susan H. Schulman.

Other 2008 productions will include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Trojan Women, Fuente Ovejuna, and Emilia Galotti.

For more information, visit www.stratfordfestival.ca.