Arts & Entertainment

Festival! Stratford Geared Up for Second Weekend

The second weekend of activities at the 6th annual arts festival begins tomorrow.

Promoters of Festival! Stratford 2011 are calling the first weekend installment of this year's festival a "resounding success."

Even with Sunday's rainout of events, thousands gathered on the grounds of the Festival Theatre, and many took advantage of the theatre's open house, which will continue to display artwork from the Stratford Arts Guild in the coming days.

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Weekend number two begins Thursday with Broadway Meets the Bard, a Broadway-infused magic show that is set to kick off at 8 p.m.

Here's a full list of the weekend's events (Click on the event to read more about it):

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Thursday, Aug. 18

6:30 p.m. - 11 p.m. Stratford Arts Guild exhibit inside theatre

8:30 a.m. AM Yoga with Carla Loxsom

6:30 p.m - 7:45 p.m. Festival Theatre open house

6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Stratford Arts Guild exhibit inside theatre

7 p.m. Jazz for the Spirit

8 p.m. The Players at Putney Gardens will perform “Shakespeare in the Garden”; Temple Players will perform “Learning Experience at Elderhostel” and “Soldiers of the Lord”; Eastbound Theatre Company will perform "Maybe in Another Universe," which reveals unexpected, cataclysmic and hilarious consequences of a one-night stand; and the Bridgeport Theatre Company will perform favorite highlights from past seasons and previews of the next.

Saturday, Aug. 20

8:30 a.m. AM Yoga with Beverly Corvino

10:30 a.m. ZUMBA class with Suzanne Pallazi

12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Festival Theatre open house and Stratford Arts Guild exhibit inside theatre.

2 p.m. SquareWrights will perform "Quickies in the Park"

6:30-7:45 p.m. Festival Theatre open house and Stratford Arts Guild exhibit inside theatre (the latter will run to 11 p.m.).

8 p.m. Shakesperience Productions, Inc. will perform "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Sunday, Aug. 21

8:30 a.m. AM Yoga with Beverly Corvino

12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Festival Theatre open house and Stratford Arts Guild exhibit inside theatre.

2 p.m. Students who took classes in the acting camp offered as part of the festival will present an adaptation of "Henry V."

2:30 p.m. Uno Duo -- music with Jeff Butler and Sean Morrissey

4 p.m Shakesperience Productions, Inc. will perform “The Jungle Book”

Are you planning on going to the festival this weekend? What events are you excited for? Tell us in the comments section below.


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