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            Stratford Festival
      
    
      APGRD id
                      158
                First year of festival
                      1953
                Alternative name
                      Stratford Shakespearean Festival; Stratford Festival of Canada; Stratford Shakespeare Festival
                Notes
                      The Stratford Festival (named the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1953–57; Stratford Festival, 1957–99; Stratford Festival of Canada, 2000–08; Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 2008–12) is an annual repertory theatre festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Until 1957,  when the Festival Theatre opened, performances took place in a concrete amphitheatre covered by canvas tent. 
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