Stratford Festival is streaming Shakespeare plays for free
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nypost.comBored at home? Starting tonight, you can be Bard at home instead. The Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada, will begin streaming a selection of its stage productions of William Shakespeare’s plays online for free, starting with “King Lear.” The shows are gorgeously filmed, comparable to “The Met: Live in HD” or “National Theatre Live.” And as 67-year-old Stratford is the most robust classical theater festival in North America, the acting is first-rate.
These are a few of my favorites in the lineup. Colm Feore’s turn as “King Lear” is a particularly frail, heartbreaking take on the grumpy monarch; director Robert Lepage’s “Coriolanus” reconceives what can be a convoluted political chat-fest as a sexed-up episode of “House of Cards”; and Tom
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