None of the above, though, can claim to be Stratford’s biggest hit of the 2024 season. That distinction goes to “Something Rotten!,” which not only is the hit of the summer but, in the words ...

Alec Guinness robing backstage for Richard III at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Aug. 1953, Stratford, Ont. (National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada / PA ...

Free Shakespeare plays and other entertainment was held at the annual Festival Stratford, on the grounds of the old Shakespeare Theater on Elm Street in Stratford, Conn. on Saturday August 14, 2010.

In repertory, with staggered closing dates through Oct. 27, at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario; stratfordfestival.ca. Jesse Green is the chief theater critic for The Times.