ANDY NULMAN, president of Just for Laughs, the annual comedy festival based in Montreal, expressed similar sentiments.
Farr 16-18 August farrfestival.co.uk Erol Alkan and DJ Koze play this tiny-but-banging festival based in Hertfordshire.
Ireland is to celebrate its greatest living playwright with an annual festival based around the work of Brian Friel.
As the only major international festival based solely on new work, it's the business of the Manchester international festival to present bold experiments.
One of the founders of the Marlboro Music Festival, she has remained active as a choral conductor, especially with the Bach Festival, based in Brattleboro, Vt.
The Imitation Game was one of an unusual number of biopics screened at the festival based on the lives of those still fresh in memory.
"It's no mistake that his life is told in the theater," said Kamilah Forbes, the artistic director of the Hip-Hop Theater Festival, based in New York.
It has even spawned a year-long film festival based in London, the Bechdel Test Fest, which had its second event start 23 March.
The only bit I've done really is WA when I was commissioned by FotoFreo [a now defunct photo festival based in Fremantle] and we went to Broome.
We have a Wickerman festival based on a cult, grotesquely overplayed Hollywood B movie that is all of 42 years old.
The Williamstown Theater Festival is presenting a reading of "Amadeus" on July 12, and the Berkshire Theater Festival, based in Stockbridge, will present an adaptation of Mozart's "Magic Flute" for young audiences at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield June 26 to July 20.
