{"id":165380,"date":"2018-05-29T01:53:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T05:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=165380"},"modified":"2018-05-29T01:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T05:53:42","slug":"opening-night-of-stratford-festivals-2018-season-cancelled-after-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/29\/opening-night-of-stratford-festivals-2018-season-cancelled-after-bomb-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening night of Stratford Festival&#8217;s 2018 season cancelled after bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_165381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165381\" style=\"width: 913px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/10421370_10152345007602168_2412224170287273609_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165381\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/10421370_10152345007602168_2412224170287273609_n.png\" alt=\"Police in Stratford, Ont., say on Twitter that at about 6:45 p.m. Monday, they received a call that explosives had been placed at the theatre festival. (Photo: Stratford Festival\/Facebook)\" width=\"913\" height=\"913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/10421370_10152345007602168_2412224170287273609_n.png 913w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/10421370_10152345007602168_2412224170287273609_n-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/10421370_10152345007602168_2412224170287273609_n-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/10421370_10152345007602168_2412224170287273609_n-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 913px) 100vw, 913px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-165381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police in Stratford, Ont., say on Twitter that at about 6:45 p.m. Monday, they received a call that explosives had been placed at the theatre festival. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/StratfordFestival\/photos\/a.398765032167.187501.8516672167\/10152345007602168\/?type=1&amp;theater\">Photo: Stratford Festival\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>STRATFORD, Ont. \u2014 The Stratford Festival says the official opening night of its 2018 season has been cancelled and all its buildings evacuated after a bomb threat.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Stratford, Ont., say on Twitter that at about 6:45 p.m. Monday, they received a call that explosives had been placed at the theatre festival.<\/p>\n<p>They say festival officials were immediately advised and the Avon and Festival theatres were evacuated as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Police say officers are on scene conducting searches for suspicious items or packages.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Swerdfager, publicity director at Stratford Festival, says in a statement that patrons, staff and artists for a performance of \u201cThe Tempest\u201d left the theatre quickly.<\/p>\n<p>She says all ticket purchases will be honoured and ticket holders for Monday&#8217;s performance will be contacted by festival staff.<\/p>\n<p>Swerdfager says all of Tuesday&#8217;s performances, including the opening of \u201cThe Music Man,\u201d will go on as scheduled with increased security.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRATFORD, Ont. \u2014 The Stratford Festival says the official opening night of its 2018 season has been cancelled and all &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":165381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16042,17444],"class_list":["post-165380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bomb-threat","tag-stratford-festival","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}