Editing Repertory theatre (section)

==Canada==
Organizations in [[Canada]] include North America's largest classical repertory theatre company, the [[Stratford Festival]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/AboutUs |title=About Us |date=2020-01-14 |website=Stratford Festival Official Website |location=Stratford, Ontario, Canada |access-date=2020-01-14 }}</ref> founded in 1953 primarily to present productions of [[William Shakespeare]]'s plays. Canada also hosts North America's second largest repertory theatre company, the [[Shaw Festival]], founded in 1962, which presents plays written by or set during the lifetime of [[Bernard Shaw]], or that follow Shaw's ideal of socially provocative theatre. However, Canadian repertory companies follow a model that differs somewhat from the years-long rotation repertory system found in Europe.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} In Canada, productions often stay on the repertory for one season, running in repertory with other productions in the same year.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} The actors are not employed full time long term, but instead work on contracts usually maximum 8 months long.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

The Vagabond Repertory Theatre Company was formed in March 2009 by artistic directors Nathaniel Fried and Ryan LaPlante, and currently resides and performs in [[Kingston, Ontario]]. It shuttered in 2019. The old English-style repertory theatres such as [[Ottawa]]'s CRT (Canadian Repertory Theatre) and [[Toronto]]'s Crest Theatre no longer exist—although they did have a version of [[Summer stock theatre|summer theatre]] in smaller holiday districts, such as the "Straw Hat" players of Gravenhurst and Port Carling at [[Ontario]]'s vacation [[Muskoka Lakes, Ontario|Muskoka Lakes]] area.

State-subsidized theatres on continental Europe have been suggested as the origin of the repertoire tradition.<ref name=":02">{{Cite thesis|title=The repertory theatre movement, 1907-1917|url=http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55938/|publisher=University of Warwick|date=1983|degree=Ph.D.|first=Alasdair F.|last=Cameron}}</ref>
One of the earliest examples of this system is the Moscow Art Theatre circa 1898.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Klaic|first=Dragan|title=Production Models: Reps, Groups and Production Houses|chapter=Production Models|date=2012|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv9hj78n.7|work=Resetting the Stage|pages=35–54|series=Public Theatre Between the Market and Democracy|publisher=Intellect|doi=10.2307/j.ctv9hj78n.7|jstor=j.ctv9hj78n.7|isbn=978-1-84150-547-3|s2cid=243133926 |access-date=2021-10-28}}</ref>  An even earlier example are the theatres of Germany.<ref name=":02" /> See the Deutsches Theater, a privately owned German theatre founded in 1883 to produce plays in rep.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Deutsches Theater|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095714210|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Oxford Reference|language=en}}</ref> While variations appeared before, the modern repertory system did not become popular until the twentieth century.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Carter|first=Huntly|title=The Theatre of Max Reinhardt|publisher=B. Blom|year=1964|location=New York|pages=173–180|language=English}}</ref>