Ontario’s Stratford Festival (one of Canada’s largest arts organizations) has signed executive director Antoni Cimolino to a contract extension that runs until 1015. “Under Cimolino’s stewardship, ticket sales since 1998 have increased from 523,000 to more than 600,000 and the festival has been in a budget surplus in each year of his administration. The operating budget has increased from $34-million to $51-million annually.”