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Stratford Festival Announces 2026 Cast for GUYS AND DOLLS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 20, 2025

Discover the Stratford Festival's 2026 cast lineup, featuring GUYS AND DOLLS and more! Get details on how to attend this exciting season.

Review: BLACKBIRD at United Hope Church
by Ilana Lucas - Oct 13, 2025

What did our critic think of BLACKBIRD at United Hope Church? Of course, there’s a lot to gasp about in Talk Is Free Theatre’s production of BLACKBIRD, an incredibly intimate staging of Scottish playwright David Harrower’s 2005 drama about a tense confrontation, years after the fact, between a man who had a sexual relationship with a middle schooler and the now grown woman who tracks him down. So it’s a good thing to have such unfettered access to that respiration.

Louise Pitre and More to Star in KIMBERLY AKIMBO Candadian Premiere
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 15, 2025

The multi-Tony award winning musical Kimberly Akimbo will make its Canadian Premiere beginning this November. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickeets.

Talk Is Free Theatre Reveals 2025/26 Season Lineup
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 18, 2025

Talk Is Free Theatre Artistic Producer Arkady Spivak revealed the Barrie-based company's 23rd season with full line-ups in Barrie, in Toronto, and activities on all seven continents of the world–examining all the ways we treat legacy.

Cast Set For Third Season of COME FROM AWAY in Gander
by Stephi Wild - Feb 25, 2025

The cast, band, and creative team have been announced for the third season of Come From Away, directed by Jillian Keiley. Learn more about the show and find out how to get tickets here!

The Stratford Festival's 2023 Production of WEDDING BAND to Stream This Month
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 5, 2025

The Stratford Festival is sharing the 2023 production of Alice Childress's Wedding Band by making it available for streaming worldwide, directed by Sam White. Learn how to watch.

Review: WINTER SOLSTICE at Canadian Stage
by Ilana Lucas - Jan 30, 2025

What did our critic think of WINTER SOLSTICE at Canadian Stage?

Stratfest@Home To Begin Streaming CYMBELINE And More
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 11, 2024

Stratfest@Home will begin streaming the 2024 production of Shakespeare's Cymbeline and the 2023 production of Alice Childress's Wedding Band. New original content includes the music series Never Doubt I Love and the short film The Understudy.

Cast & Creative Team Set For WINTER SOLSTICE at Necessary Angel Theatre Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 17, 2024

Necessary Angel Theatre Company revealed the cast and creative team for the Canadian premiere of WINTER SOLSTICE by Roland Schimmelpfennig. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING and WOMEN OF THE FUR TRADE Join Stratfest@Home
by Stephi Wild - Mar 28, 2024

Two of 2023's most popular shows, Shakespeare's hilarious comedy Much Ado About Nothing and Frances Koncan's brilliant satire Women of the Fur Trade are now available for worldwide streaming on Stratfest@Home.

Original Cast Members Petrina Bromley and Astrid Van Wieren Join COME FROM AWAY in Gander
by Stephi Wild - Mar 14, 2024

The full cast, band and creative team have been revealed for director Jillian Keiley’s second season of Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s Come From Away, set to run June 28, 2024 - September 1, 2024, at the Joseph R Smallwood Arts & Culture Centre in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Talk Is Free Theatre Will Bring LA BETE to Toronto in March
by Stephi Wild - Jan 30, 2024

Fresh off a successful three-production tour to Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Talk Is Free Theatre (TIFT) is back in Canada and returning to a Toronto stage this March.

Review: WEDDING BAND At The Stratford Festival is A Beautifully Heartbreaking Story about Love and Dignity
by Lauren Gienow - Sep 15, 2023

This season, the Stratford Festival is certainly not shying away from material that addresses pandemics – fictional or historical. Director Sam White’s production of Alice Childress’ WEDDING BAND takes place during WWI when many were falling ill and dying from the influenza virus. It is the story of interracial couple Julia Augustine (Antonette Rudder) and Herman (Cyrus Lane) who are forced to contend with influenza when Herman falls ill, and who have already been contending with another pandemic – that of racism and white supremacy that is arguable even more rampant. This beautiful and heartbreaking play allows us to witness how Julia as a Black Woman, and Julia and Herman as a couple reckon with both external and internal forces that challenge their faith in their relationship and lead them to come to terms with what “dignity” means to them.

The Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum Announces August Highlights
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 2, 2023

The Meighen Forum at the Stratford Festival continues with opportunities to explore Alice Childress' Wedding Band, Global Theatre Week with Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, Readers and Writers Week with Margaret Atwood, an authentic Italian culinary experience with Maître Fromager (Cheese Master) Afrim Pristine and an array of workshops, discussions and performances.

Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Stratford Festival is Fresh and Fun
by Lauren Gienow - Jun 22, 2023

If you heard riotous laughter emanating from the Festival Theatre in Stratford on Friday evening, you may already know that MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING has officially opened at the Stratford Festival. The Shakespearean production directed by Chris Abraham, with additional text by Erin Shields, and starring Maev Beaty and Graham Abbey, boasts hilarious comedy from beginning to end. The cast fed off the energy of the audience on Friday night in such a way that this opening night felt particularly wild and special.

WEDDING BAND to Begin Performances Tomorrow at the Stratford Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 19, 2023

Alice Childress’s riveting play Wedding Band – a profound meditation on injustice and intolerance – starts performances at the Stratford Festival’s Tom Patterson Theatre on Tuesday in a production directed by Sam White.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Comes to the Stratford Festival in June
by Stephi Wild - May 30, 2023

With a series of hit classic comedies under his belt at Stratford, Chris Abraham is bringing one of Shakespeare’s finest, Much Ado About Nothing, to vivid life at the Festival Theatre. This beloved romantic comedy, featuring Graham Abbey and Maev Beaty, starts previews today.

Stratford Festival 2023 Special Holiday Presale Begins Next Week
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 8, 2022

The Stratford Festival is putting the finishing touches on casting and will soon open its box office for a special holiday pre-sale for tickets to the 13 exciting shows of the 2023 season. With savings up to 25%, this is a perfect opportunity to secure tickets for your favourite shows or buy gifts for the theatre-lovers on your list.

Stratford Festival Announces Casting For 2023 Season Featuring Andrea Macasaet, Robert Markus, Jonathan Goad & More
by Stephi Wild - Nov 1, 2022

Just as the 2022 season comes to a close, work for the 2023 season is getting underway at the Stratford Festival. Creative teams for next year's productions are coming into place and the casting department is busy confirming key roles for the season. Soon the workshops will be abuzz with artisans building the season's sets, props and costumes.

World Premiere Of GRAND GHOSTS Recounts Grand Theatre's Mysterious, Vaudeville Origins
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 12, 2022

From October 18th through November 5th, London's Grand Theatre takes a step back in time to uncover a century-old mystery in the world premiere of Grand Ghosts.