Will Eno’s GNIT Makes Shaw Festival Debut This Month
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 19, 2025
The Shaw Festival welcomes the Canadian premiere of Will Eno’s Gnit**, a surreal, darkly funny, and unexpectedly moving contemporary reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. Directed by Shaw Artistic Director Tim Carroll, the production begins previews June 19 and opens for review July 4, running through October 4 at the Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre.
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.
Review: TONS OF MONEY at the Shaw Festival
by Michael Rabice - Jun 11, 2025
Living a lifestyle beyond one's means and being prone to excesses in all aspects of life often may catch up with you (especially if there is no money in the family vault) . That is unless a long lost relative leaves you everything in their will, and they day is saved. Therein gives just a glimpse into the super silly premise of the delightful farce, TONS OF MONEY, now playing at the Royal George Theatre of the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake.
TONS OF MONEY Comes to the Shaw Festival
by Stephi Wild - Apr 11, 2025
Tons of Money, the classic English farce by writers Will Evans and Valentine, brings a nonstop parade of ridiculous antics, mistaken identities and sheer silliness to the Shaw Festival.
Original Short Film THE UNDERSTUDY Coming to Streaming
by Josh Sharpe - Apr 2, 2025
The short film will return to Stratfest@Home, the Stratford Festival’s subscription streaming service, on April 3. It won Best International Short Film at the Montana International Film Festival (MINT) and Best Narrative Short Film at the Tacoma Film Festival.
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.
Talk Is Free Theatre Takes Three Productions to New Zealand
by Stephi Wild - Jan 2, 2024
Talk Is Free Theatre (TIFT) has partnered with New Zealand-based producer A Mulled Whine to bring a collection of their celebrated productions to Auckland this month for the Talk Is Free Theatre Festival, continuing their tradition of touring tailor-adapted immersive projects around the world.
Review: ON THE RAZZLE at Shaw Festival
by Michael Rabice - Aug 3, 2023
A good story often bears repeating. Such is the case in Tom Stoppard's ON THE RAZZLE, currently playing on the Royal George stage of the Shaw Festival. It's storied provenance has beginnings dated back to the 1842 play 'Einen Jux will er sich machen' by Johann Nestroy.
TIFT Announces 2023/24 Season
by Stephi Wild - Apr 20, 2023
Talk Is Free Theatre Producer & CEO Arkady Spivak and Artistic Director Michael Torontow announced their 2023/24 season, which leaps into new territory (sometimes literally) and challenges the boundaries that exist to be pushed, dismantled, or destroyed–a season full of new works and past favourites on stages (and in forests) not just at home in Barrie, Ontario, but across the far reaches of the planet to South America, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.
ON THE RAZZLE Comes to Royal George Theatre This Weekend
by Stephi Wild - Apr 14, 2023
On the Razzle, Tom Stoppard's vivacious breakneck joyride of mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, double entendres and narrow escapes, begins previews on April 16 at the Shaw Festival's Royal George Theatre.
NORTHERN TRACKS: A CANADIAN MIXTAPE Premières On Stratfest@Home
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 4, 2023
Northern Tracks: A Canadian Mixtape is the newest original release on the Stratford Festival's worldwide streaming platform, Stratfest@Home. Each of the nine episodes shines a spotlight on a Canadian musical great with selections performed by the country's top talents. A thrilling highlight: three Oscar Peterson selections that have never before been recorded with lyrics.
Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Shaw Festival
by Michael Rabice - Jul 14, 2022
A breezy comedy of manners, as only Oscar Wilde could pen, is a welcome way to return to Niagara-on-the Lake's SHAW FESTIVAL. For it's 60th anniversary audiences are in for a familiar treat as THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST returns to the stage in all it's witty charm. Hints of covid still pervade the air as a notice of two understudies stepping into two leading roles greeted us. But fear not, their polished presence assured there was never any cause for concern.