The Stratford Festival of Canada News

The Muny has revealed the teams of directors, choreographers and music directors for its 2024 season. Learn about the shows this season and see how to purchase tickets!

A one-night-only reading of the musical All The Rage will be held as part of Spark Theatre Festival this March. The reading will star Broadway's Chilina Kennedy and Constantine Maroulis.

Born in 1945, actor CRAIG DUDLEY (AEA, SAG AFTRA, Canadian Equity) passed away on August 1, 2023. For the last few years, he was the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR of THE ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY of NEW YORK, wherein he won great acclaim for his performance as Oscar Wilde in John Gay's DIVERSIONS & DELIGHTS.

54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club, will present “Northern Exposure” on Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 7:00PM.

WAM Theatre's 2023 Season will open with the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-nominated play What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck (Grand Concourse, There Are No More Big Secrets, The Consultant), directed by WAM’s Co-Founder and Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, and co-produced by Berkshire Theatre Group.

While governmental support over the past few years has helped companies stay afloat, with rising costs and additional pandemic related support no longer an option, the realities are starting to settle in.

BroadwayHD, the premier streaming service for live theater, has picked up a library of five titles from Barry Avrich's Melbar Entertainment Group.  

The last year and a half has had a lot of members of the theatre industry questioning what was meant by business as usual - and many of those questions have a lot of merit. While theatres have spent much of the pandemic trying to survive, they’ve also been spending time trying to not only answer those questions, but find the best path forward.

Lessons for Diving by Silas Parry, directed by Matt Steinberg will be workshopped 19-24 July, with showcase on 24 July and performed by Sebastián Capitán Viveros, Patrick McNamee and Dan Wolff. This will be followed by Kristian Phillips' Drift, directed by Matt Steinberg and performed by Tom Rhys Harries, workshopped 26 – 28 July with the showcase on 28 July; and finally, Boomerang by Jack Stanley will be developed 29 – 31 July, with the showcase on 31 July, directed by Jude Christian. Showcases will be at the Jerwood Space.

Inspired by a true friendship, Deborah Brevoort’s My Lord, What a Night produced by Orlando Shakes in partnership with UCF will be available to stream February 3 - 14, 2021. This Video on Demand production of My Lord, What a Night is part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere.

Award winning actress and poet Nehassaiu deGannes is celebrating a return to her writing roots with the recent selection of her poem, To Find, To Be as a shortlisted finalist for the prestigious Montreal International Poetry Prize Competition.

Nicolas Dromard and Desiree Davar are back by popular demand to bring 'Superheroes in Love: Living Room Concert #4' to your streaming devices! Known for their roles in Jersey Boys, Mary Poppins, Wicked and West Side Story, this married dynamic duo return to their living room to share their talents and love to bring you another evening filled with song and dance.

TDF has invited educators to develop their directing skills this summer by enrolling in TDF Teacher Seminars and Professional Development Program's first-ever virtual workshop titled Directing Plays and Musicals in the School and Classroom.

Inspired by a true friendship, Deborah Brevoort's My Lord, What a Night produced by Orlando Shakes in partnership with UCF - Central Florida's largest professional theater company, runs from March 18 - April 26, 2020. This production of My Lord, What a Night is part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Tickets (starting at $30) are available now by phone (407) 447-1700 ext. 1, online at orlandoshakes.org, or in person at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center (812 East Rollins Street).

Inspired by a true friendship, Deborah Brevoort's My Lord, What a Night produced by Orlando Shakes in partnership with UCF - Central Florida's largest professional theater company, runs from March 18 - April 26, 2020.

Showgirls Kyla Musselman and Jennifer Thiessen, hailing from Toronto and New York City respectively, are back with more banter for an epic third season of Tits and Teeth Podcast! 'It's a great privilege to be in our third season, and to have our reach grow,' says Thiessen. The podcast has not only been popular across Canada, but also internationally. 'We are so proud of all our guests, and it is wonderful to bring their voices to a growing audience each year'.

In what has become an annual ritual, a total of 40 established and emerging composers, lyricists, and librettists will converge on the Goodspeed campus from mid-January through mid-February 2020 to participate in the Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. The writing teams, representing 15 new musicals, will populate the campus, creating a truly exciting environment for discovery and inspiration.

The newly formed Rose Valley Theatre Group, with producer Magura Bulgarian Cultural Center, is proud to announce the English-language world premiere of Zachary Karabashliev's award-winning Sunday Evening, directed by Artistic Director Zlatomir Moldovanski, in the Upstairs Studio at the Greenhouse Theater Center, January 16 - February 9, 2020. Opening night is Thursday, Jan. 16, at 7:30 p.m. The performance schedule is Thursdays - Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 - $35 and are available at GreenHouseTheater.org. For more information on the production go to MagurABCs.com/Sunday-Evening.

In November, The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol (806 San Marino Drive, The Villages, FL) will open its second production of its fourth season, a comedy written by Bernardo Cubria- Neighbors: A Fair Trade Agreement.

On Friday, August 30, the theatre community lost dramaturg Robert Blacker, who passed away suddenly at the age of 71. Longtime collaborator Des McAnuff, who worked with Blacker at La Jolla Playhouse and Stratford Shakespeare Festival, writes a tribute to his friend below: