The Stratford Festival held its annual general meeting today, reflecting on a season of accomplishments in the midst of the global pandemic, and reporting a surplus of $553,058, thanks to strong support from donors and government.
Strengthening Indigenous creative and leadership capacity within the arts is one of the critical tenets of Harbourfront Centre's long-term strategic goals.
For the first time in its history, Theatre Calgary is giving all of Calgary and surrounding area a hand in choosing a production for the 2022-23 season.
Michel Tremblay and André Brassard, who altered the face of Canadian theatre in 1968 with the explosive premiere of Les Belles-Soeurs, at Montreal's Théâtre du Rideau Vert, have been named the joint recipients of this year's Herbert Whittaker Award.
Productions from the Stratford Festival’s 2021 season begin streaming this Thursday, September 2, with a ticketed viewing party of selections from Why We Tell the Story: A Celebration of Black Musical Theatre on Stratfest@Home, the Festival’s streaming platform.
The Tomson Highway play, THE REZ SISTERS was supposed to debut on a Stratford Festival stage in the 2020 season, but of course those plans were put on hold due to the pandemic.
The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway, directed by Jessica Carmichael is running July 23 to August 21 at the Stratford Festival, with the official opening Wednesday, July 28.
The Stratford Festival will mark the start of the 2021 season on July 13, the 68th anniversary of the very first performance held under a tent back in 1953, and the official opening of the year's first show, Why We Tell the Story: A Celebration of Black Musical Theatre.
The Ontario government has issued its guidance for attendance at outdoor performing arts events, paving the way for the opening of the Stratford Festival’s 2021 season.
The Nils Svensson Carell-penned breakup drama is well-acted, funny, and very deep for its short length.
The Stratford Festival is transforming, for this summer, into an outdoor festival offering a season of six plays and five cabarets reflecting on the theme of Metamorphosis, with performances held under beautiful canopies that will hark back to the Festival’s founding under a tent in 1953.
Between now and the end of April, GCTC takes to the digital world with a flurry of online activity including concerts, plays, and hybrid mash-ups of both.
Bound to Create Theatre and the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre have announced the 4 time Dora nominated hit production of Isitwendam (An Understanding) by Meegwun Fairbrother and co-created and directed by Jack Grinhaus will be LIVE STREAMING from the RMTC Warehouse as a part of their 20/21 Season's
Artists managers help artists to define their goals and to achieve them.
Internationally celebrated Canadian playwright Tomson Highway, also a gifted pianist, songwriter and novelist, is the next guest in a series of pandemic Zoom chats presented by the International Resource Centre for Performing Artists.
Thanks to overwhelming demand, the Stratford Festival's 2020 production of Richard III will be extended for another three weeks, giving theatregoers more opportunities to see Colm Feore bring this iconic role to life in the Festival's brand new Tom Patterson Theatre, which opens this spring after mo
After a Members advance sale so busy it prompted the early extension of two productions, tickets for the Stratford Festival's groundbreaking new season go on sale to the public today.
Native Earth Performing Arts will present its production of the 2018 Governor General-nominated play This Is How We Got Here, written and directed by Keith Barker, featuring Kristopher Bowman, Tamara Podemski, James Dallas Smith and Michaela Washburn on January 26-February 16, 2020.
Toronto's first and only contemporary arts festival dedicated to early childhood returns for its 5th edition with a not-to-be-missed line-up from May 4-24, 2020.
With the new Tom Patterson Theatre taking shape on the banks of the Avon River, the Stratford Festival is thrilled to announce key casting as it builds the acting company for its monumental 2020 season.
