“Why do we do that? Why do we do that? We do that to find love. Oh, I love to be in love. Don’t you love...
The seagulls squawk and cry out overhead, drawing us down into the sunkissed scene of striped umbrellas and beach chairs. We bathe in its warm glow,...
With great fanfare and a whole lot of theatre junkie excitement firing up inside me, Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino delighted us all with his announcement of the Stratford...
The ladies of Michel Tremblay’s epic play, Les Belles-Soeurs, written in 1965 and translated intelligently by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco, rarely hold back, firing...
Marcus Nance as The Creature and Charlie Gallant as Doctor Victor Frankenstein with Laura Condlln as Mary Shelley in Frankenstein Revived. Stratford Festival 2023. Photo by...
MEDIA RELEASE: Stratfest@Home launches on Apple, Android, Amazon, and Roku June 26, 2023… The magical power of the Stratford Festival has arrived on the world’s most-watched...
The word on the Stratford streets rang out strong. That Casey and Diana, the new play written with a truthful heart by Nick Green (Body Politic;...
I was having a long conversation with a good friend about Shakespeare and the idea of running wild with different ideas and interpretations. My friend was...
It’s a thrill ride, this fantastical journey, watched by a gaggle of excited kids that have filled the Avon Theatre at the Stratford Festival for their...
Under the off-balanced arch of a tree, with the rotating moon hanging overhead lighting up the courtyard, Shakespearean magic is unleashed as perfectly as one could...
It’s all heart-wrenching “glory, from the pretty boy frontman“, as Stratford Festivalmagnetically brings to life the epic Rent, the rock musical that slices together Puccini’s 1896 opera La Bohème...
“Always look on the bright side of life“, that’s what they sing, so enthusiastically to all of us, with automatic head-bobbings from one joyous side to...
“It smells of mortality,” this King Lear, as the Stratford Police Pipes and Drums parade us into the opening night of the Stratford Festival in beautiful...
It’s going to be an exciting summer for Frontmezzjunkies. That is for sure. Filling up my summer months, I’ll be fortunate beyond words to be attending...
Hamlet-911, a brand new play by famed Canadian author Ann-Marie MacDonald, begins previews at the Stratford Festival’s Studio Theatre on Thursday, July 28. Directed by Alisa...
I was a bit worried, I must admit, walking into the main Festival Theatre at the Stratford Festival this summer. You see, I have seen Chicago,...
Three Tall Women, Edward Albee’s spectacularly crafted dissection and complex exorcism of his youth flies forth with a vengeance this season at the Stratford Festival, almost capsizing...
I tried to wipe away the annoyance of a fellow theatre goer who was complaining to the very patient box office person about how terrible her...
I wasn’t prepared for this. And I didn’t quite realize it until I sat down in those social distanced chairs under the Festival Theatre‘s outdoor tent. How...
Stratford Festival YouTube Channel Hannah Moscovitch’s play about a CEO who is on a business trip for a major deal when a damaging sex scandal at the...
What a joy, I must say, with complete earnest. To have the honor of seeing theatre played out so well and with such an exacting eye...
Martha Henry as Prospero and Michael Blake as Caliban. Photography by David Hou. I honestly don’t know if I have ever seen Martha Henry on stage...
Michael Blake as Macduff (left) and Ian Lake as Macbeth in Macbeth. Photography by David Hou. In the first few flashes of thunder and lightning, the...
As I dive in day-by-day into the seemingly infinity swimming pool of streamed theatre, I can’t help but notice that the waters are deep with various...
After weeks of consultation and deliberation, Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino, Executive Director Anita Gaffney and Board Chair Carol Stephenson have come to the conclusion that the Stratford Festival’s entire 2020 season must...
