The first image grabs hold, even before Shakespeare has begun his relentless march toward tragedy. A body slowly emerges from beneath the stage, crawling upward as...
We went into each, hesitatingly, thinking these two shows would be strictly just ‘cute’. And probably well done, but not much more than that. I tend...
Three moonlit bodies motor out in an unexpected vehicle for a watery drop, hooded in wordless violence that sets the cinematic scene with a vengeance. It’s...
Beautifully gowned women adorned in diamonds swirl in a rainbow of colors across the ballroom floor, all looking for their idealized prince. They are all ripe...
It’s been another wild year, running back and forth from Toronto to NYC, with stops in London, England and London, Ontario, Canada. Mostly to make sure...
With just one month of performances left in the 2024 season, the Stratford Festivalhas its preparations for 2025 in full swing. So don’t waste any time...
On that long, elegant thrust at Stratford Festival‘s Tom Patterson Theatre, a fiddle parade of characters moves into place, setting up the stompingly good formula for...
The set-up is deliciously simple, square, and angled symmetrically, with flowers arranged just so by the fantastic Lucy Peacock (Stratford’s Les Belles-Soeurs) who is playing big...
Filled to overflowing with pampered aristocrats caught in the dazzled afflicted age of the 19th-Century, London Assurance, written most assuredly by the precocious Dion Boucicault at...
A door opens to the smokey arrival of a man challenging the system and himself in an attempt to create something personal and meaningful, much like...
As You Like It, Macbeth and The Winter’s Tale join musicals Annie and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels August 28, 2024… Stratford Festival Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino is proud to...
July 18, 2024…There was some great news coming from the Stratford Festival! Both of their acclaimed musicals – Something Rotten! and La Cage aux Folles –...
Drumming up a goddess in white, she sings from the opening monologue that lays the groundwork for Stratford Festival‘s Romeo and Juliet. It’s a sparkling starry...
Surrounded on all sides by an excited opening night crowd, that’s not exactly gaudy, but certainly glittery, Stratford Festival gloriously presents a thrilling production of the...
Tom Patterson was a man of great vision. He was a Stratford, Ontario-born journalist who founded the Stratford Festival, then called the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the largest theatre festival in...
“Welcome to the Renaissance“, indeed! Captivatingly sung by the jaunting minstrel, joyfully delivered by Jeremy Carver-James (Citadel’s 9 to 5) standing tall on his soap box,...
Two siblings stand tall, side by side, in the beautiful warm light of connection at the Stratford Festival‘s premiere opening night. There’s a crack of light...
It’s going to be some Shakespeare-heavy months ahead, especially around those famously doomed lovers named Romeo and Juliet, as I fly into the Stratford Festival (formally...
“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;...
