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Friday, October 31, 2025

Halloween: Trick or Treat with the orphans of Annie | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

Backstage Halloween! 🎃 As fun as it looks, it's a hard knock life being a show kid! That's why it's important to remind the girls playing the orphans in Annie that a season at the Festiva…

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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Macbeth: "Banquo's Ghost" (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

"Quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!" The chilling moment when Macbeth is haunted by Banquo's ghost. Shakespeare's tragedy is the perfect play for spooky season, and “Robert Lepage’s…

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: "Here I Am" (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

Here she is! đŸ€© Shakura Dickson makes quite an entrance in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as "the American Soap Queen" Christine Colgate, arriving for a holiday in the French Riviera. đŸ„–đŸ· T…

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Annie: "N.Y.C." Dance Break (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

There's nothing like a toe-tapping dance break. 💃đŸ•ș "One of the best parts of this Annie are the dizzying dance numbers" (Toronto Star). For this season's Annie, Director-Choreographer…

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Macbeth: "Aftermath" (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

After killing Duncan, Macbeth is afraid to think what he's done and Lady Macbeth must take matters into her own hands to cover their tracks. There's just 13 performances left of Macbeth! Ge…

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Who Are We? Canadian Culture on the Global Stage | Everyday Forum Podcast by Stratford Festival

In this episode, join playwright and actor in Forgiveness Hiro Kanagawa, Editor of the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia Dr. Anne Nothof and Canadian Studies scholar Peter Hodgins as they examin…

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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Macbeth: Macbeth's Motel (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

Robert Lepage's Macbeth is "a towering achievement" with "one of the most impressive sets to ever dominate a Stratford Festival stage" (Postmedia). Watch as Macbeth's motel comes together be…

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Saturday, October 11, 2025

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: "Oklahoma" Dance Break (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

Today’s musical clip is from Oklahoma! But it’s the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels production number, not the Rodger’s and Hammerstein musical! Michele Shuster is Jolene Oakes, the fiery redh…

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Friday, October 10, 2025

Anne of Green Gables: "Tell Us About Yourself" (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

There’s still time to catch the show everyone’s raving about. As you see from this clip "Caroline Toal is Anne, with every fibre of being" (Toronto Star) while "Sarah Dodd and Tim Campbe…

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Saturday, October 4, 2025

The Ultimate Travel Destination: Stratford, Ontario | Stratford Festival by Stratford Festival

📍 Stratford, Ontario is the ultimate travel destination. Home to North America’s leading theatre company, this gorgeous small town boasts an abundance of fabulous restaurants and beauti…

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Friday, October 3, 2025

Annie: "Easy Street" (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

📱 Showgirl Miss Aggie Hannigan drops a new single today: "Easy Street", featuring Rooster and Lily St. Regis! Book your tickets now: https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/PlaysAndEven…

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Friday, September 26, 2025

Macbeth: Meeting with Banquo (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

After hearing the prophecy of the weird witches, Macbeth and Banquo agree to discuss what it all means at a later time. Reimagined during the Quebec biker wars of the 1990s, Robert Lepage's…

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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: "Great Big Stuff" (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

Who doesn't want "Great Big Stuff'?! đŸ€‘ Liam Tobin is "astonishingly good" (Toronto Star) as small-time swindler Freddy Benson who has great big ambition in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. This …

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud with Stephen Greenblatt | Everyday Forum Podcast by Stratford Festival

In this episode, join renowned Shakespeare scholar, general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and Harvard University Professor Stephen Greenblatt in conversation with Artistic Director Antoni…

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Anne of Green Gables: "Arrives in Avonlea" (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

"Oh no, am I talking too much?" It's the start of a beautiful thing when Anne Shirley steps off the train at Avonlea. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert may have asked for a boy from the orphanage…

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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Sense and Sensibility: "Gift Horse" (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

đŸ˜± “A horse from a strange man?” The Dashwood sisters of Sense and Sensibility could not be more divided on this extravagant gift from Mr. Willoughby: Marianne (Olivia Sinclair-Brisban…

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Friday, September 19, 2025

Macbeth: Quick Change with Graham Abbey | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

A ghostly transformation. đŸ‘» See how Graham Abbey quick changes in Macbeth. Playing the role of Banquo, he rushes off-stage after his character's gruesome death to become a ghost, with a n…

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StratFest+: New Arts Education Platform | Stratford Festival by Stratford Festival

Teachers — are you ready to liven up your lessons? Our new digital arts platform StratFest+ has just launched, bringing world-class theatre and resources directly to schools, colleges, uni…

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Thursday, September 18, 2025

The Winter's Tale: Hermione and Polixenes (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

When the seed of jealousy is planted in The Winter's Tale. Having easily persuaded him to stay longer, Hermione asks Polixenes to tell her about his childhood friendship with her husband, Ki…

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Forgiveness: "Ralph Apologizes" (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

The moment when Ralph MacLean forgives himself. Forgiveness is based on Mark Sakamoto's memoir and chronicles his grandparents' struggles during and after World War Two. His grandfather Ralp…

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Monday, September 15, 2025

Storytelling and the Oral Tradition: From Mythology to Modernity | Everyday Forum Podcast by Stratford Festival

In this episode, join playwright Erin Shields, Nehiyaw storyteller Trina Moyan, and University of Toronto professor Adriana Brook as they explore storytelling as a transformative force acros…

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Sunday, September 14, 2025

As You Like It: "Seven Ages of Man" (All the World's a Stage) Excerpt | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

"All the world's a stage." One of Shakespeare's most iconic monologues in As You Like It, called the Seven Ages of Man, is delivered by the character Jaques (played here by Aaron Krohn) and …

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Saturday, September 13, 2025

Annie: Dance Break from "It's The Hard Knock Life" | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

Leapin' lizards! đŸ€© “Harper Rae Asch is sensational” as Annie and her "fellow orphans are also terrifyingly talented, earning a mid-show standing ovation" (Toronto Star). Here they are…

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Thursday, September 11, 2025

Storytelling and Oral Tradition: Ransacking Troy | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

Sisters are doing it for themselves! Playwright Erin Shields talks about the power of women working together to end the Trojan War in her new play Ransacking Troy. For more, listen to the la…

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Wednesday, September 10, 2025

The Winter's Tale: "Leontes Wakes Up" (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

The Wall Street Journal is raving about The Winter's Tale: "It wasn’t just the most gripping version of this play I have seen, but one of the finest Shakespeare stagings I have experienced…

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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Forgiveness: "War Starts Here" (Excerpt) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

Last chance to see Forgiveness! This "gripping production" (The New York Times) must end September 27, 2025. Book your tickets now to experience this "quietly profound" (Postmedia) play bas…

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Friday, September 5, 2025

Our 2025 Season in Film | Stratford Festival by Stratford Festival

Let's go to the movies! đŸŽ„ With the Toronto International Film Festival kicking off, we take a look at our 2025 season on the silver screen: đŸ¶ Following the Broadway premiere of the mu…

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Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Dangerous Liaisons: Wig Maintenance | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

There's no bad hair days when you have incredibly talented and dedicated artists backstage. For this season's production of Dangerous Liaisons, there are more than 15 custom-made wigs. The…

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Quick Change with Jamie Murray | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

👀 Turning some serious lewks. Jamie Murray transforms from nightclub dancer, Oklahoma cowgirl to two very different maids in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, thanks to the bold and colourful cost…

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Saturday, August 16, 2025

This Rough Magic | Stratford Festival 2026 by Stratford Festival

In case you missed it — our 2026 season has been announced! Let us know which production you're most looking forward to in the comments. Without further ado, the 2026 playbill: Festival…

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Thursday, August 14, 2025

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Quick Change with Jason Sermonia | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

đŸ›Žïž From French bellhop to Oklahoma cowboy! đŸ€  Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is full of surprises (and laughs) — plus Dance Captain and ensemble member Jason Sermonia rocks tons of amazing…

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