Stratford Festival
@stratfest.bsky.social
North America’s leading repertory theatre company
🎭 Classics, new plays, musicals & Shakespeare
🎟️ 2026 season on-sale January 10
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https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
🎭 Classics, new plays, musicals & Shakespeare
🎟️ 2026 season on-sale January 10
💻 Stream via STRATFEST@HOME
https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Anne of Green Gables, Kat Sandler's adaptation that "breathes new-found relevance into this classic Canadian tale" (Toronto Star), has made The Globe and Mail's list of top 10 shows in 2025!
What shows made your list of favourites in 2025?
#SFGreenGables #SF2025 #StratfordFestival
What shows made your list of favourites in 2025?
#SFGreenGables #SF2025 #StratfordFestival
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Top 10 Season.
I've seen just under 220 shows so far this year – narrowing this down was such a treat.
Here's my first solo-bylined Top 10 for @theglobeandmail.com, featuring shows of all sizes from across Ontario.
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
I've seen just under 220 shows so far this year – narrowing this down was such a treat.
Here's my first solo-bylined Top 10 for @theglobeandmail.com, featuring shows of all sizes from across Ontario.
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
The best theatre of 2025 from Toronto, Stratford and Shaw
Aisling Murphy shares her top 10 picks of the year, her first as Globe theatre reporter
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Anne of Green Gables, Kat Sandler's adaptation that "breathes new-found relevance into this classic Canadian tale" (Toronto Star), has made The Globe and Mail's list of top 10 shows in 2025!
What shows made your list of favourites in 2025?
#SFGreenGables #SF2025 #StratfordFestival
What shows made your list of favourites in 2025?
#SFGreenGables #SF2025 #StratfordFestival
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A new two-week residency at the @stratfest.bsky.social in Ontario immerses #Dartmouth students in the full ecosystem of North America’s largest classical repertory theater company.
Theater in Practice: Dartmouth’s Stratford Festival Residency | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
A new partnership immerses theater students in the professional world of North America’s largest classical repertory theater company.
fas.dartmouth.edu
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
A new two-week residency at the @stratfest.bsky.social in Ontario immerses #Dartmouth students in the full ecosystem of North America’s largest classical repertory theater company.
"Stratford and its namesake theater festival offer a bit of everything for the casual theater fan and the obsessives like me. I’m already counting down the days until I can go back."
Read more about Hour Detroit Magazine's theatre trip to Stratford:
https://ow.ly/P9zK50Xj2vS
Read more about Hour Detroit Magazine's theatre trip to Stratford:
https://ow.ly/P9zK50Xj2vS
October 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Stratford and its namesake theater festival offer a bit of everything for the casual theater fan and the obsessives like me. I’m already counting down the days until I can go back."
Read more about Hour Detroit Magazine's theatre trip to Stratford:
https://ow.ly/P9zK50Xj2vS
Read more about Hour Detroit Magazine's theatre trip to Stratford:
https://ow.ly/P9zK50Xj2vS
Antoni Cimolino announces casting for the 12 productions set to take the stage in 2026, his final season as Artistic Director.
Click here for details: www.stratfordfestival.ca/Media/NewsRe...
Click here for details: www.stratfordfestival.ca/Media/NewsRe...
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Antoni Cimolino announces casting for the 12 productions set to take the stage in 2026, his final season as Artistic Director.
Click here for details: www.stratfordfestival.ca/Media/NewsRe...
Click here for details: www.stratfordfestival.ca/Media/NewsRe...
Time to hit the brakes!🚗 Before the day is over, we #AskAnArchivist one last thing: are there any automobiles in your collection?
Many cars, buses and military vehicles (some 2D) have made appearances in past productions. Can you name the shows?
#StratfordFestivalArchives
Many cars, buses and military vehicles (some 2D) have made appearances in past productions. Can you name the shows?
#StratfordFestivalArchives
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Time to hit the brakes!🚗 Before the day is over, we #AskAnArchivist one last thing: are there any automobiles in your collection?
Many cars, buses and military vehicles (some 2D) have made appearances in past productions. Can you name the shows?
#StratfordFestivalArchives
Many cars, buses and military vehicles (some 2D) have made appearances in past productions. Can you name the shows?
#StratfordFestivalArchives
💃 We #AskAnArchivist: do you have any female firsts represented in your archives?
Tanya Moiseiwitsch was our first designer and designed the Festival Theatre thrust stage in 1953 – quite the feat, considering the first female directors didn’t hit our stages until the 1970s.
Tanya Moiseiwitsch was our first designer and designed the Festival Theatre thrust stage in 1953 – quite the feat, considering the first female directors didn’t hit our stages until the 1970s.
October 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
💃 We #AskAnArchivist: do you have any female firsts represented in your archives?
Tanya Moiseiwitsch was our first designer and designed the Festival Theatre thrust stage in 1953 – quite the feat, considering the first female directors didn’t hit our stages until the 1970s.
Tanya Moiseiwitsch was our first designer and designed the Festival Theatre thrust stage in 1953 – quite the feat, considering the first female directors didn’t hit our stages until the 1970s.
We #AskAnArchivist: are there any Taylor Swift related items in your archives?
You could say we're experts on 'the fate of Ophelia'. This doll carried by Adrienne Gould, Ophelia in 2008's Hamlet, starts off pristine, but like its owner, ends the play broken and drowned.
You could say we're experts on 'the fate of Ophelia'. This doll carried by Adrienne Gould, Ophelia in 2008's Hamlet, starts off pristine, but like its owner, ends the play broken and drowned.
October 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We #AskAnArchivist: are there any Taylor Swift related items in your archives?
You could say we're experts on 'the fate of Ophelia'. This doll carried by Adrienne Gould, Ophelia in 2008's Hamlet, starts off pristine, but like its owner, ends the play broken and drowned.
You could say we're experts on 'the fate of Ophelia'. This doll carried by Adrienne Gould, Ophelia in 2008's Hamlet, starts off pristine, but like its owner, ends the play broken and drowned.
We're prepared for anything! 🧟 We #AskAnArchivist: what item in your archives will help you survive a zombie apocalypse?
Prospero's staffs from The Tempest can be used as walking sticks and even weapons – they are also magical and can be used to control the weather.
Prospero's staffs from The Tempest can be used as walking sticks and even weapons – they are also magical and can be used to control the weather.
October 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We're prepared for anything! 🧟 We #AskAnArchivist: what item in your archives will help you survive a zombie apocalypse?
Prospero's staffs from The Tempest can be used as walking sticks and even weapons – they are also magical and can be used to control the weather.
Prospero's staffs from The Tempest can be used as walking sticks and even weapons – they are also magical and can be used to control the weather.
Taking the world by storm! 🌏 We #AskAnArchivist to show us something from your collection in a foreign language.
This poster hung in the lobby of the Mhat Theatre in Moscow when our production of King Lear, directed by David William and starring William Hutt, toured in 1972.
This poster hung in the lobby of the Mhat Theatre in Moscow when our production of King Lear, directed by David William and starring William Hutt, toured in 1972.
October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Taking the world by storm! 🌏 We #AskAnArchivist to show us something from your collection in a foreign language.
This poster hung in the lobby of the Mhat Theatre in Moscow when our production of King Lear, directed by David William and starring William Hutt, toured in 1972.
This poster hung in the lobby of the Mhat Theatre in Moscow when our production of King Lear, directed by David William and starring William Hutt, toured in 1972.
Lettuce entertain you! 🥬 We #AskAnArchivist: what is your best food-themed item?
Feast your eyes on this costume made from plastic vegetables. Designed by Dany Lyne for the 2005 production of Into the Woods, Susan Gilmour wore it as The Witch.
#StratfordFestivalArchives
Feast your eyes on this costume made from plastic vegetables. Designed by Dany Lyne for the 2005 production of Into the Woods, Susan Gilmour wore it as The Witch.
#StratfordFestivalArchives
October 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Lettuce entertain you! 🥬 We #AskAnArchivist: what is your best food-themed item?
Feast your eyes on this costume made from plastic vegetables. Designed by Dany Lyne for the 2005 production of Into the Woods, Susan Gilmour wore it as The Witch.
#StratfordFestivalArchives
Feast your eyes on this costume made from plastic vegetables. Designed by Dany Lyne for the 2005 production of Into the Woods, Susan Gilmour wore it as The Witch.
#StratfordFestivalArchives
Today is #AskAnArchivist day!
Our team of archivists are ready to answer questions on their day-to-day job, what experience and education prepared them for their roles and about the archives collection itself.
🔍 Send us your questions!
Our team of archivists are ready to answer questions on their day-to-day job, what experience and education prepared them for their roles and about the archives collection itself.
🔍 Send us your questions!
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today is #AskAnArchivist day!
Our team of archivists are ready to answer questions on their day-to-day job, what experience and education prepared them for their roles and about the archives collection itself.
🔍 Send us your questions!
Our team of archivists are ready to answer questions on their day-to-day job, what experience and education prepared them for their roles and about the archives collection itself.
🔍 Send us your questions!
Full of rough magic. ✨
Ahead of #AskAnArchivist Day on Thursday October 16, we've searched our archive collection for a unique object deserving of the spotlight. Behold, the cloak that Martha Henry wore as Prospero in our 2018 production of The Tempest.
Ahead of #AskAnArchivist Day on Thursday October 16, we've searched our archive collection for a unique object deserving of the spotlight. Behold, the cloak that Martha Henry wore as Prospero in our 2018 production of The Tempest.
October 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Full of rough magic. ✨
Ahead of #AskAnArchivist Day on Thursday October 16, we've searched our archive collection for a unique object deserving of the spotlight. Behold, the cloak that Martha Henry wore as Prospero in our 2018 production of The Tempest.
Ahead of #AskAnArchivist Day on Thursday October 16, we've searched our archive collection for a unique object deserving of the spotlight. Behold, the cloak that Martha Henry wore as Prospero in our 2018 production of The Tempest.
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁
May we all be as thankful as Little Orphan Annie, a truly perfect role model for this holiday.
📷 Harper Rae Asch with members of the company in Annie. Photography by David Hou.
May we all be as thankful as Little Orphan Annie, a truly perfect role model for this holiday.
📷 Harper Rae Asch with members of the company in Annie. Photography by David Hou.
October 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁
May we all be as thankful as Little Orphan Annie, a truly perfect role model for this holiday.
📷 Harper Rae Asch with members of the company in Annie. Photography by David Hou.
May we all be as thankful as Little Orphan Annie, a truly perfect role model for this holiday.
📷 Harper Rae Asch with members of the company in Annie. Photography by David Hou.
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Had fun today with these guys and the whole cast of "As You Like It" at @stratfest.bsky.social as I joined them for the finale
It was an honour for me to be asked to write the music
for Bill Shakespeare's lyrics RS
It was an honour for me to be asked to write the music
for Bill Shakespeare's lyrics RS
October 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Had fun today with these guys and the whole cast of "As You Like It" at @stratfest.bsky.social as I joined them for the finale
It was an honour for me to be asked to write the music
for Bill Shakespeare's lyrics RS
It was an honour for me to be asked to write the music
for Bill Shakespeare's lyrics RS
We have exciting news! Jonathan Church will be the next Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival.
October 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We have exciting news! Jonathan Church will be the next Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival.
"It's not just about finding kid-friendly shows, it's about introducing literacy, culture and critical thinking about the larger issues in life that they will one day confront, because 'All the world's a stage.'"
Adam Waxman reflects on the importance of bringing children to the Stratford Festival.
Adam Waxman reflects on the importance of bringing children to the Stratford Festival.
Shared Stages: The Value of Attending the Stratford Festival with Children
On a warm early-September night, Pete Townshend propels his arm into his signature windmill-thrashing of his guitar to the roar of the thousands who have attend
dinemagazine.ca
September 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"It's not just about finding kid-friendly shows, it's about introducing literacy, culture and critical thinking about the larger issues in life that they will one day confront, because 'All the world's a stage.'"
Adam Waxman reflects on the importance of bringing children to the Stratford Festival.
Adam Waxman reflects on the importance of bringing children to the Stratford Festival.
Ready for a show to "smash the Bechdel test all to pieces"? 💪
Maev Beaty and Irene Poole spoke with @intermissionmag.bsky.social to discuss Ransacking Troy, Erin Shields's new "feminist reimagining of Homer’s epics, directed by Jackie Maxwell." www.intermissionmagazine.ca/features/ran...
#SFTroy
Maev Beaty and Irene Poole spoke with @intermissionmag.bsky.social to discuss Ransacking Troy, Erin Shields's new "feminist reimagining of Homer’s epics, directed by Jackie Maxwell." www.intermissionmagazine.ca/features/ran...
#SFTroy
Maev Beaty and Irene Poole join forces in 'Ransacking Troy'
“This is an ensemble of some of the most extraordinary femme actors in the country and beyond,” says Beaty.
www.intermissionmagazine.ca
September 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Ready for a show to "smash the Bechdel test all to pieces"? 💪
Maev Beaty and Irene Poole spoke with @intermissionmag.bsky.social to discuss Ransacking Troy, Erin Shields's new "feminist reimagining of Homer’s epics, directed by Jackie Maxwell." www.intermissionmagazine.ca/features/ran...
#SFTroy
Maev Beaty and Irene Poole spoke with @intermissionmag.bsky.social to discuss Ransacking Troy, Erin Shields's new "feminist reimagining of Homer’s epics, directed by Jackie Maxwell." www.intermissionmagazine.ca/features/ran...
#SFTroy
It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Graham Greene. Graham was a globally recognized film actor and an award-winning stage and television performer, who joined us here at the Stratford Festival for one unforgettable season, in 2007.
September 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Graham Greene. Graham was a globally recognized film actor and an award-winning stage and television performer, who joined us here at the Stratford Festival for one unforgettable season, in 2007.
Did you know our musicals are performed by a live orchestra?
Toronto Star arts critic Joshua Chong recently sat in on two performances of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Annie to see how musical magic is made behind the scenes!
#SFAnnie #SFScoundrels
Toronto Star arts critic Joshua Chong recently sat in on two performances of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Annie to see how musical magic is made behind the scenes!
#SFAnnie #SFScoundrels
At the Stratford Festival, I joined the orchestra below (and above) the stage for a new perspective
The Star's Joshua Chong visited the orchestra pit at the Avon Theatre and the orchestra loft at the Festival Theatre. Here's what he discovered.
www.thestar.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Did you know our musicals are performed by a live orchestra?
Toronto Star arts critic Joshua Chong recently sat in on two performances of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Annie to see how musical magic is made behind the scenes!
#SFAnnie #SFScoundrels
Toronto Star arts critic Joshua Chong recently sat in on two performances of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Annie to see how musical magic is made behind the scenes!
#SFAnnie #SFScoundrels
What better salve can there be than an old story with love at its core? ❤️🔥Sara Farb and Christopher Allen (who play Rosalind and Orlando respectively) spoke with Next Magazine about this season's As You Like It.
#SFAsYouLikeIt
#SFAsYouLikeIt
The apocalypse needn’t be the end of the world in Stratford’s ‘As You Like It’ » NEXT Magazine
Sara Farb and Christopher Allen discuss Shakespearean perseverance
nextmag.ca
August 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
What better salve can there be than an old story with love at its core? ❤️🔥Sara Farb and Christopher Allen (who play Rosalind and Orlando respectively) spoke with Next Magazine about this season's As You Like It.
#SFAsYouLikeIt
#SFAsYouLikeIt
We're thrilled to be nominated for Attractions Ontario's 10th Annual Ontario’s Choice Awards!
Vote for us to win the Top Performing Arts spot. You can vote once a day until September 7, 2025: attractionsontario.ca/poll/top-per...
📷 Photo by Ann Baggley.
Vote for us to win the Top Performing Arts spot. You can vote once a day until September 7, 2025: attractionsontario.ca/poll/top-per...
📷 Photo by Ann Baggley.
August 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We're thrilled to be nominated for Attractions Ontario's 10th Annual Ontario’s Choice Awards!
Vote for us to win the Top Performing Arts spot. You can vote once a day until September 7, 2025: attractionsontario.ca/poll/top-per...
📷 Photo by Ann Baggley.
Vote for us to win the Top Performing Arts spot. You can vote once a day until September 7, 2025: attractionsontario.ca/poll/top-per...
📷 Photo by Ann Baggley.
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Ransacking Troy opens at @stratfest.bsky.social next week! Here's my profile of playwright Erin Shields, for whom the future – and past – has always been female.
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre...
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre...
For playwright Erin Shields, the future is female – but what about the past?
Shields is preparing for a string of world premieres with a collection of plays that ask: Where are the women?
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Ransacking Troy opens at @stratfest.bsky.social next week! Here's my profile of playwright Erin Shields, for whom the future – and past – has always been female.
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre...
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre...
✨ Announcing our 2026 season! ✨
The culmination of a 40-year career with the Festival, including 14 seasons as Artistic Director, this will be Antoni Cimolino's farewell season, with plays united under the theme of "This Rough Magic".
The 2026 playbill across our four venues...
The culmination of a 40-year career with the Festival, including 14 seasons as Artistic Director, this will be Antoni Cimolino's farewell season, with plays united under the theme of "This Rough Magic".
The 2026 playbill across our four venues...
August 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
✨ Announcing our 2026 season! ✨
The culmination of a 40-year career with the Festival, including 14 seasons as Artistic Director, this will be Antoni Cimolino's farewell season, with plays united under the theme of "This Rough Magic".
The 2026 playbill across our four venues...
The culmination of a 40-year career with the Festival, including 14 seasons as Artistic Director, this will be Antoni Cimolino's farewell season, with plays united under the theme of "This Rough Magic".
The 2026 playbill across our four venues...
American friends, are you worried about how you’ll be received in Canada this summer?
Fear not! As Jesse Green writes in the New York Times, our arms are wide open for you here in Stratford.
Fear not! As Jesse Green writes in the New York Times, our arms are wide open for you here in Stratford.
On Canada’s Top Stage, Macbeth and Annie Are Talking to Americans
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
American friends, are you worried about how you’ll be received in Canada this summer?
Fear not! As Jesse Green writes in the New York Times, our arms are wide open for you here in Stratford.
Fear not! As Jesse Green writes in the New York Times, our arms are wide open for you here in Stratford.
How's this for a boost, Canada? From the Chicago Tribune's chief theatre critic, Chris Jones: "Canadian theater, and Canadians in general, are doing better than their neighbors to the south at focusing on the core values that hold the nation together."
Column: The Stratford Festival of theater rediscovers a beating Canadian heart
This summer’s slate includes “Annie,” a very Canadian “Anne of Green Gables,” the thought-provoking “Forgiveness” and a very moving “Winter’s T…
www.chicagotribune.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
How's this for a boost, Canada? From the Chicago Tribune's chief theatre critic, Chris Jones: "Canadian theater, and Canadians in general, are doing better than their neighbors to the south at focusing on the core values that hold the nation together."