A visually arresting staging of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ sends Stratford Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino out on a high note.
As he nears the end of his tenure as artistic director of the Stratford Festival, Antoni Cimolino leaves on a...
VOICE CHOICE: Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’, at the Stratford Festival, receives a deeply felt and finely tuned production.
Still a fixture in many high school English classrooms, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman remains a searing examination of...
Here for Now World Premiere is haunting, yet elusive.
If the end of the world is coming, Julia Lederer’s I Am An Island imagines it arriving not with panic,...
Stratford’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ Turns Beckett’s Bleakness into Intriguing Theatre
In her programme note, director Molly Atkinson offers a succinct key to Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece: “There are two absolute certainties...
A ‘Hobbit’ that dazzles the eye more readily than it stirs the heart
At its official Stratford Festival matinee opening, The Hobbit draws exactly the audience one might expect: families, children, and devoted...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF IN YIDDISH is a Stirring, Richly Sung Revival
A revival of an iconic musical has to do more than trade on affection. It has to make a case...
VOICE CHOICE. Stratford’s ‘Guys and Dolls’ remains a must-see at the top of your theatre list this summer.
Does Guys and Dolls still work on a twenty-first-century stage, even if the title may strike some as slightly sexist?...
‘Sugar Road’ turns Rom-Com Familiarity into Something More Tender.
Kristen Da Silva’s Sugar Road opens with a premise tailor-made for the Thousand Islands theatre: at a fading fairground, Hannah...
Eva O’Connor’s ‘Chicken’ deserves a round of clucking applause
See what I did there? As part of the 2026 Bealtaine Theatre Festival, which brings the best of Irish Theatre...
‘AMERICAN DEVOTION’ in a time of “ELBOWS UP, CANADA.”
By the Word’s upcoming world premiere of American Devotion certainly caught me by surprise during Elbows Up, Canada. At a...
