Stratford Festival

The festival purchased its very own woodlot in Tobermory to mill birch slats for the stage. (Photography by doublespace photography)

Inside the Stratford Festival’s $72-million theatre makeover

This summer—after years of delays—the show will finally go on at Stratford’s immaculately redesigned Tom Patterson Theatre

How playing Scout Finch at Stratford has made a kid wise beyond her years

Clara Poppy Kushnir is the toast of this summer’s festival for her turn in To Kill a Mockingbird, and the story’s dark themes have seldom been so relevant

The Thrill: Pop-culture lessons, and reviving the theatre

On this week’s pop-culture podcast: what we’ve learned from pop culture, and the Stratford Festival’s plan to engage the young

Stratford Festival's celebrity power

Stratford Festival’s celebrity power

Can Stephen Lewis, Colin Mochrie and Tommy guitar school reboot the indebted festival?

The last of the rhyming poets

The last of the rhyming poets

Richard Wilbur’s meticulously crafted couplets are an anomaly in modern poetry

My part in the Stratford adventure

From 1959: Irish director Tyrone Guthrie on how he guided the beginnings of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, recalling the the gloomy prophecies, the birth pangs and the starry successes