Stratford Festival (@stratfest.bsky.social)

@stratfest.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 12:01 PM

🎉Casting is announced for our 75th season! 🎉
The 2027 season, the first under the artistic direction of Jonathan Church, brings together celebrated Stratford veterans, returning favourites and a number of artists making their Festival debuts.

Visit our website for details: https://ow.ly/MFPb50ZXobr

@stratfest.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 1:34 PM

So happy you had a wonderful visit and thanks for sharing these gorgeous photos!

@stratfest.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:00 PM

Warmest congratulations to Anne Carson, poet, essayist, translator and playwright, on being awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. We were proud to produce her acclaimed adaptations of Sophocles' Elektra in 2012 and Euripides’ The Bakkhai in 2017.

@stratfest.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 10:00 PM

With his final season as Artistic Director nearing its close, Antoni Cimolino reflects on a legacy built on artistic ambition, collaboration and a deep belief in our shared humanity in a new conversation with Next Magazine’s Ryan Borochovitz.

https://ow.ly/nJMo50ZSU3N

#SFTempest #SFSatSunMon

@thestage.co.uk Sep 23, 2026, 12:46 PMReposted by @stratfest.bsky.social

Jonathan Church’s first season at the helm of Canada’s Stratford Festival is to include a production of Mary Poppins directed by Jonathan O’Boyle and Stephen Mear. Read more 👇

@aislingmurph.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 11:22 AMReposted by @stratfest.bsky.social

Big changes happening at the Stratford Festival next year. (Revised performance times! Three musicals! A two-part play!)

Some familiar work in 2027, too: Anne of Green Gables and Chicago are back as remounts.

Lots more @theglobeandmail.com:

www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...

@stratfest.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 10:00 PM

A decade after moving to Canada from the U.S., Globe and Mail theatre critic Aisling Murphy shares the 10 productions that helped define her understanding of what it means to be Canadian, including our Casey and Diana and Anne of Green Gables.
https://ow.ly/uL9B50ZPqzo

#SFGreenGables #SFCaseyDiana

@stratfest.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 3:15 PM

Fiona Reid and Carter Gulselth, who play the formidable Lady Bracknell and deliciously absurd Algernon Moncrieff, spoke with Next Magazine about finding truth in Oscar Wilde's witty comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest.

https://ow.ly/uGyR50ZOlsR

#SFEarnest

@stratfest.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 2:02 PM

Othello is Shakespeare’s only title role explicitly identified as a racialized Black man. In this season’s production, Jordin Hall and Jessica B. Hill discuss how Black kinship enriches the story and its representation onstage.

https://ow.ly/Kc3L50ZNSol

#SFOthello

@stratfest.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 8:00 PM

From his Stratford debut in Guys and Dolls in 2017 to this season's return nine years later, Devon Michael Brown has come full circle. He chats with Intermission about his journey and balancing the acrobatics of performing in two musicals.

https://ow.ly/bQK550ZMKhY

#SFGuysDolls #SFRotten

@stratfest.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 1:49 PM

Michael Man spoke with Intermission Magazine to reflect on shapeshifting into three vastly different characters this season in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Hobbit and The Tao of the World.

www.intermissionmagazine.ca/features/mic...

#SFDream #SFHobbit #SFTao

@stratfest.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 10:00 PM

The New York Times chief theatre critic Helen Shaw saw four productions during a whirlwind two-day visit to Stratford. She celebrates Antoni Cimolino's "final, gracious" season and remarks that the shows she saw "contained more splendor than many New York spectacles."

https://ow.ly/UXGE50ZLC7h

@stratfest.bsky.social Aug 31, 2026, 5:00 PM

To bring Prospero and Miranda's relationship to life in The Tempest, Geraint Wyn Davies and Ashley Dingwell forged a close creative bond built on trust, openness and vulnerability.

Rea more in their Next Magazine interview: https://ow.ly/9YjK50ZHomp

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