Category: Here For Now Theatre
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Kevin Bundy as Rick and Kim Horsman as Jo in As Above at Here For Now Theatre. Photo by Ann Baggley By Galen Simmons Just as trees are known to communicate with one another and share nutrients through an underground fungal network, we as humans can have a mysterious connection with those closest to us…
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Here For Now Theatre founding artistic director Fiona Mongillo. Photo by Siobhan O’Malley By Galen Simmons What makes a life meaningful, and what sort of legacy do we leave behind when our time on this planet comes to an end? Those are the questions at the heart of Here For Now Theatre’s 2027 season, which…
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Rachel Cairns in her one-woman show, Hypothetical Baby, at Here For Now Theatre in Stratford. Photo courtesy of Here For Now Theatre By Galen Simmons Rachel Cairns’ one-woman play, Hypothetical Baby, is an uncomfortable and disorganized look inside Cairns’ mind as she recounts her experience seeking out an abortion to terminate an unplanned and unwanted…
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Maev Beaty, Rosemary Dunsmore and Brianna Rodrigues in Here For Now Theatre’s 2026 production of Suzannah. Photo by Ann Baggley By Galen Simmons Here For Now Theatre’s final play of its 2026 summer season, Suzannah, is a journey into the mind of a woman losing her grasp on the present as she processes the grief…
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Rachel Cairns in Hypothetical Baby. Photo by Dahlia Katz By Galen Simmons For playwright and performer Rachel Cairns, the idea for Hypothetical Baby began with a deeply personal experience and a question she thought would have a relatively straightforward answer. After becoming pregnant and deciding she wanted an abortion, Cairns went to her doctor to…
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Madeline Elliot Kennedy, Andrew Perun, Kevin Kruchkywich, Aidan de Salaiz and Naomi Ngebulana in Here For Now Theatre’s Early Genius. Photo courtesy of Here For Now Theatre By Galen Simmons Remember that kid in your class back in elementary school who thought he knew it all? They would answer every question the teacher asked, whether…
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Kelly Van der Burg and other members of the cast in Ghosts of My House at Here For Now Theatre. Photo courtesy of Here For Now Theatre By Galen Simmons How can a family move on when grief seems to be tearing apart its very foundation piece by piece? Playwright Susanna Fournier and director Leora…
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Shannon Taylor, Jasmine Case and Zara Jestadt in Love Us Most. Here For Now Theatre 2026. Photo courtesy of Here For Now Theatre By Galen Simmons There are more than a few hard truths in playwright Sara Farb and director Sabryn Rock’s world-premiere production of Love Us Most at Here For Now Theatre this…
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By Galen Simmons We are all on an island and it is sinking. Is there a life to live somewhere else or do we just live life to the fullest in the time we have left here? Is there an in-between? Those were the thoughts with which I was left after watching playwright Julia Lederer…
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By Galen Simmons Here For Now Theatre has entered a new phase of its growth with the appointment of Crystal Spicer as the company’s first-ever executive director, reflecting both the organization’s rapid expansion and setting the stage for its long-term sustainability in Stratford’s independent theatre scene. For Spicer, the role represents a return to her…