Category: 2025
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By Galen Simmons There’s nothing quite like being home for the holidays, and for those of us who call Stratford and the surrounding Perth County home, Here For Now Theatre’s world premiere of Ruby and the Reindeer hits about as close to home as it gets. Set on a dairy farm on Perth Line 29, Ruby and the Reindeer features everything…
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By Galen Simmons There’s nothing quite like being home for the holidays, and for those of us who call Stratford and the surrounding Perth County home, Here For Now Theatre’s world premiere of Ruby and the Reindeer hits about as close to home as it gets. Set on a dairy farm on Perth Line 29, Ruby and the Reindeer features everything…
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By Galen Simmons When given the opportunity to undergo a highly experimental procedure with a 100 per-cent guarantee of conception after trying every other method, how far will one couple go to start a family and what lessons about parenthood and their relationship will they learn along the way? Here For Now Theatre’s winter-season, world-premiere…
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By Galen Simmons When given the opportunity to undergo a highly experimental procedure with a 100 per-cent guarantee of conception after trying every other method, how far will one couple go to start a family and what lessons about parenthood and their relationship will they learn along the way? Here For Now Theatre’s winter-season, world-premiere…
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By Galen Simmons When given the opportunity to undergo a highly experimental procedure with a 100 per-cent guarantee of conception after trying every other method, how far will one couple go to start a family and what lessons about parenthood and their relationship will they learn along the way? Here For Now Theatre’s winter-season, world-premiere…
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By Galen Simmons Whether she was set up by the gods as a scapegoat for all things chaotic or curiosity got the better of her, Pandora was always going to open that box, allegedly unleashing all the evils of mankind. In Pandora, the first-ever production to be staged as part of a winter season for…
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By Galen SimmonsWhen I walked into the Studio Theatre to review Spontaneous Theatre and the Stratford Festival’s Goblin: Oedipus on opening night Oct. 17, I expected to watch a hilarious sendup of the famous Greek tragedy by the goblins, Wug, Kragva and Moog, similar to that of Goblin: Macbeth in 2023.What I didn’t expect was…
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Church to officially take on artistic-director role in November 2026 By Galen Simmons Having just been announced as the Stratford Festival’s next artistic director, Jonathan Church is looking forward to immersing himself fully in the Festival and getting to know its artists and audiences before he officially takes over the role from Antoni Cimolino in…
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By Galen Simmons It’s not about where you’re going, but who you are when you get there. In the world premiere of playwright Erin Shields’ Ransacking Troy, as directed by Jackie Maxwell for the 2025 Stratford Festival, the classic Greek epics Homer’s Iliad and The Odyssey are reimagined with nine Greek women at their core,…
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By Galen Simmons While photographs and historical accounts of war may tell us what happened, the emotions – the fear and anxiety of being attacked, the boredom of waiting for something to happen, the adrenalin-pumping excitement of action, and the crushing sadness of losing friends – can best be relayed to those of us who…