NORTHERN ARTS PERSPECTIVE
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Blyth Festival, Blyth, ON
2026 Season
Here For Now Theatre, Stratford, ON
2027 Season
2026 Season
2025 Season
- Here For Now Theatre review: Ruby and the Reindeer is a fun, heartfelt and local holiday story
- Here For Now Theatre review: Reproduktion offers a surreal and soul-searching journey into parenthood
- Here For Now Theatre Review: Jessica B. Hill is a one-woman whirlwind as she explores universal chaos in Pandora
Stratford Festival, Stratford, ON
2027 Season
2026 Season
2025 Season
- Stratford Festival review: The goblins are back in full form, dressed in togas and waving pool noodles, for Goblin: Oedipus
- Jonathan Church looking forward to getting to know Stratford Festival and its audiences as artistic director
- Stratford Festival review: Ransacking Troy takes audiences on an odyssey with a reimagined Greek classic
- Stratford Festival review: The Art of War captures an artist’s struggle to convey what war feels like
- Antoni Cimolino looks ahead to his final season as artistic director of the Stratford Festival
- Stratford Festival review: The Winter’s Tale mixes comedy and tragedy to perfection
- Stratford Festival review: Macbeth on motorcycles an ambitious yet successful exercise in theatrical production
- Stratford Festival review: Forgiveness a haunting portrayal of refusing to pass on generational trauma
- Stratford Festival review: Sense and Sensibility a refreshed take on a literary classic with plenty of juicy gossip
- Stratford Festival review: Annie wows with talented kids and a cast to back them up
- Stratford Festival review: Anne of Green Gables brings the fandom on stage in hilarious production
- Stratford Festival review: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels offers plenty of dirty rotten fun
- Stratford Festival review: As You Like It dazzles with found fashion and a new spin on a recycled story
2024 Season
- Stratford Festival review: Director-choreographer Donna Feore does it again with Something Rotten!
- Stratford Festival review: Salesman in China offers a rich exploration of culture clash and mutual understanding
- Stratford Festival review: Wendy and Peter Pan offers emotional alternative to a classic
- Stratford Festival review: The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? challenges an audience’s tolerance
- Stratford Festival review: Get That Hope offers a familiar family story with new context
- Stratford Festival review: London Assurance serves up cartoonish hilarity
- Stratford Festival review: Romeo and Juliet delivers teen angst and rash decision making
- Stratford Festival review: La Cage Aux Folles offers glitz and glamour underpinned by a heartfelt story about family
- Stratford Festival review: ‘60s counterculture gives new context in McKenna’s Twelfth Night
- Stratford Festival Review: Rarely produced Cymbeline brought to life on Tom Patterson Theatre stage
- Stratford Festival review: The Diviners weaves past and present into a story about storytelling
- Stratford Festival review: Hedda Gabler offers a disturbing look inside the mind of an unfulfilled woman
Toronto Fringe Festival, Toronto, ON
2026 Season
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