Our resident culture conversationalist Ryan Patrick Hooper takes a trip across the border to Stratford, Ontario.

STRATFORD, Ontario — Settling in my seat for “Annie” at the Stratford Festival of Canada, I awaited with perennial pleasure the overture’s trumpet solo for “Tomorrow,” followed by the chirpy sounds of ...

What a joy it is to see “Something Rotten” transformed into something terrific. The caffeinated comedy, which played New York back in 2015, is the marquee musical of the Stratford Festival in Ontario, ...

When I arrived at the Stratford Festival in Ontario this year, there was snow on the ground and wreaths on the doors. In ...

STRATFORD, ONTARIO — The star-crossed lovers typically pull focus in “Romeo and Juliet.” But in director Sam White’s simple if atypically violent new production this summer at the Stratford Festival ...

At the Stratford and the Shaw theater festivals, four heated classics get cool new productions for summer. By Jesse Green STRATFORD, Ontario — “All’s Well That Ends Well” is one of Shakespeare’s least ...

As theater companies around the nation struggle to reach a post-pandemic recovery, Sam White remains optimistic. For one thing, she has managed to keep Shakespeare in Detroit, the nonprofit troupe she ...

STRATFORD, ONTARIO — We like to think Tyrone Guthrie is one of us. If he were alive today, we imagine he’d be holding court at Meritage every week and programming halftime shows for the Lynx. But the ...

As heavenly as the return to strength of Canada’s Stratford Festival feels, hell is very much a thing in the Ontario farmland this year. And I speak neither of the delay to cross the Blue Water Bridge ...

The Stratford branch of the Royal Canadian Legion is once again getting set for its Remembrance Day ceremony. While the ...