Jeff Lillico

Cast and Creative Teams Set for Stratford Festival 2025

Stratford Festival has its preparations for 2025 in full swing. The preliminary casting for the 11 productions of the coming season has been revealed! Learn more about the 2025 company, stars and shows and see how to purchase tickets.

New Adaptation of Margaret Laurence's THE DIVINERS Comes to Stratford Festival

A new adaptation of Margaret Laurence’s classic Canadian novel The Diviners comes to the Tom Patterson Theatre for its world première. Directed by Krista Jackson with Geneviève Pelletier and with text by Vern Thiessen and Yvette Nolan, this production offers a bold adaptation, epic in scope, spanning centuries of this land’s past.

SOMETHING ROTTEN! and LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Extended at Stratford Festival

The Stratford Festival has extended SOMETHING ROTTEN! and LA CAGE AUX FOLLES due to popular demand. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Review: The Stratford Festival's SOMETHING ROTTEN Has Something for Everyone

When it was announced last fall that the Stratford Festival would be mounting a production of SOMETHING ROTTEN with Director/Choreographer Donna Feore at the helm, it immediately made perfect sense. A show set in Elizabethan times that sends up Shakespeare and Musicals alike, with the Bard himself as a character – is instantly made funnier and more meta when it takes place on the Festival Theatre stage. This stellar cast fires on all cylinders in a show that simultaneously celebrates and pokes fun at the performances audiences have come to know and love on this very stage.

SOMETHING ROTTEN! Kicks Off Stratford's 2024 Season

This year at the Stratford Festival, it's hard to be the Bard! The Stratford Festival begins its 2024 season with Something Rotten! directed and choreographed by Donna Feore led by Starr Domingue, Henry Firmston, Jeff Lillico and Mark Uhre. 

Stratford Festival Unveils 2024 Casts and Creative Teams

Get all the latest updates on the highly anticipated 2024 season at the Stratford Festival. Find out which talented actors have been cast in which productions, and get ready to experience the magic of live theater at one of the world's most renowned festivals.

Canadian Stage and Obsidian Theatre Present the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner  for Drama FAIRVIEW

After its stunning sell-out NYC debut, Canadian Stage and Obsidian Theatre will mount the first Canadian production of Jackie Sibblies Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama FAIRVIEW, on stage at the Berkeley Street Theatre March 4 – 26, 2023. (Media night: March 9)

Crow's Theatre Presents RED VELVET Directed By Cherissa Richards

Crow's Theatre presents the Toronto premiere of Lolita Chakrabarti's multi-award-winning play, RED VELVET, directed by Crow's Theatre 2021 RBC Rising Star Emerging Director Prize recipient, Cherissa Richards, November 22 to December 18, 2002 in the Guloien Theatre.

Nominations Announced for 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards; Nominees Include CURSED CHILD, & JULIET, & IS GOD IS & More.

At a press conference held at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 235 nominations for the 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, which recognize excellence in professional theatre, dance and opera in Toronto.

Crow's Theatre Announces 2022-23 Season

Today, Crow's Theatre Artistic Director Chris Abraham and Executive Director Sherrie Johnson unveiled a 12-show season that spans the classics, contemporary work, CanLit adaptations, musical theatre, dance, and music.

Talk is Free Theatre to Stage SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET

Talk Is Free Theatre Producer and CEO Arkady Spivak announced that their highly anticipated production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” will be arriving in Toronto this June.

TIFT Upcoming Winter Programming Explores Deep Societal Differences And Sparks Vital Conversations

Today, TIFT Artistic Director Michael Torontow and CEO Arkady Spivak announced details of the company's upcoming Winter Season of eclectic in-person, online and hybrid theatrical experiences. The winter programming invites audiences to engage with fresh perspectives on a variety of divisive subjects faced today.   

DINNER A LA ART With Eric McCormack, Len Cariou, Chilina Kennedy and More to be Rebroadcast

Building on the successful Dinner à la Art project launched earlier this month, TIFT Artistic Producer Arkady Spivak announced today exclusive online readings starring iconic international artists including Eric McCormack, Len Cariou, Chilina Kennedy, Ed Asner, Colin Mochrie, Cynthia Dale, Gavin Crawford, Daren A. Herbert and more.

BRIGHT LIGHTS Written and Directed by Kat Sandler to Stream in April

Streaming online to screens around the globe for one-night-only on April 10, 2021 is the razor-sharp farce Bright Lights, written and directed by Dora Award winner Kat Sandler. Performed by celebrated Canadian artists, this exclusive reading is part of Dinner à la Art, a new project from TIFT.

New Musical UNRAVELLED Debuts At Toronto Fringe

Three of the greatest love stories of all time, intertwined and reimagined in a new musical by "ECHOES" writer, Andrew Seok.

Toronto Fringe Festival 2019 Announces Lineup

THE TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL returns this summer with an extensive line-up of productions by award-winning artists, the popular POSTSCRIPT pop-up patio, and for the first time, will venture to the East End with 16 shows presented at main venue Streetcar Crowsnest. The TORONTO FRINGE takes place July 3 July 14, 2019 with 151 shows at 46 venues presented across the city, and all venues are fully accessible.

Factory Adds Five More Performances To Kat Sandler's BANG BANG

Factory Theatre is excited to announce an extension to the run of Kat Sandler's newest hit play, BANG BANG, currently enjoying rave reviews from audiences and media alike! Five additional performances have been added from February 20-24, 2018 due to overwhelming demand.

Factory Presents The World Premiere Of Kat Sandler's BANG BANG

Factory Theatre is proud to present BANG BANG, a Factory commissioned world premiere from Dora Award-winning playwright Kat Sandler (Mustard), January 27 February 18, 2018.

Photo Coverage: Casts of KINKY BOOTS, BEAUTIFUL & More Sing Out at Broadway in Bryant Park!

The best of Broadway will perform for FREE on six consecutive Thursdays this summer with '106.7 LITE FM's Broadway in Bryant Park 2017' - a lunchtime series on the Bryant Park Stage. Hosted by LITE FM's on-air personalities, the 17th annual presentation of open-air, On- and Off- Broadway lunch hour performances will run through Thursday, August 10.

Photo Coverage: Meet the Company of SOULPEPPER ON 42ND STREET!

Tickets are on sale for the US debut for SOULPEPPER, Toronto's largest and most celebrated theatre company, in a four-week engagement Off-Broadway at The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street in New York City.