We’re over the moon for Kat Sandler, who is an Artist of the Year in The Globe and Mail! 👏 Having adapted and directed Anne of Green Gables, "a standout" of our 2025 season, Kat has officially earned the title "kindred spirit of the year". #SFGreenGables #KatSandler #SF2025 #StratfordFestival

THE VEIL made @nextmagazine.bsky.social's top 10 picks of 2025! We are so glad that this show resonated with so many people, and we're thrilled to be featured alongside some of the best theatre of 2025! Tickets for The Veil at the Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum go on sale in January!

Is it any surprise that Anne of Green Gables made @nextmagazine.bsky.social's top 10 favourite plays of 2025? For details, read thread and full article! #SFGreenGables #SF2025 #CanadianTheatre

Two of our 2025 season shows, The Winter's Tale and Anne of Green Gables, made @thestar.com's top 10 of the year! 🎉 For details, read thread and full article! #SFWintersTale #SFGreenGables #SF2025 #StratfordFestival

Anne of Green Gables, Kat Sandler's adaptation that "breathes new-found relevance into this classic Canadian tale" (Toronto Star), has made The Globe and Mail's list of top 10 shows in 2025! What shows made your list of favourites in 2025? #SFGreenGables #SF2025 #StratfordFestival

A new two-week residency at the @stratfest.bsky.social in Ontario immerses #Dartmouth students in the full ecosystem of North America’s largest classical repertory theater company.

"Stratford and its namesake theater festival offer a bit of everything for the casual theater fan and the obsessives like me. I’m already counting down the days until I can go back." Read more about Hour Detroit Magazine's theatre trip to Stratford: https://ow.ly/P9zK50Xj2vS

Antoni Cimolino announces casting for the 12 productions set to take the stage in 2026, his final season as Artistic Director. Click here for details: www.stratfordfestival.ca/Media/NewsRe...

Time to hit the brakes!🚗 Before the day is over, we #AskAnArchivist one last thing: are there any automobiles in your collection? Many cars, buses and military vehicles (some 2D) have made appearances in past productions. Can you name the shows? #StratfordFestivalArchives

💃 We #AskAnArchivist: do you have any female firsts represented in your archives? Tanya Moiseiwitsch was our first designer and designed the Festival Theatre thrust stage in 1953 – quite the feat, considering the first female directors didn’t hit our stages until the 1970s.

We #AskAnArchivist: are there any Taylor Swift related items in your archives? You could say we're experts on 'the fate of Ophelia'. This doll carried by Adrienne Gould, Ophelia in 2008's Hamlet, starts off pristine, but like its owner, ends the play broken and drowned.

We're prepared for anything! 🧟 We #AskAnArchivist: what item in your archives will help you survive a zombie apocalypse? Prospero's staffs from The Tempest can be used as walking sticks and even weapons – they are also magical and can be used to control the weather.

Taking the world by storm! 🌏 We #AskAnArchivist to show us something from your collection in a foreign language. This poster hung in the lobby of the Mhat Theatre in Moscow when our production of King Lear, directed by David William and starring William Hutt, toured in 1972.

Lettuce entertain you! 🥬 We #AskAnArchivist: what is your best food-themed item? Feast your eyes on this costume made from plastic vegetables. Designed by Dany Lyne for the 2005 production of Into the Woods, Susan Gilmour wore it as The Witch. #StratfordFestivalArchives

Today is #AskAnArchivist day! Our team of archivists are ready to answer questions on their day-to-day job, what experience and education prepared them for their roles and about the archives collection itself. 🔍 Send us your questions!

Full of rough magic. ✨ Ahead of #AskAnArchivist Day on Thursday October 16, we've searched our archive collection for a unique object deserving of the spotlight. Behold, the cloak that Martha Henry wore as Prospero in our 2018 production of The Tempest.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁 May we all be as thankful as Little Orphan Annie, a truly perfect role model for this holiday. 📷 Harper Rae Asch with members of the company in Annie. Photography by David Hou.

Had fun today with these guys and the whole cast of "As You Like It" at @stratfest.bsky.social as I joined them for the finale It was an honour for me to be asked to write the music for Bill Shakespeare's lyrics RS

We have exciting news! Jonathan Church will be the next Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival.

"It's not just about finding kid-friendly shows, it's about introducing literacy, culture and critical thinking about the larger issues in life that they will one day confront, because 'All the world's a stage.'" Adam Waxman reflects on the importance of bringing children to the Stratford Festival.

Ready for a show to "smash the Bechdel test all to pieces"? 💪 Maev Beaty and Irene Poole spoke with @intermissionmag.bsky.social to discuss Ransacking Troy, Erin Shields's new "feminist reimagining of Homer’s epics, directed by Jackie Maxwell." www.intermissionmagazine.ca/features/ran... #SFTroy

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Graham Greene. Graham was a globally recognized film actor and an award-winning stage and television performer, who joined us here at the Stratford Festival for one unforgettable season, in 2007.

Did you know our musicals are performed by a live orchestra? Toronto Star arts critic Joshua Chong recently sat in on two performances of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Annie to see how musical magic is made behind the scenes! #SFAnnie #SFScoundrels

What better salve can there be than an old story with love at its core? ❤️‍🔥Sara Farb and Christopher Allen (who play Rosalind and Orlando respectively) spoke with Next Magazine about this season's As You Like It. #SFAsYouLikeIt

We're thrilled to be nominated for Attractions Ontario's 10th Annual Ontario’s Choice Awards! Vote for us to win the Top Performing Arts spot. You can vote once a day until September 7, 2025: attractionsontario.ca/poll/top-per... 📷 Photo by Ann Baggley.

Ransacking Troy opens at @stratfest.bsky.social next week! Here's my profile of playwright Erin Shields, for whom the future – and past – has always been female. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre...

✨ Announcing our 2026 season! ✨ The culmination of a 40-year career with the Festival, including 14 seasons as Artistic Director, this will be Antoni Cimolino's farewell season, with plays united under the theme of "This Rough Magic". The 2026 playbill across our four venues...

American friends, are you worried about how you’ll be received in Canada this summer? Fear not! As Jesse Green writes in the New York Times, our arms are wide open for you here in Stratford.

How's this for a boost, Canada? From the Chicago Tribune's chief theatre critic, Chris Jones: "Canadian theater, and Canadians in general, are doing better than their neighbors to the south at focusing on the core values that hold the nation together."

What could be more fun than Jane Austen? Toronto Star critic Joshua Chong was "impressed by Kate Hamill's ability to balance both humour and heart in her adaptation" of Sense and Sensibility. Read full article here: www.thestar.com/entertainmen... #SFSensibility

Canadian theatre has lost a giant, the much loved and admired actor and director Joe Ziegler.

How does an actor perform in three shows and keep all the roles straight? Jessica B. Hill tells CBC's Q with Tom Power "it's an actor's gym." Watch the full interview below!

It is with deep sadness that we mark the passing of actor Michael Blake, our dear friend and much valued colleague. Michael was one of the most gifted actors of his generation. He played an extraordinary variety of parts and did so with an ability and ease that was rare.

This is not Graham Abbey's first foray into The Winter's Tale — he first performed as Florizel in the Festival's 1998 production and directed two other productions. This season, he is portraying the central figure of Leontes. Read more in this interview: ow.ly/vUeX50Wl7aG #SFWintersTale

“I was very, very nervous because I’d never done prose before in Shakespeare.” Sara Farb, now in her 7th season with the Festival, has much to say about preparing for the pivotal role of Rosalind in As You Like It, Shakespeare's beloved comedy. Read the full interview below! #SFAsYouLikeIt

✨ Calling all kindred spirits! ✨ Check out the Kindred Spirits Book Club podcast for an exclusive interview with Caroline Toal, who stars in Kat Sandler's new Anne of Green Gables adaptation in her very first season with the Festival: ow.ly/9xz550WqSFt

📢 BIG NEWS: our 2025 season is extended, and just in time for the BIGGEST SALE OF THE YEAR! 🎉 The Globe and Mail were "gobsmacked by the strength of this year’s opening week", and with overwhelming audience demand, we're thrilled to be extending four productions into the winter months.

Stratford is "like a slice of Europe" and is definitely worth a visit this summer! Besides coming to see a show at the Festival, there's plenty to do in our hometown while you're here. www.narcity.com/stratford-on...

Looking forward to seeing @hirokanagawatv.bsky.social’s adaptation of Mark Sakamoto's Canada Reads-winning memoir FORGIVENESS @stratfest.bsky.social I talked to Kanagawa & director @staffordarima.bsky.social for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Christine Baranski: “I think I’m an actress because when I was in high school, we took a train up to the Stratford Festival and I was just hit with an arrow in the heart." Read more on how a trip to Stratford Festival sparked her love of theatre and acting: www.ellecanada.com/culture/cele...

"This is a play that survives time. It's really easy to find Macbeths around." Listen to Q with Tom Power for an exclusive interview with Director Robert Lepage on resetting Macbeth during the biker wars of the 1990s: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #SFMacbeth

Great opening night for Macbeth @stratfest.bsky.social Phenomenal staging. Mind-blowing.

The red carpet is rolled out... We're getting ready for our big 2025 season opening tonight! As You Like It kicks us off with a black-tie event not to be missed at the Festival Theatre. Will we see you there? #SF2025 #StratfordFestival #Stratfest

🗞️ Also in today's Toronto Star: Hear from Costume Designer Michael Gianfrancesco on the costumes needed to transplant the Scottish play into the 1990s biker wars in Quebec. #SFMacbeth #StratfordFestival #SF2025 #Stratfest

In today’s Toronto Star! Hear from actors Tom McCamus, Lucy Peacock, Graham Abbey, Tom Rooney and André Sills about working with Director Robert Lepage to fulfill his vision for Shakespeare’s most haunting tragedy. #SFMacbeth #StratfordFestival #SF2025 #Stratfest

The flag is at half-staff as we remember theatre great Charles Strouse, who died yesterday at age 96 after a truly remarkable career. A three-time Tony Award-winner, Strouse wrote the score for Annie, on stage at the Festival this season. Strouse was also the winner of both Emmy and Grammy awards.

Director-Playwright Kat Sandler discusses adapting Anne of Green Gables for today, while also keeping the spirit of the classic Canadian novel by L.M. Montgomery. Listen on the Kindred Spirits Book Club podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/345F... #SFGreenGables #SF2025 #StratfordFestival #Stratfest

This painting is Lepage's Macbeth Thank you so much Robert Lepage for meeting me at the gallery See this painting through the summer at Agora Gallery, Stratford and see the play at the Stratford Festival 🙂 And a big thank you to the wonderful costume designer, Michael Gianfrancesco 🙂

Queen's University alumni are making their mark at the Stratford Festival, with at least 15 graduates currently working behind the scenes and on stage. Discover how they’re setting the stage this season!

Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino's beautiful production of The Winter's Tale starts performances today! Tickets and production credits: www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/Play... #SFWintersTale #StratfordFestival #SF2025 #Stratfest