Stratford Festival

“We rehearsed through rain, heat and strong winds”: How Stratford staged A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a covered parking lot

"One particularly powerful gust sent hundreds of pages of scripts flying, and the the entire company chased after them"

How Antoni Cimolino, Stratford’s artistic director, has turned this season’s festival into a Covid-proof outdoor affair

It wasn’t easy and it wasn’t cheap, but the show must go on

Colm Feore in conversation with Toronto Life editor Sarah Fulford

"I've decided to continue the work, believing that someday we will be able to do the show"

Q&A: Actor Colm Feore on the Stratford Festival’s Covid-induced shutdown

He was supposed to star in Richard III. Now, like every other actor in Canada, he’s at home wondering when he’ll ever work again

A symphony at City Hall, a Trump-mocking comedy show and eight other things to do to celebrate Canada 150

The picky patriot’s guide to 150 fever

A mega barbecue fest, the return of Orphan Black and eight other things to see, do, hear and read this week

What to do in Toronto during the week of June 5

The Ex, a Shawn Mendes show and eight other things to do this week

What to do in Toronto during the week of August 15

Ten unmissable cultural road trips within two hours of Toronto

Including a starlit movie screening in a vineyard and a play in a barn

Camp out on the Islands, see some buskers and seven other things to do this week

The Toronto Fringe, a Brian Wilson concert and six other things to do this week

Spotlight: theatrical virtuoso Daniel MacIvor exposes a bitterly funny slice of life in Was Spring

Christopher Plummer receives the inaugural Stratford Shakespeare Festival lifetime achievement award—for a lifetime of being awesome