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

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 ...

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 ...

The Stratford Festival in Ontario opened a glamorous new theater last month that prioritizes the theater itself, not just what surrounds it. By Jesse Green Jesse Green, the chief theater critic for ...

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 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 ...