Ontario Off Stage

Port Stanley Festival Theatre from Ontario Summer Theatre
Buying the Farm
Shannon McCracken, Jeff Culbert, Matthew Gorman
Photo by Phil Bell, Shutter Studios

by Brandon Moore, Community Theatre and Communications Manager

Conversation Starters

• Ontario Summer Theatre profiles featuring Port Stanley Festival Theatre (“Celebrating 40 years”), Upper Canada Playhouse in Morrisburg (“It’s a Happy 35th Anniversary”), Stone Fence Theatre in the Ottawa Valley ("I Come from the Valley! Tales and Times of Joan Finnigan") and Thousand Islands Playhouse in Gananoque (“Canada’s Dockside Theatre”).

Behind the Scenes at Ontario’s Theatres

• Next week marks a busy week of Ontario Fringe Festival openings—both the Hamilton Fringe and the Windsor-Walkerville Fringe both open on July 19, and then Kingston’s Storefront Fringe Festival opens on July 20.
• Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto announced their 18/19 season.

In Case You Missed It

• ONstage Openings this week in Thunder Bay, Port Perry, Cambridge, Grand Bend, Toronto, Port Hope, Haliburton, Ottawa, and on tour.
• Browsing Our Bulletin Board, including intensive courses, workshops, and more.