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  • E24: Understanding Understudies | Everyday Forum Podcast

    What happens when the spotlight suddenly shifts, and someone must step in at a moment’s notice? In this episode, stage manager Maxwell T. Wilson (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), swing and co-dance captain Anthony MacPherson, and assistant director/casting associate Aaron Jan (The Winter’s Tale) join mo...

  • E23: Composers and Sound Designers for the Stage| Everyday Forum Podcast

    How does sound shape the way we experience a story on stage? In this episode, sound designer Debashis Sinha (Anne of Green Gables) and composer/sound designer Verne Good (Twelfth Night, 2024) join Associate Forum Coordinator James Hyett for an illuminating conversation about the artistry behind t...

  • 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer

    This short documentary profiles Canadian actor Christopher Plummer of the Stratford Festival, best known as The Sound of Music's Captain von Trapp. In his dressing room, Plummer dons his make-up and prepares to enter stage as Cyrano de Bergerac.

  • E22: Our Fascination with the Morally Corrupt | Everyday Forum Podcast

    Why are audiences so captivated by characters who blur (or outright cross) the moral line? In this episode, theatre critic Chris Jones is joined by veteran Festival actors Tom McCamus and Jonathan Goad for a thought-provoking conversation about what makes a compelling villain. Drawing on their ro...

  • everything i wanted to tell you

    'everything i wanted to tell you' is an experimental interactive dance film exploring the world of the multiple Dora Award winning theatrical production of the same name. Choreographed by Jessie Garon and developed in collaboration with filmmaker and co-director Slone McGowan, this experience put...

  • E21: Re-Imagining Shakespeare with Stephen Marche| Everyday Forum Podcast

    We kick off the 2025 season of the Everyday Forum Podcast with a lively chat with cultural commentator Stephen Marche. He talks with the Festival's Artistic Director, Antoni Cimolino, and André Sills, actor and assistant director of Macbeth, about reimagining Shakespeare’s plays for the stage.

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  • As You Like It (1983)

    Movie

    Conflict, disguise, laughter and romantic entanglements—what more could you want from one of Shakespeare's finest pastoral comedies? Voyage from Victorian England to the fantastical Forest of Arden, where laughter, love and friendship await in this archival production featuring Andrew Gillies as ...

  • The Madness of King Richard

    Madness Of King Richard is a one-hour powerful profile of Richard Monette that goes behind closed doors of a true artist - a performer, a director and a producer that is provocative, controversial and very outspoken. His colourful career has won him acclaim, severe criticism, and the Order of Can...

  • Private Flowers

    Movie

    In 1832, a Canadian infantryman at Fort York was hanged for making love with another man. The victim's rank was Private and his name was Flowers. Private Flowers is a dance film that explores a dark chapter of Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ history.

    Directed + Devised by mixed media artist HAUI featuring cho...

  • Just a Friend

    Movie

    Sometimes the hardest part of coming out is not knowing how your loved ones will react. Just a Friend is a story of courage, self-discovery, and the bond between mother and daughter proving that when it comes to family, love is love and fear is forgettable.

    Awards:

    Toronto Shorts Film Festival...

  • CHOREO: The Art of Dance

    Movie

    “CHOREO: The Art of Dance” introduces young dancers who use movement as a powerful form of artistic expression, blending their skills and creativity to convey messages that go beyond the expected. For these performers, dance is not just an outlet but a pathway to finding their voices, often shape...

  • Desync

    Movie

    Ana, a young Filipina filmmaker, shoots a re-enactment of a fight she once had with her mother - a fight brought on by mutual refusals to communicate. Spurred on by the obsessive need for perfection, Ana “fixes” the fight by rewriting every veiled insult into a chance for forgiveness. As her perf...

  • Arrivance: A Journey of Resilience

    3 items

    What if you leave your life behind, and starting over becomes everything?
    “Arrivance: A Journey of Resilience” is a short documentary series that showcases the experiences of immigrant professionals and how they use music as a tool of resilience to overcome all their obstacles in their new life ...

  • The Understudy

    Movie

    The Understudy is a peek-behind-the-curtain story of the theatre world. An understudy actor (Tom Rooney) is called upon last-minute to replace the star of a major stage production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. He is also looking after his young granddaughter (Mia Swaminathan), and has no choice b...

  • The Scottish Play

    Movie

    In 1986 a British amateur Theatre group staged a production of Macbeth that was so disastrous it made international headlines. Forty years later a film-maker tries to figure out what really happened.

    Official Selection:
    BFI London Film Festival 2023
    London Short Film Festival 2023
    British Short...

  • Crow's Theatre's Ghost Quartet

    Movie

    A haunted song cycle about love, death and whisky, Crow’s Theatre’s smash-hit of Dave Malloy’s GHOST QUARTET returns for a special digital Halloween engagement. Four friends drink, tell stories and span seven centuries in this surreal, chamber musical of murder ballads, doo-wop, jazz noise and a ...

  • Wedding Band
    Movie + 3 extras

    Wedding Band

    Movie + 3 extras

    From the Stratford Festival's 2023 season, Alice Childress's powerful play Wedding Band, an emotional and revealing portrayal of interracial love, set in South Carolina in the shadow of the First World War and the 1918 flu epidemic. As Julia, a Black seamstress, and Herman, a white baker, face th...

  • Catalyst Theatre's The Invisible

    Movie

    France. 1940. After months of training and successful missions, The Invisible are sent on one of their most dangerous missions to date. Seven exceptional female operatives risk their lives to fight a dangerous war of sabotage, propaganda and espionage — breaking with decorum and defying expectati...

  • Never Doubt I Love

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    Performing through words and music inspired by Shakespeare, six characters set forth to put on a successful season of theatre. With plenty of love, heartbreak, and drama along the way, this musical series set at a regional theatre is unlike any other original series produced by the Stratford Fest...

  • Everyday Forum Podcast

    1 season

    A podcast highlighting the best of thought-provoking events with celebrated guest speakers recorded live from the Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum. Each episode expands on popular narrative themes in theatre to magnify and examine how the staging of a play or musical, regardless of its origin o...

  • Cymbeline
    Movie + 1 extra

    Cymbeline

    Movie + 1 extra

    The Stratford Festival’s latest production of Cymbeline – one of the hits of the 2024 season. The play fuses romance, comedy and tragedy to create a unique fantasia brimming with mistaken identities and gender-swapping disguises. Cymbeline’s daughter, Innogen, one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated...

  • Waiting for the Parade (1984)

    Movie + 1 extra

    Adapted for the screen by John Murrell from his acclaimed stage play of the same name, Waiting for the Parade tells the story of five Calgary women who respond very differently to civilian life during World War II, providing a portrait of Canadian society in the 40s through courage, humour and a ...