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For the Blyth Festival's 50th anniversary, Shawn Kerwin will be designing the set for Beverley Cooper's The Trials of Maggie Pollock - the true story of a Huron County woman who, in 1919

The Trials of Maggie Pollock is a perfect fit for playwright Beverley Cooper, who has given the Blyth Festival some of its most successful and entertaining local history pieces of the last two decades.

Despite having a long, storied and award-winning career in worldwide theatre, Ann-Marie Kerr will be making her Blyth Festival debut this summer as the director of The Trials of Maggie Pollock.

While Birgitte Solem hasn't been part of the Blyth Festival company since 2017's The Pigeon King, she has a long and storied history with the Festival, which has, in part, led to the creation of this season's Resort to Murder.

One shudders to think of what malignancy of fate would bear a world that would even consider celebrating the Blyth Festival's 50th anniversary without Randy Hughson.

Blyth's 50th anniversary season is going to be bringing quite a few Festival favourites back to Blyth for a board-treading bonanza but, when it came to casting Sandy, the female lead in Mark Crawford's The Golden Anniversaries...

Alicia Salvador will be making her Blyth Festival debut this summer as a member of the cast of Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz: The Farmerettes. Notably, however, she will not be making her professional theatre debut here

A "two-hander", in the theatre world, is exactly what you'd think it is - a play that has only two main characters. Two-handers are all about the dynamic balance between the two actors who are carrying the story, and the audience along for the ride.

There's a plethora of reasons why the world premiere of The Golden Anniversaries already has so much buzz swirling around it, not the least of which is the fact that it was penned by playwright Mark Crawford.

The undeniable will of the universe may be bringing seasoned stage manager Ann Stuart out of retirement to manage the world premiere of Mark Crawford's The Golden Anniversaries...

It's a bit surprising that directing the world premiere of Gil Garratt's Saving Graceland will be the first time James MacDonald has worked at the Blyth Festival.

The Blyth Festival has told a lot of different stories over the past 50 years, each one of which has existed on the stage at Memorial Hall as its own little, self-contained universe.

Actor Caroline Gillis is pulling double duty in a major way for the Blyth Festival's 50th anniversary season. The versatile actor has graced the stage at Memorial Hall a number of times over the past two decades...

To paraphrase one of Canada's great singer-songwriters, J.D. Nicholsen's been everywhere, man. His theatrical career has brought him to the stage of theatres all over Canada

This summer, Goldie Garratt, the eight-year-old daughter of Artistic Director Gil Garratt, will make her Blyth Festival debut in Saving Graceland, a play written by her father.

Blyth Festival Artistic Director Gil Garratt will have his hands full this season. In addition to his year-round duties that are both artistic and directorialy, he will be directing The Farm Show: Then and Now...

While The Farm Show and the story of its creation has seeped into the blood of so many theatre fans in Huron County, it's almost refreshing to find an actor who hasn't grown up steeped in those stories.

The 2024 - and 50th anniversary - season of the Blyth Festival will mark a return of sorts for Fiona Mongillo, who spent many of her summers as a young person involved with the Blyth Festival two decades ago.

The Clinton Spring Fair has been unofficially kicking off Huron County's agricultural fair season for 170 years now, and it's safe to say it's mastered the art of bringing people together to celebrate everything that makes Clinton

Donors who contributed significantly to the "Inspiring Our Future" campaign received a sneak peek of the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre (BMGCC) to see the results of their munificence

This year's 2024 Canadian Screen Awards honoured Matt Johnson's film BlackBerry with nominations in a number of categories, and it ended up taking home the prize in 14 of them, including Best Picture.

It was just another night at Harley's. The only bar in town was packed to the exact maximum capacity allowed by law. Every single person there was all lit up with an identical anticipation...

This year, Clinton is holding its 170th Spring Fair, and its slogan, "Way More in 2024", already feels like a particularly perfect description of the concert that will be happening at the Eastlink  Arena on June 1.

Last week, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA), announced the Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for the 2023/2024 theatre season and Blyth Festival fans may recognize a number of names among the nominees.