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It was a memorable weekend for thousands who made their way to Goderich to get acquainted (or, in the case of many, reacquainted) with one of only two Lancaster bombers left in the world that can still fly.
The film BlackBerry didn't just win big at the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards (CSA) - it won the biggest. With 14 wins, including Best Picture and Best Direction, BlackBerry is now the most awarded film in CSA history.
This fall, Blyth-based Renaissance man Duncan McGregor will be bringing Andy Sparling and James White's ambitious new play The Streamliners to The Livery Theatre.
Whitechurch's own Revel Beck may be coming to the end of her stint as a third grader, but she's not about to spend her summer slacking off.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has, over time, also been known as the Fugitive Slave Chapel, has been awarded twice more this year, thanks, in part, to the work of Blyth-based architect John Rutledge.
The second annual Huron County Pride Festival in Goderich on Saturday was a huge success. An impressive number of people came out to celebrate the inclusiveness of which Huron County is capable.
For its sixth and final chapter, The Kingsbridge Chronicles has fittingly decided to close the ring with Where Do We Go From Here? - which tells the tale of the Kingsbridge Centre itself...
Blyth Broomball is lucky to have not one, but two regional award winners in its midst after the recent Central West Ontario Broomball Association awards.
Just over a month ago, Herman and Marlene Mooy of Blyth were in Holland and they brought a piece of Canada with them to be part of the Dutch Liberation Day ceremony in Harderwijk, a city about 70 kilometres east of Amsterdam.
Eighteen-year-old Alyssa Albers is currently packing her bags for a trip to Prague, where she will be joined by 10,000 other dancers from over 50 countries to take part in the Dance World Cup (DWC).
Gabby Yu may not be the most outspoken 10-year-old in her fifth-grade class. Her diminutive voice certainly can't compete with all the commotion coming from the bustling kitchen of her parents' busy restaurant on Josephine Street.
Weeks before any of the actors arrive in Blyth to begin rehearsals, a variety of skilled designers have already been coming and going, armed only with copies of the script and notes from the director
For her first season at the Blyth Festival, Amanda Wong will be bringing her compassionate approach to costuming and eye for sustainable design to town.
Alison Lawrence is an accomplished actor and playwright with an impressive body of work, but she had her work cut out for her writing Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz: The Farmerettes as a joint production by the Peterborough area's 4th Line Theatre and...
Severn Thompson, who should be no stranger to Blyth Festival audiences, has had her hands full this past year. As a result, this season is a big one for her - full of professional and creative fulfillment.
Charlotte Dennis will be making her Blyth Festival debut and yet, she has some familial history with the place.
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.