The Real McCoy

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PHOTO OF PETER BAILEY BY TERRY MANZO by Andrew Moodie   Aug. 24-Sept. 9 Memorial Hall This play tells the biography of the inventor Elijah McCoy (1843-1929), whose name became a byword for quality, as in “the real McCoy.” The play tries to explain why we’ve all heard the expression and yet hardly any of us know why… And in answering ...

Chronicles of Sarnia

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PHOTO OF SEVERN THOMPSON BY TERRY MANZO by Matt Murray   August 3-18 The play follows Erin, a passionate, retired history teacher, who has convinced the City of Sarnia to create a 100-year time capsule for future generations to open. She organizes a town-wide meeting for community input, with a replica of the capsule itself, ready to momentously unveil. But in ...

The Waltz

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PHOTO OF ANTHONY PERPUSE AND ERIKA LEOBRERA BY DAHLIA KATZ. COSTUME DESIGN BY JACKIE CHAU by Marie Beath Badian.    July 12-July 29 The Waltz is a gentle romance about a young man on his way to University in BC, who stops for one fateful night under the Prairie stars, and meets a girl he will never forget.  Produced by Factory ...

Liars at a Funeral

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By Sophia Fabiilli   June 14-July 8   World Premiere The first show indoors is the premiere of Liars at a Funeral. This play was originally slated to open our 2020 season. Liars at a Funeral is the hilarious story of a grandmother who fakes her own death in a last-ditch hope to get her dysfunctional family in one room, but with ...

The Donnellys: A Trilogy

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PHOTO OF RACHEL JONES & RANDY HUGHSON BY TERRY MANZO by James Reaney, adapted and abridged by Gil Garratt. A Quintessential Canadian Classic Reimagined The Donnelly''s: A Trilogy If a performance is rained out at the Harvest Stage, the performance will be moved indoors to Memorial Hall. Sticks and Stones: Part I June 22- September 1 The saga begins.  James ...
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The Blyth Festival Rides Again in 2023 Bigger, Better, and Bolder than Ever

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For immediate release Blyth, ON After two defiant years undefeated by the global pandemic, the Blyth Festival is back bigger than ever. Celebrating their 48th anniversary season, the 2023 Blyth Festival is set to present its largest season ever with seven productions, both indoors and outdoors, running June 14th-September 9th.  Both Memorial Hall in the town centre and the newly …

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Blyth Festival Spotlights the Impact of $400,000 in Grants

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Blyth, ON – On Friday, local MPP Lisa Thompson met with representatives from the Blyth Centre for the Arts to congratulate them on the work done thanks to two grants, totalling $400,000, that it received through the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) in 2021. The organization received a $150,000 Resilient Communities Fund grant from OTF in March 2021 and a $250,000 …

Blyth Festival Announces Summer 2022 Season!

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Blyth, ON - The Blyth Festival returns once again to present its 2022 season outdoors on the beautiful new Harvest Stage. Four Canadian productions will run in succession from June to September. Gil Garratt says of the season, “I think theatre has never been more important, more vital. Looking around at the world right now, a lot of people are feeling ...

The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey

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Photo by Terry Manzo. Pictured Randy Hughson as Angus, Cam Laurie as Miles, Jonathan Goad as Morgan Essential Canadian Classic True story: Fifty years ago this very summer, a group of actors made a pilgrimage of sorts from downtown Toronto to Huron County. They were bent on learning all they could about farming and rural life and turning what they ...