BLYTH, ON – Canadian author Lawrence Hill will highlight a unique series of events at Blyth Festival to celebrate 45 seasons of developing and producing plays that give a rich voice to both rural South Western Ontario and the entire country. The award-winning author of The Book of Negroes and The Illegal will speak from the theatre’s main stage about …

We’re waiting for the weather that’s forecast for today: Snow and ice pellets, turning to freezing ice, turning to rain. Again. Some days, the roads into Blyth have been near-impassable with visibility at an all-time low due to winds that indiscriminately whip the snow across farmers’ fields and roadways. There are times when the only traffic seems to be the …

Blyth Festival’s Artistic Director, Gil Garratt, sat down with Peter Maranger of What’s Up Stratford to talk about The Pigeon King’s flight to the National Arts Centre and the 2019 Season recently. Listen to the interview here.

BLYTH – The creators of The Pigeon King, which premiered here in 2017 with a remount in 2018, gathered in Huron County to record a soundtrack of the original music that has only been heard previously on the Blyth Festival stage. The Citizen editor Shawn Loughlin dropped by the snap some photos and chat with the creators, who will next …

As 2018 turned to 2019, Blyth artist Kelly Stevenson began sharing her newest creations with the world: posters for the Blyth Festival’s five main stage shows for this upcoming season, wrote Shawn Loughlin, in an article posted on The Citizen’s website this week. “Stevenson, a young artist who lives just a few doors down from Memorial Hall itself, was tapped …

It’s a quiet week in Blyth: Those holiday hangover days when most of the shops on the downtown snow-covered strip are closed down while owners and staff recover from a few busy weeks of commerce. In this lull, which is still six months away from the opening of our 45th Season of professional summer theatre, our staff of five inevitably …

As the Blyth Festival production The Pigeon King prepares to take to the stage at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the festival has been allocated its usual $15,000 by the Township of North Huron as part of a cooperative marketing strategy, wrote reporter Adam Bell, in an article posted by Blackburn News this week. Council voted unanimously Monday night …

Local One host Shaunessy Sinnett speaks with Blyth Festival Artistic Director Gil Garratt about the 45th season. (Click on full screen to display.)

The goal of the Blyth Festival has always been to reflect the character of the community. And that hasn’t changed, writes Bob Montgomery, of Blackburn Radio, in an article posted online today. Artistic Director Gil Garratt said next year will mark the 45th year for the Blyth Festival. “We had an incredible season this year,” said Garratt. “We had 8,000 …

BLYTH, ON – The 2019 Season of the Blyth Festival promises to be even more successful than this past season, which saw more than 26,000 visitors come to see five mainstage productions. “This will be a season on an epic scale, a season of triumphs, trials, tolerance, team work…and…tusks,” said Blyth Festival Artistic Director Gil Garratt, announcing the 2019 Season …