Llyandra Jones performs a scene from The Bear at the Ontario Trillium Foundation grant announcement last Friday. Alternative Theatre Works is presenting the play at Factory163 September through October utilizing lighting equipment purchased through the grant. The local performing arts community got a boost Friday when a $36,000 Ontario Trillium Grant was announced. The grant, […]
Alternative Theatre Works, a professional theatre co-op based in Stratford, will directly benefit from “Setting the Scene” as students design and construct complete staging for Alternative Theatre Works upcoming fall productions of 3 Plays After by celebrated Irish playwright, Brian Friel. “Alternative Theatre Works is thrilled to be the beneficiary of the Off The Wall […]
There’s no mistaking Peggy Coffey’s enthusiasm for the ground breaking project that Alternative Theatre Works has scheduled at Factory 163. The Stratford actor, director and producer is pulling together a trio of plays based on the works of Anton Chekhov that the Irish playwright Brian Friel crafted and packaged back in 2001 as “Three Plays […]
The floor was rockin’ and the lounge was groovin’ at PROPSTOCK. Off The Wall organizers are very pleased with this, our second annual summer solstice fundraising event. It was a great party with Hippie Van photo ops thanks to Kevin Kemp, a Hookah Lounge sponsored by Smoke Stack, a projection of the original Woodstock documentary on […]
Victoria Lewis is pleased to present “North and Beyond: Exploring Common Ground,” an exhibition of her recent paintings at Factory163 on Friday, June 8, 4-8 p.m., and Saturday, June 9, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is Lewis’s second solo exhibition at the Corner Gallery on the ground floor of Factory163. Lewis was the first […]
Rick Orr, of Orr Insurance, at his desk. Orr Insurance, at the corner of Waterloo and Coburg Streets, was one of the stops on this past weekend’s Doors Open tour. Stratford, one the best-kept heritage districts in Ontario, preserves many of its buildings by creating new uses for old spaces. On Saturday, 18 of these […]
In just two years SpringWorks has started to make a name for itself on the fringe festival circuit. Producer Eileen Smith couldn’t be more pleased as performers from this year’s festival enquired about coming back next year. “We as a festival want to be a venue, a vehicle for artists of calibre. We need to […]
After delivering her first child, Alison Wearing felt her only choices were to go on medication or go to Mexico. She chose Mexico. Wearing had what most call postpartum depression but what she calls postpartum illumination, and it’s the subject of her one-woman show called “Giving into Light: A Journey Through Motherhood, (Near) Madness & […]
SpringWorks Festival is set to open Sunday, May 13 and run through Sunday, May 20. Join award winning playwrights, choreographers, musicians, performers, visual and media artists at Factory163. Hour long programming throughout the festival includes: new works, readings, state-of-the-art contemporary dance, world class cabaret, cross-cultural and children’s theatre. SpringWorks Festival 2012 opens on May 13 […]
Women in Networking Groups Soar (W. i.n.g.s.) held a meeting earlier this month and everyone is still filled with the great energy that comes from meeting with that fantastic group of women. At the November meeting, we revisited our original format of three minutes to tell who you are and what you do. Each person […]
