What do you suppose would happen if two Indigenous dudes decided to dig up the bones of Sir John A. Macdonald, and hold them ransom until the Canadian government returned something that had been stolen decades ago?You'll have to see Drew...

We’re back! And we’ve got the scoop on everything you’ll want to see this summer at Canada’s theatre - the Blyth Festival.Podcast fave and Blyth Fest Artistic Director Gil Garratt is here with his best stories about all five shows in thi...

We all know about Rosie the Riveter and the women who kept our factories afloat during WWII. But did you know thousands of young women (some as young as 16)  took to our fields and farms as well? These girls kept the country (and the troop...

Rural Ontario isn't exactly known as a hotbed of paranormal activity. But it turns out Canada's last official charge of witchcraft was laid right here in Huron County. In 1919.Yes, you read that correctly. A Canadian woman was charged wi...

Fifty years ago this summer, an actor, a playwright and a newspaper editor walked into a bar .... OK, kidding, it wasn't a bar. But James Roy, Anne Chislett and Keith Roulston DID sit down in Keith's living room and decide to start ...

In the long, hot summer of 1972, a group of barefoot Toronto actors made their way to an abandoned farm house in Clinton, Ontario. There they began a theatrical experiment that would result in a collective creation known as The Farm Show.

Need help choosing what to see at Blyth this summer? We've got you covered!Playwright, actor, and avid Huron-County historian Kelly McIntosh walks us through all six shows on Blyth's 2024 playbill in this episode. Kelly has appeared on ...

Have you ever thought A Christmas Carol is just a bit … quaint? Old fashioned? A nice period piece,  but without much relevance to the modern world?Well, buckle up. The Blyth Festival’s Huron County Christmas Carol drops th...

Actor Andrew Moodie burst onto the scene as a playwright in 1995 with Riot, an exploration of the 1992 Yonge Street Riot that followed the Rodney King uprisings in LA. Since then, Andrew has written many more  plays bringing Black...

Part two of our in-depth conversation with Blyth Festival Artistic Director Gil Garratt about his revival of James Reaney’s landmark Donnelly trilogy.Today Gil tells us about the design and staging of his new productions, and abo...

In the wee small hours of February 4, 1880, an angry mob descended on a farmstead in Lucan.  An hour later, five people were dead, and the farmhouse was in flames. This shocking piece of Canadian history – known as the Donnelly...

Matt Murray started writing plays and musicals after a 20-year career as a musical-theatre performer – and he’s never looked back. His new comedy,  Chronicles of Sarnia, opened this summer at the Blyth Festival. Matt and host J...