Welcome to ShawFestReviews.

Five years ago we published Stratford Festival Reviews. The site has been a huge hit. So far this season it’s received 70,545 pageviews with a bounce rate of just 1.66% and an average visit duration of 4:10

I’ve launched this site not only to support the Shaw Festival but theatres everywhere.

Local The­atre

Every year more and more peo­ple like you visit this site. I get inspir­ing feed­back from peo­ple who attend the­atre, not just at Strat­ford and Shaw, but more impor­tantly in their home town.

For many, it’s the local the­atre that sparks their initial inter­est, and pro­vides a sup­port­ive environ­ment to help young peo­ple pur­sue their dreams.

I also get great feed­back from the the­atres and busi­ness that adver­tise on the sites, and I’m happy to help them build their busi­nesses as they sup­port mine (although in the inter­view you’ll learn that this site doesn’t make a profit).

Inci­den­tally, I teach jour­nal­ism at West­ern Uni­ver­sity, Canada. As much as pos­si­ble I try to share my pas­sion for the Arts and radio with my students.