The Foster Festival
5 Race Street L2R 3M1 Saint Catharines, ON, Canada

Chick Reid & Tom McCamus perform their online reading on Fri, Dec 11 & Sun, Dec 13 Tickets for Norm Foster's The Christmas Tree can be purchased here: https://fosterfestival.com/ ARTIST SPOTLIGHT... Chick is a long-standing Canadian theatre professional working in the worlds of theatre (predominantly) and film & tv. 2020 marked Chick’s 7th season at the Shaw Festival and she spent 13 seasons at Stratford Festival. In 2018 she was honoured with the CAEA’s Life Membership award for contribution to performing arts in Canada. 2020 marked Tom's 11th season at the Shaw Festival. He also performed for 16 seasons with the Stratford Festival. Recent film and TV work include Room and Orphan Black. Tom has won a Genie award for best actor in I Love a Man in Uniform and Gemini and Actra awards for best actor in The Wayne Gretzky Story. The Christmas Tree reading series runs December 4 - 19. Directed by Marcia Kash. TICKETS: https://fosterfestival.com/ #thechristmastree #normfoster #FosterFestival #ourhomestc

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COVID-19 Safety Precautions Update for our Christmas Tree reading series.

THE CHRISTMAS TREE OPENS TOMORROW! GOOD NEWS! A few more tickets have opened up for our LIVE reading on December 4th at the Performing Arts Centre! Don't miss it, get your tickets here: https://fosterfestival.com//firstontario-performing-arts-/... We are so excited to be offering Norm Foster’s one-act play, The Christmas Tree, LIVE, in the Algoma Lobby at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre Friday, December 4, 2020, at 7:30 pm featuring Shaw Festival Veteran Actors, Marla McLean and Graeme Somerville, directed by Marcia Kash. We are also offering 11 readings online and are still accepting dinner orders for the remaining dates. Get your ticket(s) to watch an online reading performed by the Artist Couple of your choice. You may even want to choose more than one! fosterfestival.com

The Christmas Tree opens tomorrow, December 4. Get your tickets and enjoy our trademark Humour with Heart this holiday season! https://fosterfestival.com/shop/ #Christmastree #normfoster... #ourhomesstc #FosterFestival See more

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ONLY 2 TABLES LEFT! Stephanie Jones & Jason Cadieux perform their reading at The Office Tap & Grill on Sat, Dec 12 @ 7:30pm. Dinner is at 6pm. Tickets for Norm Foster's The Christmas Tree can be purchased here: https://fosterfestival.com/... ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Stephanie Jones splits her time between the Niagara Region of Canada, Toronto and New York. She is an acclaimed actor, playwright, Artistic Director and theatre educator. She is the founding Artistic Director of The Essential Collective Theatre (Artistic Director Emerita, ECT): a Niagara based theatre company committed to the creation and production of new Canadian work. In 2010, she was presented with the YWCA’s Women of Distinction award and received the 2014 St. Catharines Established Artist Award. Jason Cadieux has spent the last two seasons with the Shaw Festival. Credits for the Shaw: Man and Superman, Cyrano de Bergerac. Other selected theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lear, Twelfth Night, Dream in High Park/Canadian Stage; Jerusalem, Company Theatre/Outside the March; The Wedding Party, Crow’s Theatre/Talk Is Free Theatre; Love and Information, Canadian Stage; Hosanna, Soulpepper; and Antigonick, Guilty by Association/Suitcase in Point Theatre Company/SummerWorks. THANK YOU to Debbie Slade & Tom Arkell for being our Artist Couple Patrons for this reading performance. The Christmas Tree reading series runs December 4 - 19. Directed by Marcia Kash. TICKETS: https://fosterfestival.com/ #thechristmastree #normfoster #FosterFestival #ourhomestc

ONLY 4 TABLES LEFT! Get your tickets for Norm Foster's The Christmas Tree before they are gone. https://fosterfestival.com/ 22 Artists. 12 Readings. 1 Script. Endless Laughs. ARTIST SPOTLIGHT... We are thrilled to welcome Nicole Joy-Fraser and Jason Chesworth to The Foster Festival stage! Nicole & Jason perform their reading of The Christmas Tree on Fri, Dec 11 @ 7:30pm at The Grantham House. Nicole Joy-Fraser is an award-winning Performing Artist who has been storytelling for the stage and screen for over 20 years. Her professional engagements have taken her across Turtle Island and beyond with her most recent being cast in the 2020 acting company at the Stratford Festival. Selected credits include Two Odyssey’s: Pimooteewin & Gállábártnit (Soundstreams/Signal Theatre), Quebexit (Telefilm), Baroness Von Sketch (CBC), The Welland Canal Play (Essential Collective Theatre), Ipperwash & Stag and Doe (Blyth Festival) and Mamma Mia! (Original North American Cast). Jason is a proud member of IATSE Local 461, and currently the Festival Stage deck electrician at the Shaw Festival (Brigadoon, Holiday Inn, Man & Superman and hopefully Gypsy and Devil’s Disciple). As an actor, Jason spent 5 seasons with the Shaw Festival. Selected Credits include Lord of the Flies, S.S. Tenacity, Six Characters In Search of an Author and You Can’t Take It With You. He also spent 5 seasons with the Blyth Festival performing in shows such as the hit show The Pigeon King and Stag & Doe. The Christmas Tree reading series runs Dec 4 - 19. Directed by Marcia Kash. TICKETS: https://fosterfestival.com/ THANK YOU Jennifer Wallace Insurance & Financial Solutions for being our Artist Couple Sponsor for this reading. #thechristmastree #normfoster #FosterFestival #ourhomestc

The Christmas Tree by Norm Foster Directed by Marcia Kash December 4 - 19 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT... This is Mary Long's and Sandy Crawley's first appearance at The Foster Festival. Welcome Mary and Sandy! Mary has trod the boards of Canadian and U.S. theatre stages for the last fifty years! Having played in Toronto, Winnipeg, Montreal, Halifax, Quebec City, Saskatoon, Calgary, Niagara on the Lake, Boston, New York she continues to please audiences wherever she goes. Most recently seen in Theatre Aquarius’ production of Renovations for Six, by Norm Foster, for which she was named best performer of the year! Sandy is a musician, actor, arts-activist, arts administrator and teacher. As an an actor and composer, his is known for his roles in The Hitchhiker (1983), The Silent Partner (1978) and Power Play (1978). Mary & Sandy perform their reading on Thur, Dec 10 @ 7:30pm at Coppola's Ristorante. Dinner will be served at 6pm. ONLY 1 TABLE LEFT! For more information about this series, visit https://fosterfestival.com/ THANK YOU C R Smith Financial Services Inc for being our Artist Couple Sponsor for this reading. #thechristmastree #normfoster #FosterFestival #ourhomesstc

The Christmas Tree by Norm Foster Directed by Marcia Kash December 4 - 19 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT... We are thrilled to be welcoming back Catherine McGregor and Jim Mezon to The Foster Festival! Many of you will remember Catherine as Iris Oulette in our 2017 World Premiere production of Norm Foster's Lunenburg. Jim spent 2 seasons with the Festival as director of our 2018 production of Foster's Greatest Hit, Wrong For Each Other and our 2019 production of Foster's Hilda's Yard in which Foster himself starred. Catherine & Jim are performing two readings together on Sunday, December 6 @ 2:00pm & 7:30pm at the Stone Mill Inn Ballroom with lunch & dinner being provided by Johnny Rocco's Italian Grill. Lunch will be served at 12:30pm and dinner at 6pm. For more information about this series, visit https://fosterfestival.com/ #thechristmastree #normfoster #FosterFestival #ourhomesstc