Buy Tickets 2024
Welcome Foster Friends!
Welcome to The Norm Foster Theatre Festival’s Ticketing Page. Below you will find more details about our shows and ticket information.
Advertised ticket pricing is all-inclusive pricing.
2024 Regular Subscriptions
Pick 3 $144
Pick 2 $98
2024 Mainstage Tickets
Adult $55
Senior $50
2024 Group Tickets
Groups (10+)
> please call Lou Bradley, Group Sales Manager to book, 1-844-735-4832 x.4
2024 Youth & Arts Worker
> please call the Box Office for special pricing & to reserve your seats, 1-844-735-4832 x.3
To purchase tickets online to individual shows, please scroll down the page for more information. A seating chart for the Mandeville Theatre is shown at the bottom of this page.
2024 Surprise Subscriptions
Pick 2 & Pick 3 Surprise Subscriptions
Fill Your Summer with Laughter! See all 3 Foster Comedies & get the Best Deal of our 2024 Season. Our Foster Festival Surprise Subscriptions offer the very best value for our loyal Foster Fans. PLUS, subscribers pay less on handling fees (per ticket!).
Subscribers will also have access to exclusive discounts for additional special events and programming in 2024 that are offered outside of our regular summer season schedule.
During our 2024 Summer Season, The Foster Festival is offering 2 Norm Foster World Premieres and 1 Greatest Hit (our Foster Friends are sure to be excited for this one!).
Full season of shows listed below.
Those Movies by Norm Foster
World Premiere!
Directed by Lisa Horner
July 4 – 14, 2024
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College, St. Catharines
Casting announcement coming soon…
Harry and Patrick are best friends. Patrick needs somewhere to stay for a few weeks, so he moves in with Harry. Harry works at the local Hospital as the north barrier gate operator and he has recently drummed up the courage to ask the south barrier gate operator, Millie Bell, out on a date. She’s expected to arrive at Harry’s apartment any minute. Millie’s cousin Chelsea is visiting from out-of-town and Millie does not want to leave Chelsea alone at home. Suddenly the couples find themselves on a double-date. Patrick worries that the evening will unfold like one of “Those Movies” and Chelsea is going to fall head over heels for him. Is Patrick right? Will the evening unfold like one of “Those Movies?” A heartwarming tale about how love can surprise you and be found in unexpected places…perhaps not always in the romantic sense.
Whit’s End by Norm Foster
World Premiere!
Directed by Jamie Williams
July 25 – August 4, 2024
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College, St. Catharines
Casting announcement coming soon…
Whit is a letter carrier a week away from retirement. He and his partner Nikki, a retired fiduciary, have plans for a fresh start in Kelowna. Nikki, retirement, and Kelowna are unknown to Whit’s children Steven, a 33-year-old pharmaceutical rep, and Erica, a keyboard player in a Montreal dining establishment, who he has invited home to share his exciting news. Steven and Erica are expecting news of an entirely different kind. A comedy of errors ensues in this delightfully funny Foster play about love and family as each character examines the meaning of commitment.
The Melville Boys by Norm Foster
40th Anniversary Production!
Directed by Emily Oriold
August 15 – 25, 2023
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College, St. Catharines
Casting announcement coming soon…
Perhaps Norm Foster’s most famous play! The Foster Festival celebrates the 40th anniversary of the play that launched Foster’s career as a playwright back in 1984. A relaxing weekend trip full of fishing, football, and beer is on the agenda for the Melville brothers, Owen and Lee. But weekend plans are suddenly thrown for a loop when the boys meet two attractive sisters, who inadvertently change more than their agenda. In this modern Canadian classic, Norm Foster offers a lighthearted comedy full of vigour about brotherhood, family, and the unexpected.
Fostered Playwrights Festival
Three New Canadian Plays, three public readings
April 5, 6, 7 2023
Hernder Estates Winery, St. Catharines
In accordance with its mandate, The Foster Festival has initiated its new play development program, developing new Canadian comedies by playwrights other than the company’s namesake. After reading 72 submissions of new plays from across the country, the Festival has selected three new works to feature in their first annual Fostered Playwrights Festival, a weekend of professionally performed and directed readings of the scripts. The 2024 selections include Time and Tide by Jody Stevens McCluskey (NS), Mechanically Inclined by Steve Ross (ON), and Go for Gold, Audrey Pham by Camille Pavlenko (AB).
Foster Festival audiences will have an opportunity to provide constructive feedback following each reading during a Q&A session.
Weekend passes and single tickets will go on sale in February 2024.
Fostered playwrights festival tickets
Length of each public reading event will vary.
World Premiere of New Play
By a Canadian Playwright
Directed by Jamie Williams
Nov 14 – 24, 2024
Location: TBA
One of the three plays featured during our spring Fostered Playwrights Festival will be chosen to receive a full production at The Foster Festival in Nov 2024.
All 2024 Season Subscribers receive an exclusive 20% discount on single tickets for this world premiere, the fourth production of our 2024 Season.
The chosen play will be announced in June 2024.
A Niagara Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens, Adapted by Jamie Williams
Directed by Lisa Horner
Dec 11-15, 2024
Staged Reading
St. Catharines Museum & Welland Canals Centre
Join us for a staged reading of our newly adapted Canadian version of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol in partnership with the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canal Centre. In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Welland Canal Company and the construction of the Canal itself, we are taking Dickens’ beloved holiday ghost story and setting it in 19th century St. Catharines at the time of the Canal’s build. A Niagara Christmas Carol is a uniquely Canadian take on the traditional story of Ebeneezer Scrooge’s redemption and will be directed by Lisa Horner, performed by some of your favourite Foster Festival personalities.
Tickets for this holiday event will go on sale in June 2024.
Mandeville Theatre Seating Chart - Summer 2024
Thank you to our 2024 Season Supporters
