Foster Festival Tickets
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Welcome to The Norm Foster Theatre Festival’s Ticketing Page. Below you will find more details about our shows and ticket information.
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2025 Subscriptions
Pick 3 Regular $135/person
Pick 4 Regular $180/person
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2025 Mainstage Tickets
Adult $55
Senior $50
2025 Special Event Tickets
Love Letters $84
Bedtime Stories $40
Stakeout $40
Fostered Playwrights Festival
Weekend Pass $90
Single Tickets $40
2025 Group Tickets
Groups (10+) $40
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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.
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2025 Subscriptions
Pick 3 and Pick 4 Surprise Subscriptions are the best deal of the season!
Personalize your own subscription and Pick 3 from On a First Name Basis, Screwball Comedy, Mechanically Inclined, or A Niagara Christmas Carol. If you can’t decide, choose a Pick 4 subscription and enjoy all four productions in the package.
Subscribers also have access to exclusive discounts for additional special events. By becoming a Pick 3 or Pick 4 subscriber you receive a 10% Discount on tickets to Love Letters, Bedtime Stories, and Stakeout.
A unique PROMO CODE for each special event will be sent to 2025 Subscription holders.
[Pictured]: David Rowan, Melanie Janzen, Peter Krantz, & Caroline Toal | Whit’s End 2024
Subscriptions work out to only $45 per ticket, per person!
A Niagara Christmas Carol (2024)
By Charles Dickens, Adapted by Jamie Williams
December 6 – St. Catharines Museum
December 7-8 – mandeville theatre
Staged Reading
Starring Jamie Williams, Molly Atkinson, Edmond Clark, Jasmine Case, Claire Jullien, Isaiah Kolundzic, Patrick McManus, Graeme Somerville, and Paul Ewan Wilson.
Join us for a staged reading of our newly adapted Canadian version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in partnership with the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals 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 Ebenezer Scrooge’s redemption. This is the first phase of our development of this piece and will have staged scenes, costume pieces, the singing of Christmas Carols, and a few other technical elements.
You are an important part of the development process! Early readings are key for a playwright to experience audience reactions and feedback during the rewriting process before a play is produced.
A NIAGARA CHRISTMAS CAROL TICKETS
Running time: 2 hours
This show is not a part of our 2024 Mainstage Summer Subscription Series.
Love Letters by A.R. Gurney
Special Event
Vineland Estates Winery, Vineland
Feb 13-15, 2025
This unique and imaginative theatre piece is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. Love Letters is an evocative, touching, frequently funny but always telling pair of character studies in which what is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actually written down.
Starring local personalities! To be announced soon.
This Valentine’s, join us for good food, good wine, and a whole lot of love in this beautiful setting.
[Pictured]: Melanie Janzen & Peter Krantz | Whit’s End 2024
Fostered Playwrights Festival
Three New Canadian Plays, three public readings
March 21-23, 2025
Firehall Theatre, Niagara Falls, ON
We are excited to offer our second annual Fostered Playwrights Festival and to continue the development of new Canadian work! The playwrights festival is a weekend of professionally directed and performed readings of three new pieces.
The 2025 selections include:
March 21 – Sew Far Sew Good by Marni Walsh
March 22 – Packing Up by Alison Lawrence
March 23 – Every Little Thing by Emily Oriold.
Foster Festival audiences will have an opportunity to provide constructive feedback following each reading during a Q&A session.
[Pictured]: Evelyn Wiebe & Rahul Gandhi | Time & Tide 2024
Fostered playwrights festival tickets
Length of each public reading event will vary.
Bedtime Stories by Norm Foster
Special Event
Co-Directed by Emily Oriold & Jamie Williams
May 28-June 1, 2025
Firehall Theatre, Niagara Falls, ON
Starring a cast from the Niagara’s community theatre scene!
What does a shock-radio jock, a dying man, two thieves, an aging rock star, an accident-prone stripper, and a woman leaving her husband have in common? Find out in this hilarious Foster comedy!
[Pictured]: Zoe O’Connor & Catherine McGregor | Jenny’s House of Joy 2023
On A First Name Basis by Norm Foster
Subscription Series
Starring Emily Oriold & Jamie Williams
July 3-17, 2025
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College, St. Catharines, ON
Back by popular demand, Artistic Director Emily Oriold and Artistic Associate Jamie Williams star in this laugh-out-loud comedy. A very successful but cantankerous novelist discovers that he knows nothing about his maid of 25 years. She, on the other hand, knows absolutely everything about him! He makes it his mission to learn all he can about her in a most engaging conversation. On a First Name Basis is a love story, a social commentary, and a mystery wrapped in witty dialogue and vivid imagery.
[Pictured]: Emily Oriold | Wildly Romantic 2022
Screwball Comedy by Norm Foster
Subscription Series
Directed by Emily Oriold
July 23-August 3, 2025
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College, St. Catharines, ON
Lucky, our Foster pup, makes a welcome return to the stage! It’s 1938 and Mary Hayes is trying to break into the male dominated world of newspaper journalism. Editor-in-Chief Bosco Godfrey sets a competition between his egotistical star reporter and plucky Mary. If Mary wins, she will replace the ace newshound. Screwball Comedy is an homage to those zany screwball comedies of that the 1930s, full of snappy dialogue, outrageous characters, and humour that packs a punch.
[Pictured]: Cosette Derome & Eliza-Jane Scott | Screwball Comedy 2017
Mechanically Inclined by Steve Ross
Subscription Series
Directed by Jamie Williams
August 14-24, 2025
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College, St. Catharines, ON
One of the plays developed through The Foster Festival’s 2024 Fostered Playwrights Festival, it was a favourite amongst attendees. Born and raised in the Niagara Region, Steve Ross has performed at theatres across the country including 21 seasons with the Stratford Festival. Shakespeare isn’t your typical fare for the amateur, but when Abby gets her chance to direct A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a cast of community misfits, she discovers more drama outside the rehearsal hall than in it. Mechanically Inclined is a hilarious look at how theatre can bring purpose, meaning, and connection to even the most motley of crews.
[Pictured]: Nora McLellan, Leah Pinsent & William Vickers | Renovations for Six 2018
Stakeout by Norm Foster
Special Event
Starring Emily Oriold & Jamie Williams
October 2-5, 2025
Old Pelham Town Hall, Fenwick, ON
Two cops are assigned to conduct a stakeout at a bus stop across the street from a house where suspected drug deals are being made. With nothing but time on their hands they try to remain as inconspicuous as possible while maintaining their cover as a married couple. Not an easy task having never met before. What could go wrong? Find out as Emily and Jamie take to the stage in Stakeout!
With musical guests Melissa-Marie Shriner and Declan (Paddyman) O’Sullivan!
[Pictured]: Heather McGuigan & Tyler Lionel Parr | Those Movies 2024
A Niagara Christmas Carol adapted by Jamie Williams
Subscription Series
Directed by Emily Oriold
Dates still TBA – Nov/DEC 2025
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College, St. Catharines, ON
In partnership with the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, and in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Welland Canal Company and the construction of the Canal itself, Dickens’ beloved holiday ghost story is set 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 Ebenezer Scrooge’s redemption.
[Pictured]: Jamie Williams as Scrooge
A NIAGARA CHRISTMAS CAROL TICKETS
Running Time: 2 hours
mainstage subscription series
Mandeville Theatre Seating Chart
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