2025 Season - What's Up Next
On behalf of everyone at The Foster Festival, we wish to offer our sincere appreciation to our ticket holders, our subscribers, our sponsors, and everyone who continues to share in the laughter with us season after season. Thank you.
Love Letters
by A.R. Gurney
Special Event
Vineland Estates Winery, Vineland
February 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. An evocative, touching, and frequently funny piece.
Fostered Playwrights Festival 2025
Three New Plays
Weekend Festival
Firehall Theatre, Niagara Falls
March 21-23, 2025
Emerging and established Canadian playwrights submit their new scripts for consideration. Three selections are professionally performed and directed in public readings over a weekend. One of the three will, ultimately, be chosen for a full production during our 2026 Season.
Bedtime Stories
by Norm Foster
Special Community Event
Firehall Theatre, Niagara Falls
May 28-June 1, 2025
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 Bedtime Stories, featuring a cast from the Niagara Region’s community theatre scene.
On A First Name Basis
by Norm Foster
Subscription Series
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College
July 3-17, 2025
A very successful, but cantankerous novelist suddenly 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.
Screwball Comedy
by Norm Foster
Subscription Series
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College
July 23-August 3, 2025
An homage to those zany screwball comedies of the 1930s, full of snappy dialogue, outrageous characters, and humour that packs a punch. It’s 1938 and newcomer, Mary Hayes, is trying to break into the male dominated world of newspaper journalism.
Mechanically Inclined
by Steve Ross
Subscription Series
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College
August 14-24, 2025
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. A hilarious look at the purpose and meaning of theatre.
Stakeout
by Norm Foster
Special Event
Old Pelham Town Hall, Fenwick
October 2-5, 2025
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.
A Niagara Christmas Carol
adapted by Jamie Williams
Subscription Series
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College
November/December 2025
We have taken Dickens’ beloved holiday ghost story and have set it in 19th century St. Catharines at the time of the Welland Canal’s second build. A Niagara Christmas Carol is a uniquely Canadian take on the traditional story of Ebenezer Scrooge’s redemption.
Thank you to our 2025 Season Supporters
