Round out your theatre season with fabulous plays being offered for this year’s autumn season with song, wit, exuberance and lyricism for which the Stratford Shakespeare Festival company of artists is renowned. Comedies shine with love triangles and mistaken genders in Twelfth Night, the sport of love at an old fool’s expense in The Merry Wives of Windsor and sophisticated French farce inThe Misanthrope. Or allow a musical to take you to a land of courtly, medieval love in Camelot. Gritty, contemporary drama is found in Pinter’s The Homecoming and Tremblay’s Hosanna. The dark, bitter side of human nature emerges in Richard III and the violence of Titus Andronicus.

Each play is brought to life by a host of theatrical masters with the creative energies of Broadway, Gemini and British award winning players, directors and scenic designers unrivaled anywhere in North America. Visit www.stratfordfestival.ca to search and book your seats online.

A few minutes drive away, the Blyth Festival rounds out its annual season of Canadian plays. This autumn watch for the Young Company Project: Alligator Tears by the talented Britta Johnson and Young Audience performances of Jake’s Gift and The Wind in the Willows. The season wraps up with Wingfield’s Inferno by Dan Needles, starring Rob Beattie as the lovable and amusing Walt Wingfield; a local production of Sleeping Beauty; and an evening of great food and entertainment, the biennial fundraising Gala Dinner and Auction. For schedule and bookings go to www.blythfestival.com