January 18, 2025

Stratford Festival attendance remains steady

By Colin Burrowes, Spoke News Founded in 1953 by local journalist Tom Patterson as the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the Stratford Festival has helped turn the capital of Perth County into an internationally recognized tourist destination. “We’re always in the vicinity of about 500,000 attendees,” said Ann Swerdfager, publicity director for the Stratford Festival. “Last year we were 512,000. The year before that we were around 480,000. This year we don’t … Continued