A theatre all about the Stirling community, the Stirling Festival Theatre is not just a theatre but a building important to Stirling’s history.

Originally built in 1972 and modelled after Broadway’s Shubert Theatre in New York, the theatre worked as a movie theatre for the community, a place to hold community events, and a place to watch live performances occasionally. However, in 1984, all that changed when the Stirling Performing Arts Committee was formed with founding members who made the theatre a place for proper live entertainment and live performances.

Since then, the theatre has been hosting many live performances, with locals, people from the Ontario region and beyond coming to the theatre just to watch the productions and shows.

Today the theatre has an SFT young company led by artistic director Ken MacDougall providing youth with the opportunity to work on professional productions with actors, directors and choreographers. A recent and popular production hosted in the Stirling Festival Theatre by the company was the “Drivers Drive-ins and Dies,” a murder mystery performance of the chaos that erupts when a body shows up in a mom-and-pop shop.

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