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23 | W aterloo C hronicle | T hursday,June 16,2022 w aterloochronicle.ca E X P L O R E R U R A L O N T A R I O An invitation to "escape to the country" is a welcome enticement. "Catch the Culture"provides the roadmap for such an escape, highlighting all that Wellesley and Wilmot townships and neighbouring St. Jacobs have to offer. Featuring details of heritage driving tours, walking tours, local events, businesses and attractions, this digital issue showcases diverse rural gems. "Catch the Culture"will be widely available through a QR code digital link and broadly promoted through Metroland's vast community newspaper footprint and associated websites. catch 2 0 2 2 V I S I T O R G U I D E CONTACT YOUR LOCAL SALE REPRESENTATIVE TO BOOK YOUR SPACE TODAY SPECIALDIGITALISSUE Cut out paying more Your only destination for more coupons, more flyers, more savings. #SavingWithSave save.ca/mlnaturalsmokedsausage Save $2.00 onMaple Leaf® Natural Smoked Sausage 750gScan to get coupons Located in Toronto's East End, Coal Mine Thea- tre is a tiny little space known for telling stories which are anything but. Coal Mine's first project back from the pandemic, Annie Baker's cerebral "The Antipodes," has been a hit with critics and audi- ences alike, and I know I'm already counting down the days until the company's next show. Playwright Lisa D'Amour's "Detroit" takes a suburban American summer fête and runs amok with it: it's a barbe- cue I'm more than a little eager to attend. HAMILTON: "Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story" at Theatre Aquarius, July 27 to Aug. 13, $55+ Hannah Moscovitch is one of Canada's most cele- brated playwrights, her prolific "Old Stock" one of the country's most inven- tive plays. Featuring musi- cian Ben Caplan as the cap- tivating Wanderer, "Old Stock" follows two Roma- nian Jews making the jour- ney to Canada in 1908. Weaving together music, humour, and poignant sto- rytelling, Moscovitch's deeply personal play is a modern classic, and with Caplan at its forefront, I can't imagine a better way to spend a summer day at the theatre. NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE: Shaw Festival, various programming year-round, $28+ Stop by Niagara-on-the- Lake for some wine, then stick around for this year's Shaw programming. The Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre lineup, in particu- lar, looks promisingly in- novative: 2018 Pulitzer fi- nalist "Everybody" by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins takes an early modern mo- rality play and turns it on its head, while Keith Bark- er's "This Is How We Got Here," produced in co-pro- duction with Native Earth Performing Arts, explores the nuance and contradic- tion of grief. Over in the Royal George Theatre, Johnna Wright and Patty Jamieson's play "Gaslight" runs through Oct. 8 -- it's an excellent piece of writ- ing, and there's no time like the present to learn where the phrase "gaslighting" first originated. TORONTO: SummerWorks Festival, Aug. 4-14, $0+ I'll be finishing the warm season strong at To- ronto's SummerWorks Festival, a beloved plat- form for emerging and es- tablished artists alike. Though this year's Sum- merWorks programming remains under wraps, the festival has historically been a consistently strong forum for new writing and performance from Toronto artists. In collaboration with the City of Toronto's ArtworxTO: Toronto's Year of Public Art 2021-2022 initiative, this year's Sum- merWorks lineup has also expanded to include large- scale public art installa- tions alongside public per- formances and workshops. SummerWorks is a labora- tory; a playground; an in- cubator. It's everything at once -- and a fantastic way to finish out one of South- ern Ontario's most promis- ing summer seasons of the- atre ever. WHAT'S ON Continued from page 22 With warmer weather comes a powerful new season of theatre in Ontario. Toronto Star photo illustration SHAW'S PROGRAMMING 'PROMISINGLY INNOVATIVE'