Audience Etiquette

Audience Etiquette helps make everyone's Festival experience a positive one!

• Please respect all Festival-goers by bringing children who are within the recommended age for each show.
  
  
• Please be prepared to remove your children from the theatre if they cry or become disruptive.
  
  
• Allow time to park.
  
  
• Arrive on time for your show. Latecomers will be admitted ONLY if there is a suitable break in the performance.
  
  
• Go to the washroom before entering the theatre. You can disrupt the performance for everyone by entering and leaving during the show. Some more intimate shows may not allow for re-entry once a performance has begun.
  
  
• Plan to stay for the entire performance.
  
  
• Help your children to understand the difference between "listening shows" such as theatre presentations, and "participatory shows" such as music performances.
  
  
• Audience members can show respect for performers and other audience members by not talking or moving from their seats unless the performer invites them to participate.
  
  
• No camera, recording devices, cellular phones, hand-held video games, food or drink in the theatres, please.
  
  
• If you liked what you saw during the performance, the performers love to hear your applause at the end of the show.