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October 2019
Meet the Playwright – Keith Barker
A free Question & Answer Period/Reading with Keith Barker, following a performance of his play This Is How We Got Here, at Magnus Theatre, 10 South Algoma Street, Thunder Bay, Ontario. Performance is October 27, 2019, 14h. Show Tickets: www.magnustheatre.com. …
Find out more »Bang Bang By Kat Sandler
October 2 - October 19 Preview: October 2 TOM HENDRY WAREHOUSE When a Black female police officer shoots an unarmed young Black man, a white playwright uses this event as inspiration for his hit play soon to be adapted into…
Find out more »The Election by Yolanda Bonnell & Natasha Greenblatt
Following the wildly successful run of The Public Servant, Common Boots Theatre delivers a provocative and hilarious investigation of how Canadians engage in democracy. In 2015, a group of theatre makers signed up with the Canadian Federal Election as volunteers…
Find out more »Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story by Hannah Moscovitch, Christian Barry and Ben Caplan
Part high-energy musical and part darkly funny folktale, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story stars genre-bending sensation Ben Caplan, one of Canada’s most riveting and compelling performers. Written by Ottawa’s own Hannah Moscovitch, this klezmer music-theatre hybrid is inspired by the true story of two…
Find out more »YAGA by Kat Sandler
From the mind that brought you Mustard, a genre-bending fairy tale meets whodunit inspired by the notorious figure of Baba Yaga, the hideous old witch who lives alone in the woods grinding the bones of the wicked. A gruesome murder in…
Find out more »Little One by By Hannah Moscovitch
A chilling look at what happens in the nicest of neighbourhoods and in the nicest of families, “Little One” raises complex questions about good intentions, irreversible damage and the nature of love. One of Canada’s major contemporary playwrights skillfully unwraps…
Find out more »The Life and Death of Fred Herko by Natalie Liconti
Join us for an immersive and site-specific performance presented as part of Workman Arts' Rendezvous With Madness Festival 2019 Step into an alternate future – somewhere between an intergalactic house party and Andy Warhol’s Factory. In 1964, at the age…
Find out more »Alice and the World We Live In by Alexandria Haber
ALICE: How long is forever? WHITE RABBIT: Sometimes, just one second. Alice stands frozen on a dangerous mountain pass. Paralyzed, unable to move forward or turn back, she is suspended between multiple possibilities of what could have been and what…
Find out more »In This House by Grace Thompson
Charlie is looking for happy, Remi is a struggling musician and bartender who has clinical depression, Jinx is a burlesque performer and PHD candidate who works at The Orange Balloon, and Minka, no one knows what Minka does. In This House is…
Find out more »Bordertown Cafe By Kelly Rebar
Bordertown Cafe by Kelly Repar and directed by Bernice Fehr takes place in rural Alberta in a small bordertown cafe. A comedy that is full of family dynamics in three generations. For Reservations Call: 604-288-2415
Find out more »Blood Relations By Sharon Pollock
Blood Relations is a psychological murder mystery written by Sharon Pollock. The play is based on historical fact and speculation surrounding the life of Lizzie Borden and the murders of her father and stepmother, crimes with which Borden was charged. Get tickets
Find out more »Theory by Norman Yeung – American Premiere
"Theory" by Norman Yeung makes its American Premiere with Mosaic Theater Company in Washington, D.C., directed by Victoria Murray Baatin. The Herman Voaden National Playwriting Prize-winning play had its World Premiere in October, 2018, produced by Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.…
Find out more »Bang Bang by Kat Sandler
Lila is a Black former police officer whose career ended after she shot an unarmed Black youth. Her story is fictionalized by Tim, a white playwright whose play about the shooting takes liberties with the facts. Now there’s talk of…
Find out more »With Glowing Hearts by Jennifer Wynne Webber
Join us for the official Calgary launch of Jennifer Wynne Webber's With Glowing Hearts: How Ordinary Women Worked Together to Save the World (And Did). Webber, a former actor, will give a lively reading of select scenes from the play.…
Find out more »Our Ghosts by Sally Stubbs
“Our Ghosts is a drama inspired by the true story of the mysterious disappearance of my father and his co-pilot on a routine flight from the Comox Air Base on March 22, 1956.” So writes Sally Stubbs of her extraordinary…
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