STUDIO THEATREAUGUST 23 – OCTOBER 29 | OPENS SEPTEMBER 11 1939 WORLD PREMIÈRE A STRATFORD FESTIVAL COMMISSION JANI LAUZON AND KAITLYN RIORDAN DIRECTED BY JANI LAUZON AN INSPIRING JOURNEY FROM PAGE TO STAGE Anticipating a visit by King George VI, an English teacher at a fictional Residential School in Northern Ontario enlists her students in…
A cockroach smoking catnip. A bard lamenting over immortality. A boy stuck in a sticky situation. Three splinters caught in a collision of language, longing, and lobsters (who sometimes burst, and who sometimes burp). From Toronto Theatre Critics award-winning playwright Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho), Cockroach is a coming-of-age play about the stories we tell ourselves to comfort, to…
Parenthood isn’t easy. Especially in front of an audience. While most people get to keep their parenting struggles behind closed doors, Charles and Norah are laying theirs bare. As the young couple navigate their life as parents of a toddler, they also try to figure out who they are in relation to each other, their…
The moving love story between Mary Sophia Gapper and Edward O'Brien is back with performances across Simcoe County in September 2022. First presented in 2018, Mary of Shanty Bay is based on the real-life diaries of Mary, who comes to Canada from England in 1828. What starts off as a short visit soon becomes a lifelong adventure,…
PROPHECY FOG Created and Performed by Jani Lauzon Directed by Franco Boni From award-winning artist, Jani Lauzon, Prophecy Fog begins with a journey into the Mojave Desert in search of Giant Rock, armed with the question: can a site still be sacred if it has been desecrated? Prophecy Fog weaves together the performance skills of…
October 29 - November 6 "Hannah Moscovitch’s Old Stock is richly humorous, wildly entertaining and deeply moving" - Martin Morrow, The Globe and Mail Directed by Christian Barry Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is a humourously dark folktale woven together with a high-energy concert. This Klezmer music-theatre hybrid starring genre-bending sensation Ben Caplan is…
A guest production from Ruby Slippers Theatre. BENEVOLENCE by Fanny Britt translated by Leanna Brodie Sept 29 – Oct 15, 2022 Gilles Jean, big-time lawyer, returns to his hometown of Benevolence to try a troubling case involving the child of an old friend. But with the ghosts of his deceased brothers and father peering over his…
LOST IN THE WILLOWS 4th - 6th October 2022 FourTails Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Lost In The Willows, by Christine Foster. Loss and loneliness stalked Kenneth Grahame, the author of The Wind in The Willows. He claimed he had only enjoyed one brief period in his life: his carefree childhood on the banks of the Thames. He becomes a reluctant…
BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRESENTS A NEW HARLEM PRODUCTIONS AND GREAT CANADIAN THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION An epic exploration of history, war, and forgiveness, The First Stone delves into the exploitation of child abductees, the communities from which these children are stolen, the determination to bring them home, and the hard road to reconciliation that follows. Through…
Children of Fire is an intimate portrayal of the Kurdish female freedom fighters that hosted Shahrzad Arshadi and Anna Chatterton in the mountains of Kurdistan in 2018. Co-created with a mix of verbatim theatre and first-person confessional, this play follows the journey and layered relationship across cultures between Shahrzad and Anna, and asks what is…
OCTOBER 6–16, 2022 BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRESENTS A NEW HARLEM PRODUCTIONS AND GREAT CANADIAN THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION An epic exploration of history, war, and forgiveness, The First Stone delves into the exploitation of child abductees, the communities from which these children are stolen, the determination to bring them home, and the hard road…
REDBONE COONHOUND By Amy Lee Lavoie & Omari Newton An Arts Club Silver Commission as part of a Rolling World Premiere with Tarragon Theatre (Toronto) and Imago Theatre (Montreal) October 6–30, 2022 Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre A NEW COMEDY WITH BITE Out for a walk in their West End neighbourhood, Mike and…
My Sister’s Rage Written and Directed by Yolanda Bonnell October 11 – November 6, 2022 When their Matriarch ends up in a coma, a ma’iingan-wolf clan family gathers together to work through their collective grief and begin to heal from an incident in the past. While the Aunties camp out in the hospital room, the…
A 2b Theatre Production Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is a humourously dark folktale woven together with a high-energy concert. This Klezmer music-theatre hybrid starring genre-bending music sensation Ben Caplan is inspired by the true stories of two Jewish Romanian refugees coming to Canada in 1908. It’s about how to love after being broken…
Sleight of Mind By Daniela Vlaskalic Based on True Events In association with Hit and Myth Productions A LIFE ENTANGLED BETWEEN THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. Rudi Schneider has an extraordinary gift…and it just might destroy his life. Driven by a father’s obsession and his astonishing paranormal abilities, Rudi finds himself caught between two worlds,…
