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October 2019
Medicine Unbundled by Gary Geddes
Join Gary Geddes for a talk based on his recent book on the history and legacy of segregated Indigenous health care in Canada. An investigative author, Geddes embarked on a journey across Canada to interview Indigenous elders willing to share…
Find out more »In the Chocolate Boxes by Nicole S. Entin
A free staged reading of Nicole S. Entin's new play, In the Chocolate Boxes, as part of Alumnae Theatre's Next Stage Readings Series. Discussion of the play following the performance. Plot synopsis: In the 1950s, Lynn Turner, a wealthy New…
Find out more »33 X Nikki by Nicole Ratjen
From the writer of Polar Opposites, Lukas A musical and The Other Side of the Paddle comes: A Night with Nikki: The 33 X Nikki Toronto Book launch. Watch, laugh and cry along as a powerhouse cast of Toronto talent…
Find out more »GLORY by Tracey Power
A Western Canada Theatre Production Inspired by the true story of Canada’s own Preston Rivulettes. GLORY is the story of four friends who set out in 1933 to prove to Canada that a woman’s place is… on home ice. Can…
Find out more »East of Berlin by Hannah Moscovitch
Vergangenheitsbewältigung is a German word describing the attempt to analyze, digest and learn to live with the past, in particular the Holocaust - "Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it".The pressing need to learn from the atrocities of…
Find out more »Broken Tailbone by Carmen Aguirre
Factory presents a Nightswimming production Do you want to know how I actually broke my tailbone? An unforgettable salsa lesson that's sure to have even the most reluctant dancer up on their feet from award-winning actress, writer, and CBC Canada Reads winner, Carmen…
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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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…
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