Our fall play production, the classic Shakespeare play, is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96, portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta (the former queen of the Amazons).

A wedding, a Greek island, 3 possible fathers, and ABBA!

A collection of free-verse epitaphs of the dead townspeople of Spoon River, a fictional small town in Illinois.

Adolescent orphan Oliver Twist falls in with a group of street criminals led by the Artful Dodger and masterminded by the notorious criminal Fagin. When Oliver’s intended mark, Mr. Brownlow, takes pity on the boy and offers him a home, Fagin’s henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy to keep him from talking. Set in Vancouver’s downtown east side, this modern twist on the classic tale exposes the gritty underbelly of child and youth homelessness and the role community plays in defining who we are.

April 2017
Directed by Patrick Tomczyk
A 1978 play by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, Tongues is a series of monologues set to percussion.

April 2017
Directed by Patrick Tomczyk
A 1978 play by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, Tongues is a series of monologues set to percussion.

April 2018 – Tales of the Uncanny, the Unusual, and the Unheard of

May 2018
Directed by Paul Mulloy
A musical based on the animated 1989 Disney film and the classic story by Hans Christian Andersen about a mermaid who dreams of the world above the sea and gives up her voice to find love.

Fall 2016
by John Mariani, directed by Michelle Crimmins
A play by John Cariani, comprising nine short plays that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine.

Fall 2016
A 1970 rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, sung through with no spoken dialogue.

April 2017
Directed by Patrick Tomczyk
A 1978 play by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, Tongues is a series of monologues set to percussion.

May 2017
Directed by Paul Mulloy
A romantic comedy musical, largely based on the Gershwin songwriting team’s 1930 musical, Girl Crazy, but incorporating songs from several other productions.

Spring 2016 By Joseph Robinette and Ron Jones
Directed by Kevin McKendrick
A true story about a high-school experiment in fascism that went out of control. Set in 1967 in California, during the Vietnam war, racial integration and social revolution, the play centers around a young, popular teacher and his world history class.

May, 2016

A musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests.

December 2014
By John Jakes (adapted from a novel by Charles Dickens)
The story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man.

Spring 2015
A musical production written by Hach, O’Keefe and Benjamin

Fall 2014
Written by Strouse and Charnin (adapted from a novel by Thomas Meehan)

November 2013
By Paul Ledoux (based on the novel “Anne of Green Gables”)

December 2013
Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Directed by Kevin McKendrick
The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London.

2014
By Jason Patrick Rotary
Wedgie tackles the burning political issues of the 21st century and the onset of puberty.

May 2014

Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
The story is about a young Austrian woman studying to become a nun in Salzburg in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children.

May 2013
By Dick Scanlan and Jeanine Tesoro
The musical focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss.

November 2012
by Moliere, adapted by Timothy Mooney
The hypochondriac Argan wants nothing more than to be sick, or at least to be thought of as sick, and tended to by doctors and family (notably his scheming wife).

December 2012 by J.M. Barrie
A mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and children from the world outside Neverland.

April 2013
by Chris Craddock and Steve Pirot
Stevie and Darryll lie awake in their double bed, staring up at the dark ceiling. They’re waiting for their dad to tell them a bedtime story. They wait. And wait. World-famous novelist Jed McGriffen can’t tuck his girls in tonight because he’s stuck in a dream.

November 2011 – Set in New York City in the mid-1950s, the musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

December 2011
Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice
Adapted from the french fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast tells the story of a prince transformed into a hideous beast as punishment for his cruel and selfish ways, and an adventurous young woman named Belle whom he imprisons in his castle.

April 2012
Jonas’ world is perfect. Everything is under control and safe. There is no war or fear or pain. There are also no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. But when Jonas turns 12, he is chosen for special training from The Giver—to receive and keep the memories of the community.

May 2012
by Eric Rose – based on the 1923 play by Elmer Rice
The story takes us through Mr. Zero’s trial, execution, excursion and arrest going into the afterlife. Mr. Zero is an accountant at a large, faceless company. After 25 years at his job, he discovers that he will be replaced by an adding machine.

November 2010
By Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland.
Based on Louisa May Alcott’s class novel, it focuses on the four March sisters during the Civil War.

December 2010
Our Town is a 1938 three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover’s Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.

April 2011
From the murder of one innocent young seminarist to full blown bloody revolution in the streets of Paris, Scaramouche is a swashbuckling tale of romance, revenge and political upheaval.

May 2011
By Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein
A musical set in Imperial Russia in 1905, the story centres on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family’s lives.

November 2009
Written and directed by Ellen Chorley, Edmonton Playwright/Director

November 2009
by Calgary playwright & composer Ethan Cole

April 2010
The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father’s murder.

May 2010
A musical based on the novel Les Misérables by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo.
Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his quest for redemption after serving nineteen years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his sister’s starving child.

Dec 2008
-by Joan MacLeod
Inspired by the real-life murder in 1997 of the 14-year-old Reena Virk by two high school girls in Vancouver, this memory play tells the fictional story of a less horrific act of brutality told from the perspective of a not-so-innocent bystander. By making the play about her failure to act courageously, it becomes a more complex drama with thornier moral issue.

April 2008
By Arthur Miller
Originally done in in 1953, The Crucible is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-93.

April 2009
Based on Les Fourberies de Scapin (“Scapin’s Deceits”), a three-act comedy by the French playwright Molière.
Set in Italy, Scapino is a rapscallion, a fast-talking, quick-thinking scamp who devises a complex plot to help two pairs of lovers against parental opposition and cleverly manipulates and cajoles everyone into doing what he intends them to do.

December 2007
A musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
Now one of the most performed shows in America, Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza based on the books of Dr. Seuss.

April 2008
By Edmonton playwright Chris Craddock
Three sets of characters weave in and out of each others’ story lines, offering insights into their encounters with alcohol and drug abuse.