Stage Door News
Stage Door News
After 45 years, it’s time to celebrate. It’s time to celebrate our community, our culture, our heritage, and our voice. It’s time to celebrate the True North.
And, after 45 years, it’s time for the next stage.
To celebrate our milestone 45th Anniversary, STC is offering you a 16|17 Season unlike anything that has come before it. We are tripling our programming and adding a diversity of content that is unprecedented in our history.
We’re throwing open our doors to the performing arts and, for the first time, introducing a Music Series, Dance Series, Comedy Series, and Variety Series celebrating 150 years of Canadian culture, and anchored by a rousing mainstage Theatre Series and Young Audience Series dedicated to northern Ontario artists and stories.
HERE'S THE ENTIRE 16|17 SEASON AT A GLANCE:
9 SEP 2016 Johnny Max Band: The Great Canadian Song Book
An evening of hit songs and sweet memories, opened by Andy Lowe’s Northern Ontario Songbook
23 SEP 2016 Cathy Jones: Stranger to Hard Work
A Canadian cultural icon’s hilarious one-woman show.
29 SEP-9 OCT 2016 ARMSTRONG’S WAR
by Colleen Murphy
A touching account of friendship and fragility.
20+21 OCT 2016 Rebecca Perry: Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl
Come and meet this feisty anthropologist/barista and the creatures of her coffeeshop jungle.
27 OCT 2016 Indian Dinner Gala Fundraiser
Caruso Club
28+29 OCT 2016 Richard Sheridan Willis: Strolling Player
A spellbinding account of a life devoted to theatre.
3-9 NOV 2016 REARVIEW English-language premiere
by Gilles Poulin-Denis
copresented by Le Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario
Memories in the mirror are closer than they appear.
13 NOV 2016 Spirit Horse
adapted by Drew Hayden Taylor
Hope and healing are possible for a family caught between two worlds.
16 NOV 2016 Sampradaya Dance Creations: Pralaya
Canada’s leading professional Indian dance company.
18-20 NOV 2016 Ballet Jorgen: The Nutcracker
A delightful classic that brings magic to the holidays.
25 NOV 2016 Conviction Verbatim Workshop Reading
by Emil Sher
Two northern Ontario families are destroyed by the erroneous testimony of Dr. Charles Smith.
1-18 DEC 2016 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
adapted for the stage by Caleb Marshall
based on the film by Frank Capra
It took loosing everything to learn how much he was worth.
28 DEC 2016 Motus O Dance Theatre: Alice in Wonderland
Part dance, part theatre, part triathlon.
3 JAN 2017 The Fitzgerald Family: Everything Fitz
Multiple award-winning fiddle champions and step dancers.
20+21 JAN 2017 Celestial Being
by Dave Deveau, in association with Science North
Seeing things differently can be a wonderful gift.
28 JAN 2017 Cosima Grunsky: Cozy Music
Sing-along for all ages.
3+4 FEB 2017 Millan & Faye: The Opera
Singing through tuberculosis, poisonous leaves, or death by high note.
10 FEB 2017 Gavin Crawford: Friend Like #Me
A one-man show by one of Canada’s sharpest comic voices.
16 FEB-5 MAR 2017 MOOSE ON THE LOOSE
Loosely based on true events by Thunder Bay’s Dina Morrone
Blending in is never easy.
24+25 MAR 2017 Leisa Way, Oh Canada, We Sing For thee!
Sudbury’s Leisa Way and the Wayward Wind Band pay tribute to our music from the 50s to today.
31 MAR 2017 Vitaly: An Evening of Wonders
Reintroducing awe and wonder to the modern audience.
7+8 APR 2017 Rick Miller: Boom!
An explosive stage documentary of the baby boom years.
15 APR 2017 Whiskey Jack: Stories and Songs of Stompin’ Tom
A Sudbury Saturday night.
20 APR-7 MAY 2017 HOCKEY DREAMS
by David Adam Richards
copresented by YES Theatre
Speaks to us all about what it is to be Canadian and dream.
12+13 MAY 2017 Kahawi Dance Theatre: The Honouring
An homage to First Nations warriors of the War of 1812.
For more information, visit www.sudburytheatre.ca.
2016-04-13
Sudbury: The Sudbury Theatre Centre announces its 45th season