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"We invite you to watch, listen, think, feel, question, empathize, laugh, cry, tap your toes, sing along and, most of all, imagine with us during this 25th season.” - David Nairn
September 19-23, 2018
True Confessions From The Ninth Concession
A loving and humorous look at rural life in story and song.
Dan Needles is a familiar face to Theatre Orangeville audiences, having penned the entire Wingfield Farm series. In 2003 he won the Leacock Medal for Humour. Dan joins Ian Bell, folksinger, storyteller and founding performer of CBC's Vinyl Café, to take you on a ramble through the back roads of rural and small town Ontario with stories, songs and lots of laughter.
October 11-28, 2018
Lunenburg
By Norm Foster
American widow Iris Oulette has inherited a home in Nova Scotia from her recently-deceased husband. Surprisingly, it is a home Iris knew nothing about. So, she and her best friend Natalie travel up to Lunenburg to see the home and to find out as much as she can about her husband's mysterious dealings in the lovely coastal village. What follows is a series of twists and turns, love and laughter... and a winsome neighbour named Charlie.
November 29-December 23, 2018
A Christmas Story
Christmas Classic By Philip Grecian
Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story, © 1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd.
Our special Christmas gift to you this holiday season is a faithful stage adaptation of the beloved movie classic. Join nine-year-old Ralphie Parker as he dreams of owning an authentic Red Rider BB gun despite admonitions that he'll shoot his eye out. Bring the entire family to enjoy this holiday favourite... “We triple dog dare you!”
February 14-March 3, 2019
Across The Pond - The British Invasion
Starring Leisa Way and The Lonely Hearts Club Band
Celebrate 50 years of British pop & rock music from familiar hits of the 60’s to today’s biggest stars, saluting such musical royalty as: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Petula Clark, Tom Jones, Queen, Rod Stewart, Adele,Elvis Costello, The Who, The Animals, Eric Clapton, The Police, Annie Lennox, The Kinks, and so many more! Join Leisa Way and the sensationally talented five-piece Lonely Hearts Club Band, as they take you on this electrifying musical adventure for all ages!
March 28-April 14, 2019
Off The Grid
World Premiere By John Spurway
Martha is an architect anxious to learn all about self-sufficient houses. Leonard is a loans officer who is more accustomed to creature comforts, like TV, the internet and a flush toilet. He has reluctantly agreed to spend a week “off the grid” while they celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary. When Lowell, the reclusive next door neighbour, arrives on the scene, he soon discovers that Martha and Len have yet another intriguing reason for being out in the middle of nowhere.
May 2-19, 2019
Where You Are
World Premiere By Kristen Da Silva
Sisters Glenda and Suzanne live a peaceful retirement selling homemade jam on Manitoulin Island. This summer, their usual concerns – trying to orchestrate sightings of their handsome veterinarian neighbour and preparing for the visit of Suzanne's grown daughter, Beth – are complicated by a secret the sisters can no longer contain. When Beth arrives with secrets of her own, the three women are forced to face things that will change their lives and relationships forever.
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Photo: Dan Needles and Ian Bell. ©2018 Theatre Orangeville.
2018-05-23
Orangeville: Theatre Orangeville announces it 2018/19 season