Our season tickets open the door to a year of captivating productions, from iconic classics to bold new comedies. Stories of walking through life to love and stories of keeping yourself going after loss, and of course our annual Christmas Carol, by John D. Houston. Tickets go on sale September 3rd.

All presented by Theatre Kingston, Kingston's Professional Theatre Company, This year our mainstage productions will be at the Homestead Baby Grand, and Christmas Carol will be at the newly renovated TKSTUDIO, in the Tett Centre. With the season pass our early‑bird pricing, saves you money while securing the best seats for every performance. And this year you can choose the days when you get the pass. Celebrate creativity and belong to Kingston’s thriving artistic family by reserving your seats today.

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The Year of Magical Thinking

By Joan Didion

Oct 13-25, 2026

Baby Grand Theatre

In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play.

“This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you....”

Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called the memoir that was the basis for the play, “an indelible portrait of loss and grief ... a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage."

The prospect of losing a loved one is something nobody wants to talk about, and nobody thinks will happen to them, and yet inevitably it comes to us all. Journalist and author Joan Didion wrote this play to help us through this extremely complex experience. Anyone who has experienced loss will find encouragement in Didion’s exquisitely shared story, and no one will fail to be moved by this play.

Joan McBride delivers a commanding solo turn, capturing both the clinical detachment and the shattering vulnerability of Joan Didion and highlighting the production's emotional honesty, and successfully honoring Didion's exploration of sudden loss and the messy, non-linear reality of mourning.

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STROLLING PLAYER

By Richard Sheridan Willis & Heidi Reimer

Oct 29-Nov15, 2026

Homestead Baby Grand Theatre

When English/American actor Richard Willis married Canadian writer Heidi Reimer, they applied for his Canadian residency. One gruelling immigration form demanded a list of Richard’s location and activities each month since his eighteenth birthday. Thus, this grueling utilitarian activity gave birth to Strolling Player, recalling a life dedicated to the vagaries and upheavals of life as an actor.

Age eighteen was a long time ago - from entranced boy at his father’s seaside theatre to actor bringing Shakespeare to the White House, through death and divorce, Oscar Wilde and Harvey Fierstein, falling off the stage and falling in love, Strolling Player recounts the passions and absurdities of one actor’s life.

The show is 90 minutes with no intermission.

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MANDELBAUM

Written and performed by Tracey Erin Smith

March 10-20, 2027

Homestead Baby Grand Theatre

Mandelbaum, is an innovative theatrical experience written and performed by acclaimed Canadian playwright Tracey Erin Smith. This wild, time-bending solo journey into the life of America's first crime boss Fredericka Mandelbaum reveals NYC's underworld secrets in the late 19th century.

Mrs. Mandelbaum, a Jewish immigrant from Germany, rose to become the queen of crime on the Lower East Side. Now, with law enforcement closing in, her criminal empire is in jeopardy. In a stroke of magical realism, storyteller Tracey Erin Smith finds herself face-to-face with Mandelbaum in 1884 New York. As these two dynamic women – separated by time but united by their complex connections to crime and family – swap stories, the line between history and personal narrative blurs. What unfolds is an intriguing blend of fact, fiction, and humor, offering life lessons from both past and present.

The play features stories of Mandelbaum's criminal genius juxtaposed with Smith's own experience of a father who also had brushes with the law. With wit and wisdom, Smith brings to life this extraordinary historical figure while exploring her own personal history, creating a captivating performance where truth and fiction intertwine.

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WAITING FOR GODOT

By Samuel Beckett

Directed by Rosemary Doyle

May 6-16, 2027

Homestead Baby Grand Theatre

Directed by Rosemary Doyle and starring Cassel Miles, David Frisch, Sean Roberts and Nicholas Rice. Premiering in 1953, Waiting for Godot centers on two men waiting for the titular Godot, engaging in a number of discussions in the meantime. The work has become a theatrical classic.

Waiting for Godot is a play by Irish playwright and author Samuel Beckett. It was written (1948–1949), first published (1952), and first performed (1953) in French as En attendant Godot. The play is Beckett's own English-language adaptation of the original. Subtitled "tragicomedy in two acts", it is his best-known literary work and is regarded by critics as "one of the most enigmatic plays of modern literature". In a public poll conducted by London's Royal National Theatre in the year 1998, Waiting for Godot was voted as "the most significant English-language play of the 20th century."

In Waiting for Godot, the two main characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), spend their days waiting for someone named Godot, who they believe will provide them with salvation. They pass the time with conversations, physical routines, and philosophical musings, but their hope fades as Godot never arrives. They encounter three other characters, Pozzo and his servant Lucky and a young boy. As the play unfolds, the repetition of actions and dialogue suggests the cyclical nature of their lives, and though Godot is promised for "tomorrow", he never appears in the play, leaving the characters in a state of existential uncertainty.

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