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The Actress (Oct 27 – Nov 5, 2022)

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The Actress takes us backstage as a colourful, complicated actress makes her emotional farewell performance. Various people from her life invade her dressing room to say their goodbyes, declare their love, roar with laughter, spit insults, grab a final embrace and renew old battles. 

The last show is always a very strange affair.  It is like a party, a great buzz of excitement but then each actor will leave with laughter still ringing in their ear  and a cheery wave.  Then it stops.  As you watch them walk down the street, they look terribly lonely.  After all the applause and elation, they walk home alone.  That is who actors are.  The happiest saddest people you will ever meet.

Enchanted April (Mar 24 – Apr 2, 2022)

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** IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Tickets for this production are available through the box office only. Please call 416-299-5557.

A Comedy Drama by Matthew Barber from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim.

When two frustrated London housewives decide to rent a villa in Italy for a holiday away from their bleak marriages, they recruit two very different English women to share the cost and the experience. There among the wisteria blossoms and Mediterranean sunshine, all four bloom again – rediscovering themselves in ways that they – and we – could have never expected.

2003 Tony Award Nominee—Best Play.
“ENCHANTED APRIL is as good as they come: a lush, thoroughly refreshing theatrical holiday. Escape has seldom seemed so sweet. A magical triumph.” —LA Times.

A Gift to Remember (Nov 28 – Dec 7, 2019)

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A comedy by Joseph Robinette, Based on the book Can This Be Christmas? by Debbie Macomber.

On Christmas Eve, during a snowstorm, a group of strangers all hoping to arrive at their destinations in time for Christmas find themselves stranded, due to a snowstorm, in a small train depot.  Understandably disappointed and dispirited they try to make the best of things with little success at first.  Eventually, however, they begin to bond despite their circumstances.  They even find themselves beginning to accept their fate by finding ways to celebrate the true spirit of Christmas.  As the former strangers become collective friends, they realize the memory of this night will be a gift to remember.

Awards: The Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award

Miracle on 34th Street (November 22 – December 1, 2018)

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Based on the 1947 Oscar-winning film, this heartwarming classic story of Kris Kringle, an old man from a retirement home who gets a job working as Santa Claus for Macy’s, the famous New York department store. Kris unleashes good will to the Macy’s customers by referring them to other department stores, where they can find exactly the toy their child wants for Christmas. Seen as deluded and dangerous by Macy’s, a plot ensues to have Kris sent to Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, that results in  a court hearing. At stake is one little girl’s belief in Santa Claus. In a dramatic decision, the court confirms Kris as the true Santa, allowing countless children to experience the joy of childhood fantasy.

 “This is a tale that we want to believe in… that creates a world we seem to desperately desire.”  ~ Santa Cruz Sentinel