PART OF OUR ANNUAL SEASON OF EVENTS
2022/2023 THEATRE SERIES
We are delighted to be the Tri-Cities home for live theatre experiences! Join us for our 2022-2023 Season, featuring eight shows from local theatre companies and independent theatre performers.
Save big on the best shows in town! Theatre Series Subscriptions are still on sale, and single tickets for our full season go on sale July 01, 2022.
Header Image: Monster Theatre, Juliet: A Revenge Comedy. Part of our 2021-2022 Theatre Series.
ANNOUNCING OUR 2022/23 THEATRE SERIES
RING OF FIRE
September 27 – October 01, 2022 | 7:30pm & 3pm Saturday
First Impressions Theatre | by Richard Maltby Jr.
The ultimate celebration of the iconic Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire tells the story of finding love, success, faith and redemption. Performed by a multi-talented multi instrumental cast featuring some of our finest musical artists, this First Impressions Theatre production includes all of Cash’s classic hits: I Walk the Line, A Boy Named Sue, Folsom Prison Blues and many more! Ring of Fire is a powerful tribute to the Man in Black, an endlessly entertaining journey that will leave you cheering for more!
MOZART AND HER BROTHER
October 25 – 29, 2022 | 7:30pm & 3pm Saturday
The Geniusettes Collective | Created by Masae Day and Mark Weatherley
Mozart And Her Brother tells the story of Maria Anna Mozart (known as Nannerl) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as they grow up touring the great cities of Europe. Although she was a brilliant musician, and possibly even more skilled than her famous brother, Nannerl was eventually left behind by her family and by history. Although we know she wrote music, no known copies of it have survived.
RIDGE
November 15 – 19, 2022 | 7:30pm & 3pm Saturday
Written and performed by Brendan McLeod & The Fugitives
Often called the “battle that made Canada,” Vimy Ridge resulted in over 10,000 Canadian casualties. Through direct storytelling, verbatim theatre, and live music, Brendan McLeod examines misconceptions and varying perspectives around the battle, while drawing parallels to other formative events in our nation’s past. Featuring inventive musical interpretations of WWI soldier songs, Ridge probes difficult yet necessary questions about how and why we grieve.
LETTERS, LEFTOVERS, AND THE LOTTERY: THE WRITING OF SHIRLEY JACKSON
January 24 – 28, 2023 | 7:30pm & 3pm Saturday
Created by Allen Cole and Melody Johnson
Letters, Leftovers and the Lottery: The Writing of Shirley Jackson is a thoughtfully curated, multifaceted portrait of one of America’s finest writers. In this one act show, (approx. 80 mins), composer Allen Cole and actor Melody Johnson combine reading, performance, and live piano playing to Jackson’s newly published letters, lesser known psychologically charged stories, and a haunting retelling of Jackson’s most well known short story The Lottery.
TOMATOES TRIED TO KILL ME BUT BANJOS SAVED MY LIFE
February 14 – 18, 2023 | 7:30pm & 3pm Saturday
Written and performed by Keith Alessi
One of 18 worldwide ‘Best of’ shows selected to participate in the Fringe Encore series,Off-Broadway, at the historic Soho Playhouse in New York City in 2019. Sell-out run. Finalist for Offies On Comm award, 2022 (Broadway Baby). An inspirational true story about overcoming obstacles, pursuing passions and the healing power of music. A heartfelt passion project that began as an idea after a devastating life event caused Keith Alessi to think differently about his future.
DRIVING ME CRAZY
March 07 – 11, 2023 | 7:30pm & 3pm Saturday
Serendipity Theatre Collective
Inspired by stories from three generations, Driving Me Crazy, follows Liz, a grandmother fighting to keep her driver’s license, her independence and her voice in society. Liz is surrounded by her family: a son and daughter-in-law who are addicted to their cars, a granddaughter who is passionate about the environmental fight against oil guzzling vehicles, and a grandson on his way to learn hard lessons about drinking and driving. Anyone who has driven a car, been driven in a car, or been driven mad by their own family will laugh, cry and gasp.
THE HOW & THE WHY
April 11 – 15, 2023 | 7:30pm & 3pm Saturday
Aenigma Theatre | Written by Sarah Treem
Evolution, Feminism and Destiny collide in Sarah Treem’s (House of Cards,The Affair) poignant play about science, family, and the difficult choices that women face. Why do women menstruate? Modern science has supplied us with the “How”, but no one seems to have answered the “Why”. Rachel, a young grad student in Evolutionary Biology visits Zelda, a pioneer of the field. She posits a radical new hypothesis to answer this very question, which just happens to challenge Zelda’s own ground-breaking work. As the two brilliant women spar over their contrary views on science, career and generational divides, the ulterior motives surrounding their intense meeting slowly begin to unravel…
THE WAR OF 1812
May 09 – 13, 2023 | 7:30pm & 3pm Saturday
Written by Wes Borg and Paul Mather
Wes Borg, Morgan Cranny, Rod Peter Jr and Mike Delamont bring you the funniest history lesson of a lifetime! A young boy hates Canada until the ghost of Pierre Berton takes him on a tour of Canadian History, from the tennis ball battle fields of York to a Laura Secord mega musical, all in a Birchbark Time Canoe!
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde
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