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To October 29
Sex Please, We’re 60!
By Michael & Susan Parker
Herongate Barn Theatre
All Sundays are matinees: 12:00 pm arrival, show 2:00 pm
Hilarious and sexy seniors get their viagra pills mixed up while on vacation and then the
fun begins... Sexy and 60! Go figure! Herongate does it right again with this crowd
pleasing comedy! |
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October 20, 21, 22 at 8:00 pm
The Borelians Community Theatre: Our Town
Town Hall, 1873 Centre for the Performing Arts, 302 Queen St., Port Perry
By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Ruth Smith
Produced by Graeme Powell
Our Town explores the lives of people living in a small, quintessentially American town. It won Thornton Wilder the Pulitzer Prize in 1938, and has since become a classic of the theatre, widely performed all across North America. The show chronicles the life of a small town in New Hampshire from the years 1901-1913, centring on the budding romance, and eventual marriage of Emily Webb and George Gibb. The play uses minimal sets and props, and is narrated by a character known as the Stage Manager, a kindly soul who introduces us to all of the wonderful, and ordinary folk of this ordinary small town. The play is funny, moving, tender, and ultimately profound. A wonderful theatrical experience to be shared by everyone.
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| November |
November 4 - December 31
WORLD PREMIERE! Rock N’ A Hard Place
By Michael LeBlanc
Herongate Barn TheatreAll Sundays are matinees: 12:00 pm arrival, show 2:00 pm
As part of a grand revival plan for the theatre, the managers have contracted famous
classical pianist James Carmichael to headline a big event concert, but, confusion seems
the order of the day when an aging has-been rock star who shares the same name turns up
intent on re-starting his career! Herongate is delighted to offer the world premier of
this hilarious new comedy by Michael LeBlanc! Fun situations made even funnier with a
great story and actors will have you rocking in your seats.. with laughter! Do not miss
this one! |
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November 10 - 19
I Hate Hamlet
A comedy by Paul Rudnick
Ajax Community Theatre
A young and successful television actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. With his television career in limbo, the actor is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet onstage, but there's one problem: he hates Hamlet. His dilemma deepens with the entrance of John Barrymore's ghost, who arrives intoxicated and in full costume to the apartment that once was his. The contrast between the two actors, the towering, dissipated Barrymore whose Hamlet was the greatest of his time, and Andrew Rally, hot young television star, leads to a wildly funny duel over women, art, success, duty, television, and yes, the apartment. |
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November 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27* (2pm matinee)
Annie
Book by Thomas Meehan, Music by Charles Strouse & Lyrics by Martin Charnin
Oshawa Little Theatre
Leapin' Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes centre stage in one of the world's
best-loved musicals. Annie is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her
parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by
the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils
Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds
a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell
and a lovable mutt named Sandy. |
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| December |
December 1, 2, 3, 4*, 8, 9, 10 (2pm matinee)
Annie
Book by Thomas Meehan, Music by Charles Strouse & Lyrics by Martin Charnin
Oshawa Little Theatre
Leapin' Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes centre stage in one of the world's
best-loved musicals. Annie is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her
parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by
the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils
Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds
a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell
and a lovable mutt named Sandy. |
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| January |
January 4 - 8
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL TO PRESENT QUIDAM IN OSHAWA
Seven Performances ONLY at the General Motors Centre
General Motors Centre
www.cirquedusoleil.com/quidam
Quidam had its world premiere in Montreal under the Big Top in April 1996. Since that time, the production has toured on five continents and been experienced by millions of people. In December 2010, Quidam embarked on a new journey, performing the same captivating production, but now in arenas throughout North America. The international cast features 52 world-class acrobats, musicians, singers and characters. Young Zoé is bored; her parents, distant and apathetic, ignore her. Her life has lost all meaning. Seeking to fill the void of her existence, she slides into an imaginary world— the world of Quidam—where she meets characters who encourage her to free her soul. |
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January 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 8:00pm
January 22, 3:00pm
Durham Shoestring Performers: Beautiful City
Arts Resource Centre, 45 Queen St., Oshawa
by George F. Walker
directed by Carolyn Wilson
Stage Managers: Rick Bunting, Tracy Magee-Graham
Gina Mae Sabatini and Mary Raft would never agree on beauty, living as they do at opposite margins of the city. But penthouse or back alley, their families come first when it comes to closing a deal. A fast-paced comedy that blends a little Robin Hood with a lot of street smarts to figure out what it takes to succeed in the urban jungle. |
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January 26 -February 4
Dial "M" For Murder
A thriller by Frederick Knott
Ajax Community Theatre
Tony Wendice has married his wife, Margot, for her money and now plans to murder her for the same reason. He arranges the perfect murder. He blackmails a scoundrel he used to know into strangling her for a fee of one thousand pounds, and arranges a brilliant alibi for himself. Unfortunately…the murderer gets murdered and the victim survives. But this doesn't baffle the husband: he sees his hireling's death as an opportunity to have his wife convicted for the murder of the man who tried to murder her.
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January 27 – March 17
When The Cat's Away
By Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
Herongate Barn Theatre
All Sundays are matinees: 12:00 pm arrival, show 2:00 pm
Based on a very popular British sit com, this riotously funny play is classic British sex farce ... When Mildred and Ethel go off on a trip to Paris, the “mice will play.” Egged on by Ethel’s philandering husband Humphrey Pomfrey, George agrees to invite two charming little sex kittens over. Well, you know already what happens next, don’t you - the wives come home prematurely. |
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| February |
February 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12*, 16, 17 ,18 (*2pm matinee )
To Kill a Mockingbird
Based upon Harper Lee’s novel; dramatized by Christopher Sergel
Oshawa Little Theatre
Scout, a young girl in a quiet southern town, is about to experience the dramatic events
that will affect the rest of her life. She and brother Jem are being raised by their
widower father Atticus and by a strong-minded housekeeper Calpurnia. Wide-eyed Scout is
fascinated with the sensitively revealed people of her small town but, from the start,
there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface. The black people of the community
have a special feeling about Scout's father and she doesn't know why. A few of her white
friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesn't understand this either. Unpleasant
things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. Atticus, a lawyer,
explains that he's defending a young black man wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Since
this is causing such an upset, Scout wants to know why he's doing it: "Because if I
didn't," her father replies, "I couldn't hold my head up." Atticus goes on
to prepare Scout for the trouble to come: "We're fighting our friends. But remember
this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends." Things do get
bitter to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the
man he's defending and confronts an angry mob. Horrified, Scout projects herself into this
confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity. Atticus
fights his legal battle with integrity and conviction to a result that is part defeat,
part triumph. As Atticus comes out of the courthouse, the deeply moved town minister tells
Scout, "Stand up. Your father's passing!" This play is a meaningful work of art
based on a story of timeless relevance that continues to move audiences 50 years after its
first telling. |
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February 23, 24, 25
March 1, 2, 3, 4
The Borelians Community Theatre: Stepping Out
Town Hall, 1873 Centre for the Performing Arts, 302 Queen St., Port Perry
By Richard Harris
Directed by Vivian Lee
Eight individuals from disparate backgrounds and with differing motivations attend the same weekly tap dancing class in a dingy North London church hall. Despite the students at first treating the classes as social occasions, and showing little co-ordination, they later develop a level of skill and cohesiveness. The dance routines are the background for the focus of the play, the relationship and interaction of different people. This is a warm-hearted, and at time, hilarious comedy with a musical climax that will have you ready to put on your own pair of dancing shoes and join in on the fun!
The original production of Stepping Out premiered in 1984. The play went to the West End, opening at the Duke of York’s Theatre, on 24th September 1984, and ran for nearly three years until 1 July 1987. It was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy in 1984.
A revised musical version of Stepping Out, One Night a Week, with book by Richard Harris, lyrics by Mary Stewart-David, and music by Denis King, was released in 2010.
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| March |
March 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 8:00pm
Durham Shoestring Performers: Lucy
Arts Resource Centre, 45 Queen St., Oshawa
By Damien Atkins
Directed by Andra Kelly
Stage Manager: Christy Chase
Can an anthropologist who is happiest alone on a dig become mother to a daughter whose very existence she has managed to ignore for a long time? Vivian’s world faces major adaptation when her ex-husband insists that she must take temporary custody of their autistic daughter. Getting to know Lucy becomes Vivian’s biggest evolutionary leap yet. |
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March 23 – May 12
Storm Warning
By Norm Foster
Herongate Barn Theatre
All Sundays are matinees: 12:00 pm arrival, show 2:00 pm
Set in 1953, Jack is reclusive and Emma is brassy & bold. They meet one weekend in September and sparks fly. Canadian playwright Norm Foster is the master of romantic comedies and this is really one of his finest. |
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March 29, 30, 31
Chess
Book by Richard Nelson. Lyrics by Tim Rice. Music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny
Andersson.
Oshawa Little Theatre
The collaborators on Chess are giants of rock music and rock musicals and they have
created a complex rock opera that played to full Broadway houses and standing ovations.
Here the ancient game becomes a metaphor for romantic rivalries, competitive gamesmanship,
super power politics and international intrigues. The pawns in this drama form a love
triangle: the loutish American chess star, the earnest Russian champion and a Hungarian
American female assistant who arrives at the international chess match in Bangkok with the
American but falls for the Russian. From Bangkok to Budapest the players, lovers,
politicians, and spies manipulate and are manipulated to the pulse of a monumental rock
score that includes "One Night in Bangkok" and "Heaven Help My Heart." |
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| April |
April 1*, 5 ,6 ,7 ,12 ,13 ,14
Chess
Book by Richard Nelson. Lyrics by Tim Rice. Music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny
Andersson.
Oshawa Little Theatre
The collaborators on Chess are giants of rock music and rock musicals and they have
created a complex rock opera that played to full Broadway houses and standing ovations.
Here the ancient game becomes a metaphor for romantic rivalries, competitive gamesmanship,
super power politics and international intrigues. The pawns in this drama form a love
triangle: the loutish American chess star, the earnest Russian champion and a Hungarian
American female assistant who arrives at the international chess match in Bangkok with the
American but falls for the Russian. From Bangkok to Budapest the players, lovers,
politicians, and spies manipulate and are manipulated to the pulse of a monumental rock
score that includes "One Night in Bangkok" and "Heaven Help My Heart."(*please
note that the 2pm matinee will be on the first weekend of performances to avoid Easter
Sunday conflict ) |
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April 26 - May 5
Outlaw
A comedy by Norm Foster
Ajax Community Theatre
A young Canadian homesteader travelling far from home finds himself accused of murder in the state of Kansas in 1871. With only his wits to defend himself, he turns the law of the land – and the men hellbent on enforcing it – upside down. This authentic western is a unique take on the days when guns were the law. |
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| May |
May 18 – July 7
Leading Ladies
By Ken Ludwig
Herongate Barn Theatre
All Sundays are matinees: 12:00 pm arrival, show 2:00 pm
Hilarious comedy about two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, who find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces! Romantic entanglements abound, especially when Leo falls head-over-petticoat in love with the old lady’s vivacious niece, Meg, who’s engaged to the local minister. Meg knows that there’s a wide world out there, but it’s not until she meets “Maxine and Stephanie” that she finally gets a taste of it. |
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