Miklós László,
Adapted by Adam Pettle & Brenda Robins

On Stage Now!

By great demand, the award-winning, heart-warming, holiday hit returns! In this uproarious comedy for the whole family - that forms the basis for both The Shop Around the Corner and You've Got Mail - two shop clerks kindle a tender love affair through anonymous letters while they unwittingly squabble with one another in person.

Tickets: $32 - $68

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Troupes will offer beginner and advanced level workshops throughout the Festival. Don't miss the opportunity to learn from some of the best improvisers in the world! Be sure to book early as space is limited.

$50 beginner / $65 advanced

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Over the course of the Festival each troupe will perform their signature shows, and be paired with another troupe in a mash-up performance for some border-crossing improvisational antics!

$20 adult / $15 TD Comfortable Price for Students (valid full-time student ID required)

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Robert E. Sherwood

On Stage January 23!

A cast of wonderfully eccentric and international guests - countesses, arms dealers, showgirls, revolutionaries, charlatans and lovers - spend a fateful weekend in a resort hotel in the Swiss Alps. While songs are sung and dances danced and loves rekindled, the dark clouds of war come rolling in.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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William Wycherley

On Stage February 5 - 15

William Wycherley’s comedy is one of the supreme delights of the Restoration. Deemed too risqué for 18th and 19th century audiences, The Country Wife will have audiences reveling in the joys of this delicious farce.

Tickets: $18 (including all fees and taxes)

Alan Ayckbourn

On stage February 10 for a limited run!

As seen from the dining room, a secretive dirty weekend away for the affable librarian Norman turns into a series of misunderstandings, trysts, and hilarious revelations when his wife unexpectedly arrives, asking questions. A comic feast where chairs and food are scarce, but laughs are served aplenty.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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Alan Ayckbourn

On stage February 11 for a limited run!

Shifting the action to the living room, infidelity, changing stories, and confusion mean no one is relaxing with their feet up! As the fallout from Norman's opportunism spreads to everyone in the house, the living room sparks with life, controversy, and love, all wrapped up in a bearskin rug.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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Alan Ayckbourn

On stage February 14 for a limited run!

Hilarity makes its way outside! As the chaos associated with Norman’s philandering rages inside the house, the garden provides a less than ideal place for reflection and calm. In this brilliant third instalment, Norman gormlessly contemplates the moon, the stars, and his pyjamas, hoping for a joyous roll in the grass!

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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Why Not Theatre

On Stage March 19!

"This is theatre at its best - intimate, authentic, hilarious" - SPOTLIGHT TORONTO

Award-winning actor, director, and producer Ravi Jain shares the stage with his real-life mother in A Brimful of Asha - a story of family, arranged marriage, and the quest for the perfect bride. Just as Ravi's mother, Asha, feels time is running out for her son to find a suitable wife, Ravi feels he isn't ready for marriage. "You don’t get to choose any member of your family. Why do you need to choose your wife?" Asha asks.

Tickets: $25 - $55 (price includes all fees and taxes)
Special Offer for 2014 Subscribers: $40 (Offer valid until December 31, 2013. Price includes all fees and taxes.)

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VideoCabaret, written by Michael Hollingsworth

On stage April 4

THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF THE SMALL HUTS, 1968-1972

As the centenary of Canada’s Confederation approaches, Quebec separatists crank up the violence. On a stage lit by terrorist bombings, Professor Trudeau pirouettes to power.

The acid-tripping rock-throwing Sixties are conjured up by a master storyteller with the magical stagecraft of the 2013 Dora Award-winning VideoCabaret ensemble.

Tickets: $25 - $55 (price includes all fees and taxes)
Special Offer for 2014 Subscribers: $40 (Offer valid until December 31, 2013. Price includes all fees and taxes.)

Tank House Theatre - Seating is general admission

Tom Murphy

On Stage March 28!

In Tom Murphy’s masterpiece, the services of self-titled "Dynamatologist" JPW King, an Englishman living in Dublin, are retained by a mysterious Irish building contractor who wants to sing like the famed operatic tenor Beniamino Gigli. King, anything but a voice teacher, and the mysterious and dangerous Irishman begin a process of exploration unearthing the power of the mind in their mutual search for salvation.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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Tennessee Williams

On Stage April 8 - 19

The Rose Tattoo is larger than life - a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama - it has been called a love letter from Tennessee Williams to anyone who has ever been in love or ever will be.

Tickets: $18 (including all fees and taxes)

Jean Anouilh

On Stage April 9 - 19

A delightful tale of twin brothers, a rich heiress (engaged to one of the brothers but desperately in love with his heartless sibling) and a ballet dancer who has been brought to a French chateau to further a plan of the coldly calculating brother.

Tickets: $18 (including all fees and taxes)

W. Somerset Maugham, adapted by Vern Thiessen

On Stage April 15!

A broken man. A damaged woman. An impossible love. Considered one of the greatest novels ever written, Of Human Bondage is an epic tale of loss, lust, obsession, and the pursuit of beauty in a world dominated by war, greed, and poverty. Adapted for the stage for the very first time by Governor General's Award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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Athol Fugard

On Stage April 30!

In an archly conservative village in Apartheid-Era South Africa, an elderly white woman has turned her house and yard into a highly personal and unorthodox work of art with contentious results. This play, by one of the great humanist playwrights of the 20th Century, was inspired by a real-life story, and examines the nature of friendship, the necessity of self-expression, and the struggle of a free-spirited individual in an intolerant society.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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Reginald Rose

On Stage June 11!

The fate of a young man accused of murdering his own father lies in the hands of twelve strangers crowded into an oppressively hot, claustrophobic deliberation room. A single dissenting voice rings out "not guilty" planting the seed of reasonable doubt and unraveling what was seemingly an open-and-shut case. Tempers flare and human nature is tested in this classic jury-room drama.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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Tony Kushner

On Stage June 12!

A Multi-Play Experience: Angels in America Parts I and II are best seen chronologically.

Encompassing the lives of seven individuals as they negotiate New York City during the AIDS crisis that wracked the world in the 1980s, Kushner looks to a deeply human series of reactions to a seemingly indiscriminate epidemic, and offers spiritual outlet for the redemption and reclamation of their souls. Mature content.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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Tony Kushner

On Stage June 13!

A Multi-Play Experience: Angels in America Parts I and II are best seen chronologically.

In this stunning finale Kushner brings an other-worldly, angelic presence to protagonist Prior Walter as he and his fellow sufferers negotiate how their lives will either progress or end. Palliative confessions, realisations, and delcarations of faith give way to hope for the future and a lesson in humanity. Mature content.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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RARE Theatre Company in association with Soulpepper Theatre

On stage July 2

Borne is a dynamic, illuminating piece of theatre created by award-winning playwright Judith Thompson (RARE, Young Centre 2013) with a brilliant company of twelve performers living in wheelchairs. This is a play that proves to us that the impossible is indeed possible.

Tickets: $25 - $49 (price includes all fees and taxes)
Special Offer for 2014 Subscribers: $35 (Offer valid until December 31, 2013. Price includes all fees and taxes).

Tank House Theatre - Seating is general admission

Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur

On Stage August 7!

In one of the greatest comedies ever written, the sanctimonious Tartuffe feigns virtue and piety, deceiving his host Orgon while attempting to seduce his wife and gain an inheritance. A deeply humourous tale of lust, religious hypocrisy and the triumph of good over evil.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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Ben Power

On Stage August 14!

In this deeply moving re-working of Shakespeare's text, an elderly Romeo and Juliet reminisce on their lives together, reveling in the joys of love while charting a course through the inevitable passage of time, aging, and the final stages of life. "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite."

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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David Young

On Stage August 27!

Prodigy, Perfectionist, Performer and Puritan: The iconic Canadian artist Glenn Gould. Glenn is a fascinating and moving look at the music and mythology of an eternally captivating figure. Framed by Gould’s two definitive versions of Bach’s The Goldberg Variations, Young uses a theme-and-variation compositional structure to examine the arc of the Gould’s life and the breadth of his character.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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Arthur Miller

On Stage August 30!

     "Outstanding" - THE GLOBE AND MAIL
"Soulpepper at the top of its game" - TORONTO STAR

Salem, Mass., 1692: a small, devout town is thrown into chaos with accusations of witchcraft and spiritual possession. Miller’s explosive account of the famous Salem witch trials caused a sensation with its parallels to the Communist scares of the 50s, and remains one of his most enduring classics.

Tickets: $37 - $74 (price includes all fees and taxes)

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