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October 9-12 and 16-19, 2025

2025-26 Line Up!

Yaga

by Kat Sandler

Produced by Two Bees Productions

October 9-12 and 16-19, 2025

A private investigator and a small-town detective go on a twisted
journey to solve the disappearance of the heir to a yogurt empire.
As they journey through a dark, small town into a darker forest,
they meet curious characters along the way. Yaga is a modern story
based on the Slavic folklore of Baba Yaga.

This genre-bending comedic fairy tale meets thrilling whodunit
gives voice to an antihero of epic proportions while interrogating
how her story has historically been told by men. From now on,
you’ll remember the name Baba Yaga for the right reasons.

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Produced by Fatal Fem Theatre

November 20-23 and 27-30, 2025

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist re-envisioning of Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office at Queen's University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down.

by Peace Akintade

Produced by So.Glad Arts

January 8-11 and 15-18, 2026

The Wives. The Concubines. The Ritual. is a three-act dark romanticism that tells the story of five of King Solomon's three hundred concubines, left behind during his extended campaign, overthrowing their oppressive existence through Lilith's ritual, and transforming their harem into a sanctuary of freedom and forbidden desire.

Sabra, Kalila, Ereni, Ziva, and Naima embody a metaphor of queerness, rebellion, and Sapphic exploration challenging the prescribed roles imposed upon them by their marriage alliance with Solomon. Inspired 1 Kings 11:1-8, the play reimagines the biblical narrative of Solomon's foreign concubines "turning his heart away," not as a tale of idolatry and condemnation, but as a bold reclamation of love and identity. Through whispered conversations and clandestine touches, they explore the forbidden: sapphic desire, the power of shared vulnerability, and the possibility of a life beyond their imposed roles.

The Boat

Produced by Highway 55 Productions

February 26-March 1 and March 5-8, 2026

The Boat tells the story of Carmen and Jane, two doctors in the 1960s, who have set up a boat clinic off the coast of Nova Scotia, in international waters, and under the flag of a country in which abortion is not a crime. There, they offer pregnant women a safe environment in which to make a choice. But not everyone who boards the boat is telling the truth.

Assassins

by John Weidman & Stephen Sondheim

Produced by Sorry/Grateful Productions

April 16-19 and 23-26, 2026

A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Sondheim's signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of America's culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America's four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing and alarmingly funny.

Using the framing device of an all-American, yet sinister, carnival game, Assassins portrays a group of historical figures who attempted (successfully or not) to assassinate presidents of the United States, and explores what their presence in American history says about the ideals of their country.