Touchstone Theatre News

The State Theatre Center for the Arts welcomes The Bach Choir of Bethlehem to its stage for the first time on March 17, 7:30 PM, for A Celebration of the Choral Art.

Touchstone Theatre opens its 2017-18 season with Philadelphia-based Almanac Dance Circus Theatre in their genre-defying physical theatre masterwork Leaps of Faith & Other Mistakes. The show plays September 28-October 1.

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, celebrates the opening of the Rolling World Premiere (RWP) of Dogs of Rwanda by Sean Christopher Lewis at Out of Hand Theater (September 15-November 18, Atlanta, GA).

Artistic Producer, Donna Spencer is pleased to announce Susan Shank has joined the team at the Firehall Arts Centre as the new General Manager.

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, celebrates the opening of the Rolling World Premiere (RWP) of Dogs of Rwanda by Sean Christopher Lewis at Out of Hand Theater (September 15-November 18, Atlanta, GA).

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE by Arthur Miller plays at American Players Theatre's Touchstone Theatre until October 22, and the critics are weighing in!

American Players Theatre's adaptation of THE MAIDS, loosely based on true events, runs until October 5 at the Touchstone Theatre. Let's see what the critics had to say!

Touchstone Theatre opens its 2017-18 season with Philadelphia-based Almanac Dance Circus Theatre in their genre-defying physical theatre masterwork Leaps of Faith & Other Mistakes. The show plays September 28-October 1.

Humans yearn for what we do not have. It is the trademark of our species. We seem to never be satisfied, always longing for more, better, bigger. Though this play is set a century ago in Russia, it could not be more relevant to our current culture.

Touchstone Theatre gears up for its new season, featuring a collection of original works created by the resident ensemble and presented works created by notable guest artists. Touchstone's 37th season begins in September.

2017 Jessie Award and multiple Fringe Award recipient Rohit Chokhani delves into a blind man's world as he reimagines Anosh Irani's Bombay Black for the Dramatic Works Series at the 2017 Vancouver Fringe Festival from Thursday, September 7 to Saturday, September 16.

Award-winning producer, director, cultural leader and recipient of the 2017 Jessie Award for Significant Artistic Achievement (Large Theatre), Rohit Chokhani, has launched Project SAT (South Asian Theatre) - an initiative aimed at creating a network for developing, touring, producing, and presenting national and international South Asian theatre projects in Canada.

Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of $10,000 to ArtsQuest, Touchstone Theatre and Zoellner Arts Center, for the Cirque It! Festival on July 14-16, 2017. The NEA received 1,728 Art Works applications and will make 1,029 grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. 

Award-winning producer, director, cultural leader and recipient of the 2017 Jessie Award for Significant Artistic Achievement (Large Theatre), Rohit Chokhani, has launched Project SAT (South Asian Theatre) - an initiative aimed at creating a network for developing, touring, producing, and presenting national and international South Asian theatre projects in Canada.

Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of $10,000 to Touchstone Theatre to support the Young Playwrights' Lab, a literary arts program. The NEA received 1,728 Art Works applications and will make 1,029 grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000.

Touchstone Theatre presents a sensory-friendly theatrical performance of DaPooch, or The Story of Poochie's Three Hundred and Seventy-Second Birthday AND How the Hunga Munga Munga SAVED HIS LIFE! on June 20th at 11:00am.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects and partnerships in the NEA's second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017. 

The Filigree Theatre and EVN Productions  of Austin, TX will present the Los Angeles Premiere of critically acclaimed play, ANY NIGHT.

Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of $10,000 to ArtsQuest, Touchstone Theatre and Zoellner Arts Center, for the Cirque It! Festival on July 14-16, 2017. The NEA received 1,728 Art Works applications and will make 1,029 grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. 

For 35 years, the Firehall Arts Centre has been a cultural beacon for the Vancouver arts community, producing and presenting provocative, thought-provoking, compelling, and highly entertaining pieces of work in the heritage building at the corner of Cordova and Gore.