Touchstone Theatre News

Touchstone Theatre presents the return of the Latinx Block Party/¡Fiesta Latina! on Saturday, April 30, 6-9p with doors open at 5:30p. This open-air celebration of local Latinx community and culture will take place on Touchstone's outdoor Barrio Stage and is free to attend.

Touchstone Theatre has been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic.

Touchstone Theatre presents its world premiere production of OMINOUS SOUNDS AT THE RIVER CROSSING; or, Another f**king Dinner Party Play by Governor General award-winning playwright Jason Sherman at the Performance Works stage on Granville Island, March 6 - 13 (Opening March 9 @ 7:30pm).

Touchstone Theatre presents the world-premiere of a third and final chapter in the Kitchen Chronicles, a multi-year story-gathering and performance project led by Mary Wright, to be performed February 10-20, 2022. Shows will take place in Touchstone's black box theatre.

Touchstone Theatre announces Shadows in Steam, the second in their “Letters from Far” series, a storytelling experience told through packages in the mail. The production will unfold weekly, sent to audience members' mailboxes from February 15 to March 21, 2022.

The Firehall Arts Centre is partnering with Touchstone Theatre and the 2022 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival to present Makambe K Simamba’s Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers from Thursday, January 20 to Saturday, January 22, 2022.

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (PuSh) presents its 18th annual edition from January 20 to February 6, 2022 at various venues across the Lower Mainland and select programming online. PuSh is Vancouver's signature, mid-winter cultural event, taking place each January in theatres and venues across the city.

American Players Theatre will hold the first performance of The Gift of the Magi in the Touchstone Theatre on November 26, with opening night on November 28 at 6:00 pm.

Today, Touchstone Theatre unveiled its “Let There Be Lights” 2021/22 SEASON, a dynamic lineup featuring four daring Canadian works, three of which are World Premieres - a testament to Touchstone's ongoing commitment to new Canadian play development.

Touchstone Theatre announces Christmas City Follies XXII, the theatre's annual holiday-themed variety show, to be performed December 2-19, 2021. Shows will take place in Touchstone's home black box theatre. 

American Players Theatre (APT) has announced the 2022 season lineup, including five plays originally slated to run in the 2020 season, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Touchstone Theatre will welcome audiences back to live theatre with Lights by Adam Grant Warren, its first production since the 2020 Covid-19 shutdown, and the thematic flagship for their forthcoming season “Let There Be Lights” which heralds a brave return to the stage after a challenging eighteen months.

The Firehall Arts Centre has announced its 39th season, and Artistic Producer Donna Spencer has proudly programmed it as a Reunion Season.

The Firehall Arts Centre has announced its 39th season, and Artistic Producer Donna Spencer has proudly programmed it as a Reunion Season. The Firehall’s 2021-22 Reunion Season opens with the world premiere of Raven Spirit Dance’s Chapter 21 from September 29 to October 3.

Touchstone Theatre opens its 2021-22 season with the third edition of Festival UnBound, a five-day celebration (September 29-October 3, 2021) of visual arts, live music, participatory dance, original theatre, and community dialogue shaped by Lehigh Valley community members for a unique, hyper-local festival going experience.

Fourteen months after it debuted during a summer of protests and a pandemic, a socially-distanced collaboration of dozens of musicians from across the Lehigh Valley is going for a regional Emmy award.

The 2022 festival program will take place from January 20 to February 6, 2022 and will include work presented with long-standing partners such as The Dance Centre, Theatre Replacement, Music on Main, Touchstone Theatre, The Firehall Arts Centre, SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs, and others.

American Players Theatre presents a new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline as part of its summer season. 

It was another beautiful day up The Hill. Today’s picnic menu included canned cocktails (they’re better than you’d think), fried chicken and cholate mousse tort from an area café. It did not, unfortunately, include any Cognac.

An Iliad featuring Jim DeVita and Alicia Storin opened at American Players Theatre on June 25 and will run through August 15.