COME FROM AWAY Will Come to the Segal Centre in November

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will present Come From Away, the Tony Award-winning Canadian musical, in a brand-new co-production with Thousand Islands Playhouse, fresh from its sold-out run in Gananoque. Scheduled to play at the Sylvan Adams Theatre from November 22 to December 13, 2026, the run has already been extended until December 20th.

It's already the Segal's fastest-selling show in years before the first preview. A true story of kindness between strangers, it's the kind of show you'll want to see with the people you love this holiday season. With book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, the production is directed and choreographed by Stephanie Graham, with music direction by Benjamin Kersey.

On September 11, 2001, 38 planes were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, after U.S. airspace closed. Close to 7,000 passengers landed in a small rural town that had only hours to make room for them. For five days, the people of Gander fed, housed and took them in as their own. Come From Away tells this true story through 12 performers playing both the locals and the stranded 'come from aways'. Built on interviews with the people who lived it, the show moves between fear, humour and kindness to a folk-rock score driven by fiddle, bodhrán and bouzouki.

Come From Away started in Canada, at Sheridan College's Canadian Music Theatre Project, before going on to Broadway, the West End and stages around the world. Twenty-five years after the events it portrays, the Segal brings a newly designed and conceived version to Montreal. 'There are certain stories that remind us not only who we are, but who we can be. Come From Away is one of those stories. It is also a distinctly Canadian story, which makes it especially meaningful to bring to our stage,' said Lisa Rubin, Artistic and Executive Director of the Segal Centre.

The company of 12 brings together Robert Ball (Bob), Montreal's own Zach Counsil (Oz), Stuart Dowling (Claude), Jen Fong (Janice), Kyle Golemba (Kevin T), Amir Haidar (Kevin J), Mark Harapiak (Nick), fellow Montrealer Sharon James (Hannah), Michelle Nash (Bonnie), Denise Oucharek (Diane), Alison J Palmer (Beulah) and Jessica Sherman (Beverley). Haidar returns to the show after the original Canadian production. Rosie Callaghan, Duff MacDonald and Christopher Ning complete the company as standbys. Benjamin Kersey leads an all-Montreal band from the keyboard. He is joined by Vanessa Marcoux on violin, Peter Colantonio on drums, Alexandra Remondini on acoustic and electric bass, Seán Dagher on acoustic guitar, bouzouki and mandolin, Jason Field on acoustic, nylon-string and electric guitars, Catherine Varvaro on bodhrán and percussion, and Ben Powers on whistles, Irish flutes and uilleann pipes.