Touchstone Theatre News

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

Tonight’s festivities are especially exciting, James DeVita’s “An Improbable Fiction”! Six improbable Shakespearean characters hang out at The Boar’s Head Tavern during the plague

American Players Theatre's in-person season began May 14 with Katori Hall's The Mountaintop in the 201-seat indoor Touchstone Theatre.

Fresh Voices has been a staple of Touchstone's apprentice program, which has fostered more than 70 theatre artists over the last 20 years. This season marks the second year of Touchstone's partnership with Moravian College, converting the longstanding apprenticeship into an MFA-granting program.

Touchstone Theatre presents the sixteenth year of its acclaimed Young Playwrights' Festival. This showcase of new plays written by local elementary and middle school students will take place on May 22, 2021.

American Players Theatre has announced a new play development program, New Voices: Creating the Classics of Tomorrow. As an organization that has dedicated 40 years to classical plays, the APT company has been questioning what exactly 'classical' means today. This new play development program is a first step in addressing this question.

Touchstone Theatre presents the second Latinx Block Party/Fiesta Latina of their socially-distanced 2020-21 season, on Saturday, April 24, 6-9p.

Touchstone Theatre announces AN IMAGINED AMERICA - a living museum bringing history to life through a re-imagination of what America is, was, and can/may be.

Jenine Krause and David Scandiffio, Co-Chairs of the Young People’s Theatre (YPT) Board of Directors, today announced the appointment of Herbie Barnes as the next Artistic Director of YPT.

Touchstone Theatre has announced PIE, a webcast event of an original production by Santa Fe-based company Theater Grottesco. The show will stream on February 5, 2021 at 8p, with a live talkback broadcast immediately following.

Touchstone Theatre announces Letters from Far, a new science fiction story told through a series of mailed packages. The production will unfold weekly, arriving in audience members' mailboxes from February 15 to March 15, 2021.

Touchstone Theatre announces Christmas City Follies XXI, the theatre's annual holiday-themed variety show, to be presented online for 2020. Follies will premiere on YouTube on December 20, 2020 at 7pm with a watch party and then be available to view through January 2, 2021.

Touchstone Theatre will wrap up its COVID-friendly, social-distance-safe Festival UnBound 2020 with two artistic offeringsa?" Tales of Hope and Resistance, a collection of stories from around the world, presented in music and shadow puppetry (October 9); and Dictators 4 Dummiesa?? and more!, a retrospective of Touchstone's musical political satires of years past and a film premiere (October 16).

Today, Pacific Theatre's Board of Directors announced the appointment of  Kaitlin Williams as the company's new Artistic Director. 

In addition to the previously announced Music in the Courtyard series, taking place weekends until September 27, the Firehall Arts Centre is moving forward with a reimagined Fall/Winter 2020 program. Ticket prices start at $20 and are available online or by phone at 604.689.0926.

Touchstone Theatre will begin its COVID-friendly, social-distance-safe 2020-21 season with a return to Festival UnBound, a celebration of Lehigh Valley arts and community discourse that premiered in October 2019. This yeara??s festival will feature weekly events running from September 4-October 16, 2020.

The newly minted Lehigh Valley Song Project, an initiative bringing together musical artists from across the Lehigh Valley, premieres an original, collaboratively-created video performance.

Pivoting to the current new normal, the 38th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards were celebrated virtually this year, acknowledging the excellence in professional theatre and saluting the talent who contribute to Vancouver's dynamic theatre landscape.

To honour Vancouver's vibrant artistic community during this challenging time, the 2020 Jessie Theatre Award Nominations were announced virtually, for the first time, on Monday, June 8th, hosted by the mother daughter duo Amanda Sum (seen this season in Chicken Girl and East Van Panto) and Linda Leung.

Touchstone Theatre's Fresh Voices showcase returns to premiere new original works from June 2-12, 2020. In light of recent events concerning public health and safety, these performances have been developed to take place remotely and will feature both downloadable and streaming content.