ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

 

Our 10th Anniversary Summer Festival opens with a heartwarming comedy by Norm Foster, Canada’s most performed playwright.

Matinees and Evening Shows, June 13th-25th.

 

BILLET HOST PROGRAM

HELP OUR ARTISTS FIND A HOME FOR THE SUMMER

THE SONG OF SAMUEL

Join us on the journey towards a full production of this compelling new work.

 

 

 

FEATURED

OUR 2023 SUMMER SEASON!

On A First Name Basis

On a First Name Basis

    by Norm Foster

June 13- 25, 2023

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Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Truscott

Innocence Lost: A Play About

Steven Truscott

by Beverley Cooper

July 12 – 29, 2023

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The Living End

The Living End

or

Madame Winifred’s Circus

 of  Wonders

Created by Andy Massingham and

the Summer Company

August 15-26, 2023

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*PLEASE NOTE – OUR TENT FOR THE 10TH LAUNCH EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. NEW DATE COMING SOON!

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

 Theatre on the Ridge acknowledges that we are situated within the Williams Treaties and the traditional territories of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, which includes the Algonquin, Ojibway, Mississauga, Chippewa, Odawa, Delaware and Potawatomi peoples. We recognize that land acknowledgements are not enough. We must pursue truth, reconciliation, decolonization and allyship in an ongoing effort to make right with all our relations. In our work here, we seek to honour the generations of Indigenous Elders and knowledge keepers who have gone before us, as well as those yet to come.

IN DEVELOPMENT

The Song of Samuel

THE SONG OF SAMUEL

Theatre on the Ridge commissioned actor and writer Uju Umenyi to create a play inspired by the life of Professor Samuel Stout, the first Black resident of Port Perry. The play will explore hidden stories, unpacking the ways history is written and erased, and seeks to share Samuel Stout’s experience of racism in a small town in Ontario. The first reading of the script was held during the 2022 Ontario Culture Days Festival.

 

 

COMMUNITY

First Read Club

CONNECTING SENIORS

Theatre on the Ridge has been awarded funding through the federal government’s New Horizons for Seniors program to help in creating opportunities for seniors to reconnect with their communities through shared experiences of learning, creating, and appreciating a variety of theatre related activities, workshops and outings.