MORRISBURG – The curtain has dropped on the Upper Canada Playhouse’s 2020 summer season. The playhouse announced April 20th that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, its four-show summer season is cancelled. The four scheduled shows […]
MORRISBURG – “Given the chance I could learn how to dance/like wildflowers in the wind./Given the chance I will shine.” Those words taken from Claude Plamondon’s beautiful song, The Flower, certainly formed an underlying theme […]
MORRISBURG – Three special young actors took the time last week after a packed Tuesday matinee to meet with The Leader on the set of the Upper Canada Playhouse hit, Ethan Claymore’s Christmas. They talked […]
MORRISBURG – In this age of computer generated, neon-glitzy, prepackaged, assembly line Christmas entertainment, it’s easy to forget just how deeply appealing and how touching a real story about real people can be. Ethan Claymore’s […]
MORRISBURG – One of Upper Canada Playhouse’s favourite performing artists is coming to town October 15-24, to debut a fantastic new show. Singer/writer/musician Leisa Way is bringing her exciting production, Leisa Way’s Rock’n’Roll is Here […]
MORRISBURG – Same Time Next Year first opened on Broadway, in 1975, to very little fanfare. All that soon changed. Bernard Slade’s Same Time Next Year won numerous critical and theatrical awards, and went on […]
MORRISBURG – Director Donnie Bowes likes to “mix things up” in a season. Following the run of the Playhouse’s hit opening show, Where You Are, he is bringing audiences an outrageous, hilarious new production with […]
MORRISBURG – Audiences are in for a rollicking, comic time as Upper Canada Playhouse stages its second show of the 2019 season, Marc Camoletti/Robin Hawdon’s classic farce, Don’t Dress for Dinner. The golden rule of […]
MORRISBURG – When Upper Canada Playhouse’s new production, The Christmas Express, opens on November 30, look for a local face among the talented cast. Jamie Wilson, 15 years old, daughter of Jim Wilson and Krista […]
MORRISBURG – “It’s going to be a season full of great plays and great music,” said Upper Canada Playhouse artistic director, Donnie Bowes, shortly after announcing the theatre’s exciting 2019 season. This year, the Playhouse […]
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