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Playhouse summer season postponed to 2021

April 23, 2020 Phillip Blancher – Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

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 […]

Entertainment

Packed house enjoys Community Living’s delightful Christmas concert

December 23, 2019 W. Gibb – Leader staff

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 […]

Entertainment

Local boys shine in Playhouse hit Christmas show

December 12, 2019 W. Gibb – Leader staff

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 […]

Entertainment

Heartwarming production, Ethan Claymore’s Christmas

December 5, 2019 W. Gibb – Leader staff

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 […]

Entertainment

Leisa Way’s Rock’n’Roll is Here to Stay debuts at UCP

October 17, 2019 W. Gibb – Leader staff

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 […]

Entertainment

Romantic comedy ‘Same Time Next Year’ at UCP

August 29, 2019 Editor

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 […]

Entertainment

Farce rules as Don’t Dress for Dinner opens at UCP

July 4, 2019 W. Gibb – Leader staff

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 […]

Entertainment

Comedy rules in Don’t Dress for Dinner at Upper Canada Playhouse

June 27, 2019 W. Gibb – Leader staff

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 […]

Entertainment

Local actor makes professional debut at Upper Canada Playhouse

November 29, 2018 W. Gibb – Leader staff

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 […]

Entertainment

Playhouse announces 2019 theatre season

November 15, 2018 W. Gibb – Leader staff

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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