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Upper Canada Playhouse cancels second concert and suspends season until May 4th

April 9, 2020 Editor

MORRISBURG – “We’re in good company,” said Upper Canada Playhouse Artistic Director Donnie Bowes. “All the theatres on Broadway are having to change their plans as well. We’re all assessing when we can start up […]

Entertainment

Iroquois-Matilda Lions show cancelled

March 20, 2020 Editor

MORRISBURG – The State of Emergency announced March 17th by the government of Ontario has mandated the temporary shut down of all theatres, cinemas, and concert venues. Sadly, it is necessary to confirm that the […]

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

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

Upper Canada Playhouse’s Lunenburg a comic gem

August 8, 2019 W. Gibb – Leader staff

MORRISBURG – How do men and women really relate to each other? Really, how do they? In his new comedy Lunenburg, a play with a big heart, Norm Foster explores that question and does it […]

Entertainment

Don’t Dress for Dinner serves up laughs at Upper Canada Playhouse

July 11, 2019 W. Gibb – Leader staff

MORRISBURG – Subtlety is really, really wasted in a farce. No-holds-barred nonsense absolutely has to be the order of the day. On-stage action must delivered at a break-neck, comic pace. And neither the actors nor […]

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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

Where You Are – warm comedy at Playhouse

June 17, 2019 W. Gibb – Leader staff

MORRISBURG – “When you love someone, you want them where you are.” Where You Are, which just opened the new season at Upper Canada Playhouse, is a production focused on love. Of course, love can […]

News

New arts program moves a step forward

December 6, 2018 P. Blancher – Leader staff

SOUTH DUNDAS – A new arts program in South Dundas is taking another step forward. The brainchild of Reverend Jon Martin, parish priest with the Anglican Parish of South Dundas, the program has received funding […]

Entertainment

Looking back on stand-out season at the Playhouse

March 6, 2017 W. Gibb – Leader staff

MORRISBURG – Donnie Bowes and the staff of Upper Canada Playhouse are eagerly looking forward to a summer  of outstanding theatre as April, 2017,  and the first show of the year, fast approaches. However, there […]

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