The Black Drum

By Adam Pottle
Subjects: Disability Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Political Theatre, Musicals, Dance, Death, Grief, and Loss, Deaf Theatre
Casting: 5 f, 2 m, 3 dancers

Hailed as the world’s first Deaf musical—told entirely in American Sign Language and Signed Music—The Black Drum revolves around Joan and her journey to healing after the death of her wife, Karen. ...

Reasonable Doubt

By Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan
Introduction by Maria Campbell
Subjects: Verbatim Theatre, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Musicals, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Death, Grief & Loss, History, Rural Settings
Casting: 6 roles

A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with ...

A Perfect Bowl of Pho

By Nam Nguyen
Subjects: (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights, History, Ontario Playwrights, Musicals, Comedy
Casting: 12 roles
Duration: 80 minutes

Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup ...

When Words Sing

Edited by Julie Salverson
Subjects: Award Winners, Musicals, Anthologies, Theatre Studies

Meet the creators behind the words of Canadian opera in this exciting new collection of contemporary libretti. Featuring Ours by Robert Chafe, Rocking Horse Winner by Anna Chatterton, Beatrice Chancy by ...

Miss You Like Hell

Book and lyrics by Quiara Alegria Hudes
Lyrics by Erin McKeown
Subjects: Musicals

A troubled teenager and her estranged mother—an undocumented Mexican immigrant on the verge of deportation—embark on a road trip and strive to mend their frayed relationship along the way. Combined ...

Ned Durango

By Norm Foster & Leslie Arden
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Musicals, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

In the town of Big Oak lies the Crossroads Cafe, where five locals come together to plan the annual Tomato Parade. With everything in place, the town hopes the parade can sweeten the hearts of potential ...