Arts Club Theatre Company Announces 2009-2010 Season
Vancouver's Largest Theatre Company Presents 13 Productions for Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
May 23, 2009
For their 46th season, Artistic Managing Director Bill Millerd has announced 12 new productions that will play at three venues, and a remount of a holiday hit as part of the 2009/2010 season.
Millerd announced the season on the heels of the beginning of the largest show the company has ever taken on - Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's Les Misérables, which has now opened at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to rave reviews and countless sold-out performances.
For the 2009/2010 season, Millerd announced four premieres, including Mrs. Dexter and her Daily by Joanna McLelland Glass, which will star Nicola Cavendish and Fiona Reid, Tear the Curtain! by the Electric Theatre Company, and Paradise Garden by Vancouver playwright Lucia Frangione. The Arts Club will present the Vancouver premiere of Irving Berlin's White Christmas: The Musical in November at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.
As well, Eric McCormack of TV's Will & Grace will return to the Arts Club Theatre Company as part of the July 2010 production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.
Executive Director Howard Jang said, “Our audiences and especially our subscriber base has been growing for the last decade, establishing the Arts Club as the highest-attended theatre company in Western Canada. For next season, Bill has put together a playbill for all to enjoy, savour, and be entertained.”
Bill Millerd said, “There is much to be excited about in this lineup but highlights for me are the world premiere of Electric Company's Tear the Curtain! on the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, which will be an exciting part of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, and is a direct result of our Silver Commissions Project. Second, the return to the New Revue Stage gives the Arts Club more opportunities to produce new plays from local playwrights. I would especially like to thank the Vancouver Foundation for giving us extraordinary support to help us make our transition back to the New Revue Stage.”
Here is a look at the entire Arts Club 2009/2010 season:
STANLEY INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCE STAGE
- Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer, starring Nicola Lipman,September 10–October 11, 2009
- Irving Berlin's White Christmas: The Musical Nov 12–Dec 27, 2009
- Mrs. Dexter and her Daily by Joanna McLelland Glass, a co-production with the National Arts Centre English Theatre, starring Nicola Cavendish and Fiona Reid,January 7–February 7, 2010
- Tear the Curtain! by The Electric Theatre Company,March 11–April 11, 2010
- Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story by Alan Janes and Rob Bettinson, May 13–July 11, 2010
- Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet, starring Eric McCormack of TV's Will & Grace, July 22–August 22, 2010
GRANVILLE ISLAND STAGE
- Mom's the Word: Remixed by the Mom's the Word Collective,September 24–November 7, 2009
- It's a Wonderful Life by Philip Grecian,November 26, 2009–January 2, 2010
- Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe by Jonathan Christenson and Bretta Gerecke, January 21–February 6, 2010
- Billy Bishop Goes To War by John Gray and Eric Peterson, starring Ryan Biel and Zachary Gray, March 25–April 17, 2010
- Paradise Garden by Lucia Frangione, April 15–May 15, 2010 at the New Revue Stage
- Becky's New Car by Steven Dietz,May 6–June 5, 2010
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn In association with the Belfry Theatre, June 17–July 31, 2010
Season tickets are currently on sale through the box office at 604-687-1644, or on the Arts Club Theatre Company website. Single tickets for the 2009/2010 season will be available in early August.
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