INTRODUCING THE 25/26 SEASON
WOMEN OF THE FUR TRADE
By Frances Končan
Sept 24 – Oct 4, 2025 | FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE, UBC
In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel.
Following a sold-out premiere in January 2024 at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, Touchstone Theatre revives this NAC Indigenous Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company & Native Earth Production with its first Western Canadian stop
GERTRUDE & ALICE
By Evalyn Parry and Anna Chatterton, with Karin Randoja
Nov 6 – 23, 2025 | PAL STUDIO THEATRE
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas return to the stage, reflecting on their legendary partnership, the salons of Paris, and a life shaped by art, war, and devotion.
Nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award (2018)
A Western Gold Theatre Production in partnership with Touchstone Theatre and in association with United Players of Vancouver
2021
Created by Cole Lewis, Patrick Blenkarn, Sam Ferguson
January 23-24, 2026 | ANNEX THEATRE
In 2021, a daughter resurrects her father’s memory through a live, interactive performance where AI, video games, and storytelling collide. As an audience member embodies Brian—a terminally ill, unhoused veteran reliving his final weeks in a New Jersey hospital—his digital afterlife unfolds, blurring the lines between memory and simulation, story and gameplay, the living and the dead, and asks what it truly means to be remembered.
A special co-presentation with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, co-produced by Guilty by Association and The Elbow Theatre
Danceboy
By Munish Sharma
March 19-22, 2026 | The Vines Den
In Danceboy, creator and performer Munish Sharma explores his lifelong love of dance and how it sparked his greatest transformations. This high-energy solo show blends shadow puppetry, dance, poetry, and live DJ mixing, keeping audiences moving while comedically confronting toxic masculinity, cultural stereotypes, and Bollywood’s heteronormative myths of love.
