Manitoba Theatre Centre – Making you Laugh and Cry

The Manitoba Theatre Centre is offering a dynamic line-up of hits this season at the John Hirsh Mainstage. Opening with Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, October 13-Nomveber 5, the charming movie is easily translated to the stage as a poignant and laugh-out-loud musical. Next up is Romeo and Juliet, November 24-December 17, re-envisioned in the imagined Verona of present-day Jerusalem. Muslim Capulets, Jewish Montagues and Christian friars bring this Shakespearian love story to a heightened relevancy.

Shirley Valentine, January 5-28, sees Nicola Cavendish return to MTC to reprise her role in a heartwarming and inspiring play that speaks to anyone who has ever wanted more. The Manitoba story about winning the vote for women in The Fighting Days, February 9-March 3, will leave you looking at this volatile time in a whole new way. The Tony and Olivier-Award winning play, God of Carnage, March 17-April 7, knocks down the façade of politeness and suburban decorum and asks what we have sacrificed to in the mould. The season closes with Next to Normal, April 19-May 12, a Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize winning “feel everything” musical that looks at a family struggling to cope with mental illness.

MTC’s Tom Hendry Warehouse is offering up an exciting season that starts with In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, November 3-19, a provocative and funny look at a newfangled electrical device to cure female hysteria during the Victorian age. Mrs. Warren's Profession, January 19-February 4, is part of the 12th Annual Master Playwright Festival featuring the works of George Bernard Shaw. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Autust: Osage County, March 8-24, follows the tragically funny story of a family reuniting in a time of crisis. Blind Date, April 5-21 is a flirty and funny combination of improvisation, theatre and social experiment.