MS. Holmes & Ms. Watson - #2B

By Kate Hamill, Cheerfully Desecrating the Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Directed by Kathryn Smith

May 11 - June 9, 2024

A fast paced, laugh a minute mystery for the ages

Baker Street, London, Spring of…2021? Ms. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Joan Watson join forces to catch a murderer that is on the loose, though there seems to be a bigger game afoot. A traditional adventure told in a post-pandemic world - with a nail-biting mystery that only Sherlock Holmes can solve.

This Canadian Premiere by Kate Hamill is a funny and modern approach to a classic tale with your favourite characters.

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THE WOMAN IN BLACK

By Stephen Mallatratt

Based on the novel by Susan Hill

Directed by Jamie Dunsdon

September 28 - October 27, 2024

Do you believe in ghosts?

Arthur Kipps was a young solicitor, when he was sent to a remote town in England to oversee the funeral of an elderly recluse. While there, he learns about a woman in black, a phantom, who haunts the residents of the town. Years later, Kipps hires a young actor to help recount the events of that time, never expecting the haunting to move into the theatre and curse them both. Can they expel the spirit once and for all? Or is it too little, too late?

The second longest running play in London’s West End, performing over thirteen thousand shows, THE WOMAN IN BLACK is an encounter you won’t soon forget!

 “The Woman in Black” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French Inc.www.concordtheatricals.com

Murder on the LINks

BY Steven Dietz

Adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie

Directed by Jenna Rodgers

November 16 - December 15, 2024

Agatha Christie’s world-renowned detective returns!

Hercule Poirot and associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to the news that their newest client has been found dead - stabbed in the back with a letter opener in a freshly dug grave on a local golf course. With a list of usual and unusual suspects, the case takes a turn when a second, identically murdered body is discovered. Poirot must now use his powers of investigation against an assailant whose misdirection and intentions are nearly impossible to spot.

A cast of six actors play over 30 roles in the Canadian Premiere of this exhilarating and spirited adaptation of Christie’s classic mystery with her greatest and most beloved detective Hercule Poirot!  The perfect holiday treat!

DEADLY MURDER

By David FOley

Directed by Valerie Planche

February 1 - March 2, 2025

Who has the upper hand?

Camille Dargus is a successful jewelry designer who has it all: beauty, brains, wealth and a glitzy Manhattan lifestyle. While attending a society gala, she meets Billy, a handsome young waiter, and brings him back to her apartment. However there seems to be more to Billy than meets the eye. Camille now finds herself staring down the barrel of a gun held by a man who seems chillingly familiar with her past.  Can she outwit Billy or will he destroy everything that she has worked for?

Full of bluffs and double bluffs, crosses and double-crosses, this intensely intricate psychological thriller will be one step ahead of you until the very end!

“DEADLY MURDER” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com.

A KILlING AT LA CUCINA (A LUCIA DANTE MYSTERY)

By Thomas Morgan Jones

A Co- Production with Prairie Theatre Exchange, WInnipeg

Directed by Jack Grinhaus

March 15 - April 13, 2025

You dine, maybe you die…

World-famous food critic Richard Carlyle dies after dining at the hottest new 5-star restaurant, FATE – an establishment that offers diners an experience to face their own mortality. Did he die by eating the improperly prepared puffer fish, or was he murdered? Enter Lucia Dante, renowned detective, to solve the case. With numerous suspects that all have reasons to kill, Lucia must draw on her skills and the help of her AI colleague Isabella. She must also settle scores from her own past in order to crack the case.

This World Premiere of a new Canadian play is a delicious whodunnit of the highest order that introduces a new legend of crime solving in a fast paced and intense mystery.

THE DA VINCI CODE

Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel,based on the novel by Dan Brown

Directed by Simon Mallett

May 10 - June 8, 2025

Cracking the code of an age-old mystery.

In the deep labyrinth of the Louvre, a museum curator is found viciously murdered. Alongside his body are a series of mysterious codes. In a race against time, it is up to Professor Robert Langdon, along with Cryptologist Sophie Neveu, to try and solve the riddles of the codes and the centuries-old mystery of the Holy Grail. With the help of teacher and friend Sir Leigh Tebing, Langdon and Neveu embark through the streets of Paris in hopes of deciphering the code before forces of darkness extinguish the historical secret forever.

Based on Dan Brown’s bestselling novel that sold nearly 100 million copies and was made into a major Hollywood hit film, this new stage adaptation takes audiences on a treasure hunt adventure that will leave them breathless!

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