Touchstone Theatre
110 - 750 Hamilton St V6B 2R5 Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Provincial Health Order effective today allows every business already operational under the previous order to remain so with the exception of live theatre (which is grouped under community and social events). We encourage all arts supporters to contact Premier John Horgan ([email protected]) and express your concern over this decision to close theatres. The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture has shared a draft letter that’s a great templatecheck your email for their advocacy alert message.

Save the date for our Annual General Meeting! Join us online on December 1 to learn more about the past year at Touchstone and what's coming up in 2021, from our board of directors and Artistic Director Roy Surette. Touchstone Theatre AGM Tuesday, December 1, 5:30 PM Online via Zoom... RSVP here: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSch8W3muDPSv9nbUA/viewform

Please join us in welcoming our new Interm General Manager Marisa Smith. Welcome, Marisa! Marisa is both honoured and excited to be working with the stellar team at Touchstone Theatre during this time of great change. Coming from an artistic and producing background, she is happy to expand her managerial skill set for a company with such a strong commitment to new work. Marisa is the founding artistic producer of Alley Theatre located on unceded Coast Salish territory. She is... a Jessie Nominated actor, three-time Critic’s Choice Nominated director, and was also the resident producer at Neworld Theatre 2012-14, Artistic Producer at Solo Collective in 2014/15, and Artist in Residence at Vancouver Moving Theatre 2017-18. She is the recipient of the Joanna Maratta Award for "displaying the most potential to contribute to the Vancouver theatre community". See more

"...my whole understanding of Evan’s trip back east, of the magnitude and the urgency of his desire to be near his mother, has grown exponentially." After we were forced postpone the June 2020 production of LIGHTS, playwright Adam Grant Warren went back to work revising the script and preparing for its future production. Read this piece by Adam, written during his summer working on LIGHTS, then sign up for our email newsletter to stay in touch for updates on the planned June 2021 production of this play. https://mailchi.mp//october-news-an-update-from-adam-grant

I WALKED THE LINE, a play written and performed by Vancouver theatre mainstay and Touchstone alumnus Allan Morgan, is now playing until October 25 at the Firehall Arts Centre--with newly added online streaming performances October 27 & 29. Tickets and info here: http://firehallartscentre.ca/onstage/i-walked-the-line/

HEY VIOLA!, the musical about Canadian civil rights champion Viola Desmond is playing at the Anvil Centre until October 24. You may remember this show as part of our InTune festival a few years ago. Info and tickets here: https://www.newwestcity.ca/calendar-of-even/events/6256.php

Tonight! Catch this special VocalEye "almost live" reading of OVERDALE with David King and Nicola Cavendish, hosted by Amy Amantea and featuring Touchstone Artistic Director Roy Surette. Free and designed to be accessible for people with who are blind/low vision. Follow the link in the post below for access.

Happy Place by Pamela Mala Sinha is a beautiful, powerful film adapted from the play that Touchstone produced in 2017. It's currently part of the St. John's International Women's Film Festival, with Canada-wide access. Watch the trailer here and get your tickets at https://www.womensfilmfestival.com/happy-place https://vimeo.com/441054844

The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival has just announced its dates for their 2021 edition! January 26February 7, 2021. We are excited to be working with PuSh again and will have a show at the 2021 Festival. Stay tuned for further announcements. https://pushfestival.ca/2021-date-announcement/

Less than 2 hours until the live stream of OVERDALE. This is your last chance to catch this staged reading of David King’s new play about a long lost connection and a chance meetingfeaturing Nicola Cavendish! Presentation House Theatre #OffThePage Get access here: https://sidedooraccess.com/shows/Rm6rOdto0AMff66874U8

Sold-out weekend of OVERDALE starts today at 2:30pm at Presentation House Theatre. Fortunately, there’s time to get your live stream tickets for tomorrow afternoon! https://sidedooraccess.com/shows/Rm6rOdto0AMff66874U8

Vancouver Presents shares more on Nicola Cavendish's return to the stage for David King's new play. Don't miss Nicola in this weekend's live stage readings of OVERDALE at Presentation House Theatre. Tickets still available for the Sunday afternoon live stream! https://www.vancouverpresents.com//nicola-cavendish-retur/

Fall arts preview from The Vancouver Sun includes a mention of our upcoming staged reading of OVERDALE. In-venue tickets are already sold out, but you can still catch the live stream performance on September 13! Live stream tickets: https://sidedooraccess.com/shows/Rm6rOdto0AMff66874U8... https://vancouversun.com//fall-arts-preview-for-the-vancou

OVERDALE starts in less than two weeks! Don't miss this live (in-person and online) play reading with David King and Nicola Cavendish. Here's what Nicola had to say about this play: "Overdale was written because I asked David to 'write something for us to do together again please Dave. We are getting older fast.' So he did. It is a two-hander about a couple who meet on the Langdale Ferry and spark up a conversation that becomes the play. ... OVERJOYED to do this with David wh...om I have loved since I was 26 when we met at the Banff Playwrights Colony and now I am 67 and love him even more." In-venue tickets: https://tickets.phtheatre.org/TheatreManager/1/online Live-stream tickets: https://sidedooraccess.com/shows/Rm6rOdto0AMff66874U8 Presentation House Theatre

Tickets for the live-stream play reading of OVERDALE are now available! Don't miss David King's romantic comedy about a missed connectionfeaturing Nicola Cavendishlive-streamed September 13 at 2:30 pm. Get your tickets here: https://sidedooraccess.com/shows/Rm6rOdto0AMff66874U8