An Invitation from Ron Reed

Pacific Theatre just passed the quarter-century mark – our first public performance was in September 1984 – and we’re celebrating! With a whole new look, and our most exhilarating season ever:

plays familiar and plays brand spanking new, singing and dancing, damnation and redemption. We’ve got it all! From our earliest days we’ve known Godspell would end up on the PT stage some day, and verily, the time is now upon us. Sarah Rodgers brings exquisite artistry (Driving Miss Daisy) and show-biz panache (Guys And Dolls) to an exuberant cast of emerging artists and seasoned pros – with jazz pianist Nelson Boschman in the music director’s chair. Prepare ye!

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe played to 22,000 people at the Norman Rothstein in 2003. Six years later, Wardrobe is coming home! Join Peter and Lucy as they return to the spare room where all their adventures began, in the intimate setting of Pacific Theatre – where seats will be at a premium for this limited Christmas run. A triumph of the imagination.
And there’s something of a New York flavour to the rest of our 26th Season...

When Refuge Of Lies ran Off-Broadway last fall, we realized it was time to bring this PT-developed play to Vancouver audiences. Inspired by actual local events, this riveting and complex story of guilt and redemption, secrets and revelations, takes us to the very heart of what Pacific Theatre is all about.

The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot comes from NYC’s hottest theatre company, first directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman – a staged reading (remember Twelve Angry Men? you’ll forget anybody’s got a script in hand) where everyone from Judas’s mom to Jesus himself bears witness at the trial of history’s most infamous betrayer.

And we step onto the international stage when The Pasion Project comes to town, straight from the East Village – this extraordinary movement / installation / projection piece about Joan of Arc is Pacific Theatre’s contribution to the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and the 2010 Cultural Olympiad.

I think you’ll agree, we’ve never offered a season quite so varied and adventurous – or one that goes quite so far in exploring spiritual experience, searching out the connection between history and eternity. Which is, after all, what we’re here for.

Ron Reed,
Artistic Director

An Invitation from Ron Reed

Pacific Theatre just passed the quarter-century mark – our first public performance was in September 1984 – and we’re celebrating! With a whole new look, and our most exhilarating season ever:

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