This season, TIFT leaps into new territory (sometimes literally) and challenges the boundaries that exist to be pushed, erected, or destroyed–a season replete with new works and past favourites on stages (and in forests) not just at home in Barrie, Ontario, but across the far reaches of the planet to South America, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.
Tickets for productions before December 31 are now available. Tickets for productions after January will be available in October.
After a three-year pilot program that offered complimentary admission to our main programming, TIFT is pleased to continue with an offering of a hybrid of free and regular paid performances for the new season. This effort has been made to help dismantle economic barriers to attendance and provide for more universal accessibility to the arts.
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This season, TIFT leaps into new territory (sometimes literally) and challenges the boundaries that exist to be pushed, erected, or destroyed–a season replete with new works and past favourites on stages (and in forests) not just at home in Barrie, Ontario, but across the far reaches of the planet to South America, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.
Tickets for productions before December 31 are now available. Tickets for productions after January will be available in October.
After a three-year pilot program that offered complimentary admission to our main programming, TIFT is pleased to continue with an offering of a hybrid of free and regular paid performances for the new season. This effort has been made to help dismantle economic barriers to attendance and provide for more universal accessibility to the arts.
The Province of Ontario requires proof of vaccination to attend all indoor theatre events. Please note that we will require:
-Proof of Vaccination & Valid ID upon entry.
-Patrons complete a Covid-19 Self-Assessment for contact tracing purposes.
-Patrons wear their mask at all times when in the building (except when actively eating or drinking)
Only book tickets if you have received your second vaccination at least 14 days prior to the performance. If you do not have proof of vaccination and proof of identity, unfortunately, you will not be allowed access to the building.
A security charge of $0.01 CAD is required to validate booking. Patrons can cancel or reschedule up to 48 hours before the performance without charge. Please email admin@tift.ca to make any changes.
In the event a patron fails to cancel or make alternate changes and does not attend the performance, a $25.00 charge will be applied per ticket to the patron’s credit card. This charge will be used as a donation to the theatre and a tax receipt will be issued.
This season, TIFT leaps into new territory (sometimes literally) and challenges the boundaries that exist to be pushed, erected, or destroyed–a season replete with new works and past favourites on stages (and in forests) not just at home in Barrie, Ontario, but across the far reaches of the planet to South America, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.
Tickets for productions before December 31 are now available. Tickets for productions after January will be available in October.
After a three-year pilot program that offered complimentary admission to our main programming, TIFT is pleased to continue with an offering of a hybrid of free and regular paid performances for the new season. This effort has been made to help dismantle economic barriers to attendance and provide for more universal accessibility to the arts.
Coming from Toronto and in need of transportation? We have a shuttle bus available which leaves at various times from The Sheraton Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, across from City Hall. Click Here for departure times and to purchase tickets.
Written and Directed by Griffin Hewitt
Multiple locations in Barrie
Travel along a unique multi-location experience to uncover the mystery behind a missing person, a strange symbol, and a story from ages past. Combining immersive and interactive experiences, audio-visual content, and a technological treasure hunt, Outheis takes you on a journey through time that asks “Where can we go when we are lost?” Outheis began as a companion piece to TIFT’s roving and immersive production of Sweeney Todd which toured to Buenos Aires, Argentina, this past February.
Written and Performed by Jake Epstein
Developed With and Directed by Robert McQueen
Five Points Theatre, Barrie
Jake Epstein, star of “Degrassi: The Next Generation” and Broadway leading man, shares his entertaining show biz tell-all about pursuing your dreams under the shadow of rejection, stage fright and heartbreak. He had a smash sell-out run at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto last year, and we’re proud to have him in Barrie!
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Directed by Saccha Dennis
Five Points Theatre, Barrie
Our flagship musical of the season! A fierce new rendition of the seminal Andrew Lloyd Webber classic, Jesus Christ Superstar, director Saccha Dennis reimagines Superstar–the story of the days leading up to Jesus’ death from the perspective of Judas–through the lens of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton. A leader among his people, Hampton’s efforts toward helping his community and leading by example were seen as a threat to the FBI. With the help of informant William O’Neal, Hampton was shot and killed in a pre-dawn raid in December, 1969.
Written and Performed by Starr Domingue
Written and Performed by Jennifer Stewart
Five Points Theatre, Barrie
A cabaret double bill! A pair of long-time friends share the Five Points stage in a double bill of their new solo productions.
I’m the Greatest Starr…(but no one knows it), written and performed by Starr Domingue, is an autoethnographic, musical-style cabaret which takes its audience on a journey through the performances, both on and off the stage, of a successful, working musical theatre actor in Canada.
Confessions of Motherhood, written and performed by Jennifer Stewart, is an intimate recollection of the trials, frustrations and uncertainties experienced during one woman's journey to motherhood. Interspersed with theme-appropriate songs from the music theatre canon, this personal story questions what it takes to become a mother in the twenty-first century and at what cost.
A Production of Punctuate! Theatre
Written and Performed by Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova
Directed by Lianna Makuch
Five Points Theatre, Barrie
This runaway hit production by Punctuate! Theatre has played to rave reviews across the country and is coming to the Five Points! Based on actual events, this captivating real-life love story is set against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Written by David Hirson
Directed by Dylan Trowbridge
Starring Mike Nadajewski
Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto
After a triumphant run in Barrie last fall, David Hirson’s hilarious La Bête transfers to Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre Theatre. Mike Nadajewski returns to star as Valère and Dylan Trowbridge will again take the helm as director. Inspired by Molière, La Bête details the upheaval in a famous acting troupe when its patron insists that a frivolous and foppish street performer, Valère, join the ensemble under the leadership of stuffy and dignified Elomire. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, is an exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art.
Written by Mike Bartlett
Five Points Theatre, Barrie
Cock, the hit comedy by British playwright Mike Bartlett, is about John, a gay man, who has been in a relationship with his partner for seven years. But when he meets and falls in love with a woman, he is forced to contemplate the boundaries of his identity and decide what he really wants for his future. It is a hilarious and touching look at the difficulties that pop up when you realize you have a choice.
Written by Darrell Dennis
Directed by Herbie Barnes
Moving City Bus
A perennial TIFT favourite, having played hundreds of performances in locations across Canada, in Australia and in Argentina, this season, Dennis’ play about a young Indigenous man navigating life in the “big city” and staged entirely on a moving city bus, will play this fall in Paramaribo, Suriname, and Santiago, Chile. In January, it will head to Auckland, New Zealand, and then to Fiji.
Written by Adam Meisner
Directed by Maja Ardal
Suburban Home
Set in a futuristic, genderless society, two historians discover a millennium-era house and hatch a plan to turn the building into a re-enactment museum of life in the year 2000. Examining the fashion, furnishing and family roles of their millennial forbears through the lens of binary gender roles, the project turns risky when one of the historians and a young volunteer begin to explore sexual acts deemed illegal in that society in secret.
What She Burned:
Created and Artistically Led by Joe Pagnan
Based on the folklore written by Alexander Afanasyev
Into The Woods:
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Michael Torontow
Corban Estate Arts Centre
Auckland Botanic Gardens
A double bill of What She Burned and Into The Woods will inhabit a forest in Auckland, New Zealand. What She Burned, the story of a young woman facing an evil witch in the woods, takes audiences on a walk through an immersive installation that uses mid-century bootlegging techniques fused with modern augmented-reality technology, retracing the heroine’s steps. They will then be treated to our lightly-staged, concert version of Into The Woods–the hit fairy tale mash-up musical that explores the consequences of pursuing wishes–which Barrie audiences enjoyed at Springwater Park and Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre in 2021.