Canadian Stage’s 2025-26 season will feature nine productions, including the Canadian premiere of a controversial American play and a new adaptation of an Ibsen classic.
The upcoming lineup, announced Monday, will begin this summer with a new production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” at the High Park Amphitheatre, directed by Marie Farsi.
In September, the company’s indoor programming at the Berkeley Street Theatre will kick off with “Slave Play,” Jeremy O. Harris’s charged satire about a trio of interracial couples who try to fix their relationships by using “antebellum sexual performance therapy.” The play received 12 Tony Award nominations in 2020, but also sparked intense debate over its portrayal of race and the legacy of slavery.
Later this fall, the acclaimed Canadian theatremaker Robert Lepage will direct a new revival of his play “The Far Side of the Moon” at the Bluma Appel Theatre. Then Canadian Stage will partner with the Necessary Angel Theatre Company to present the world premiere of Kanika Ambrose’s “Moonlight Schooner,” about a group of Black sailors in the late ‘50s who are stranded on the island of St. Kitts following a howling storm.
Canadian Stage’s holiday programming will feature the previously announced holiday panto production of “Robin Hood” at the Winter Garden Theatre.
The company’s first show of 2026 will be Amy Herzog’s adaptation of the Ibsen classic “A Doll’s House,” helmed by Canadian Stage artistic director Brendan Healy.
Canadian playwright Erin Shields will then premiere her latest work, “You, Always,” about two sisters parsing more than 50 years of memories after they receive some shocking news. Directed by Andrea Donaldson, the production will star Maev Beaty and Liisa Repo-Martell.
The season will close with puppeteer Ronnie Burkett’s “Little Willy,” his irreverent take on “Romeo and Juliet,” and the Canadian premiere of Lynn Nottage’s “Clyde’s,” about a sandwich stop run by ex-convicts looking to redeem themselves.
