Prairie Theatre Exchange

PTE will be closed Monday, September 30 in recognition of the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation.

We encourage everyone to dedicate some time to reflect on the stories of those affected by the residential school system, and to take advantage of some of the ✨free✨ opportunities for learning, reflection and healing taking place in our Downtown community, in-person and online:

🧡 National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation's Remembering the Children: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation LIVE from Parliament Hill, streaming via APTN

🧡 Wa-Say Healing Centre's 4th Annual Healing Walk & Pow Wow
10AM – Pipe Ceremony at Oodena Circle at The Forks
11AM – Healing walk begins
1PM – Pow-wow at RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg

🧡 Chāpān Games and Teachings Celebration
CN Stage & Skate Park at The Forks
11AM–9PM, hosted by Women's Health Clinic (WHC)

🧡 Free entry & activities taking place at Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Manitoba Museum, Manitoba Children's Museum

Southern Chiefs' Organization has also put together a list of events taking place across Manitoba. Check it out: scoinc.mb.ca/orange-shirt-day-events-2024/

🚨 The first weekend of BED & BREAKFAST performances is upon us! 🚨

After tonight, there are only 10 more shows until this hit comedy makes it way back to Port Hope –DON'T MISS IT!

🎟️ pte.mb.ca/performances/bed-breakfast2

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📸: Kyle Golemba & Amir Haidar. Set & costume design by Joyce Padua. Lighting design by Michelle Ramsay. Photo by Tracey Allison.

The best theatre artists & performers have a unique ability to touch your heart, and take you on a powerful journey. ❤️

PTE is proud to be partnering with other live arts organizations in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary, and Edmonton to bring you the Prairie Arts Campaign, supported by Prairies Economic Development Canada and managed by a dedicated steering committee of arts leaders.

We invite you to join the initiative this season by taking part in the performing arts near you!

explorelivearts.ca
🎭 🩰 🎻 🎶 🎺🎤 💃

• Alberta Ballet
• Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
• Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
• Globe Theatre
• Manitoba Opera
• Prairie Theatre Exchange
• Regina Symphony Orchestra
• Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre
• Royal Winnipeg Ballet
• Theatre Calgary
• Vertigo Theatre
• Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

To get involved and support Orange Shirt Day, here's a list of National Truth and Reconciliation Day events that are taking place in Winnipeg and throughout Manitoba.

BED & BREAKfAST by Mark Crawford is open now through October 6! 🌈🏠 Curious to know more about it? Well, we sat down Kyle Golemba, Amir Haidar, and director Rob Kempson to chat about the show.

You can watch Part 1 of that conversation here:

BED & BREAKFAST | Interview with Amir Haidar, Kyle Golemba, Rob Kempson (PART 1) BED & BREAKFAST by Mark Crawford runs September 24 – October 6, 2024 at PTE.Get tickets at PTE.mb.caVideo by EE Media Productions

Wa-Say Healing Centre FREE EVENT OPEN TO EVERYONE
Healing Walk & Orange Shirt Day Pow Wow
September 30th, RBC Convention Centre
A time to Walk & Dance together to Honor the Residential School Survivors and Remember the Children that didn't return home. 🧡🦅
Orange T-shirts given away at Oodena Circle @ 9am

🦉 Don't miss your chance to see OWL CALLING, closing this Saturday! Get tickets at rootsky.ca

Collaborative playwrights dig into difficult history - Owl Calling in the media “Opening at the Rachel Browne Theatre today, (Sept. 25), Owl Calling is centred on one family’s experience navigating the independent assessment process, or IAP, established as a method of resolution…

🎊 🎉 HAPPY OPENING to Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg Studio Theatre & the entire(-ly Winnipeg-based!) cast & crew of MISS SHAKESPEARE by Tracey Power & Steve Charles!

🎟 TONIGHT until October 5: rainbowstage.ca/miss-shakespeare/

✨OPENING NIGHT✨

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT that Miss Shakespeare opens! Don’t wait any longer to secure your seats to this exciting show! Photo by !

THE STORY:
Miss Shakespeare is a story inspired by the Bard’s daughter, whose own creative aspirations come alive as she leads a group of women in something secret, subversive, and illegal: the staging of a play.

🎟TICKETS FOR MISS SHAKESPEARE ON SALE NOW🎟

⌨️ Online: https://www.rainbowstage.ca/
📲 By phone: 204.989.0888
🏢 In person: Box Office at Rainbow Stage Admin Office (202-1215 Henderson Hwy)

MISS SHAKESPEARE
Erin McGrath, Director
Renate Rossol, Music Director
Rachael McLaren, Choreographer
Sharon Bajer, Intimacy Director
Anika Binding, Lighting / Costume Director
Julia Cote, Set Designer
Sarah Lamoureux & Kyra Krassnigg, Stage Management
Katherine Johnston, Production Management
Cast: Rhea Rodych- Rasidescu, Hera Nalam, Dora Carroll, Jill Willems, Julia Davis, Andrea del Campo, Ellen Peterson

Today is day four of Pimootayowin: A Festival of New Work!

Tonight at 7pm in the Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre, there will be a free reading public presentation of Rhonda Apetagon’s play In the Shadows Beyond the Pines. This is a nonticketed event and seating is first-come, first-served.

In the Shadows Beyond the Pines: Amid the legends and mysteries of the vast wilderness of northern Manitoba, join three young men as they wrestle with the loss of their friend by reclaiming the cultural practice of having a sacred fire. Geroge, Dale and Shane venture back to their childhood campsite to honour the memory of their friend Warren. But when legends come to life and old tales are all they have left to guide them through the night, will their resolve succumb to terror? Set in modern times but steeped in a dark and haunting past, this play explores the shadows of Indigenous life and lore. In these woods, there are more than just wolves to fear.

ADULT CONTENT: language, reference to su***de, violence

https://royalmtc.ca/Festivals-Events/Pimootayowin-A-Festival-of-New-Work.aspx

🏠 🔑 ✨ IT'S OPENING NIGHT of BED & BREAKFAST!
pte.mb.ca/performances/bed-breakfast2

When Brett unexpectedly inherits the historic family home, he and Drew abandon their frustrating careers and move out of fast-paced, high-priced Toronto to set up a B&B in a quiet little tourist town. But when they face friction in their new community, they discover the simple life is more complicated than they thought.

With more than a few unexpected and hilarious plot-twists and dozens of quirky characters all portrayed by two men, Bed & Breakfast is a theatrical tour-de-force. As riotously funny as it is deeply moving, this is a heartfelt comedy about “being out” in small town Ontario, skeletons in the closet, and finding a place to call home.

🌈 OPEN NOW until October 6
pte.mb.ca/performances/bed-breakfast2

🏠 BED & BREAKFAST by Mark Crawford
A Capitol Theatre Port Hope production

Featuring Kyle Golemba & Amir Haidar
Directed by Rob Kempson
Set & Costume Designer: Joyce Padua
Lighting Designer: Michelle Ramsay
Sound Designer: La-Nai Gabriel
Associate Sound Designer: Christie Heriot
Dialect Coach: Alison Deon
Stage Manager: Tamara Protić
Assistant Stage Manager: Ridge Romanishen

24/25 Season Sponsor: 🍻 Manitoba Liquor Mart
Production Sponsor: 🧡 The Gail Asper Family Foundation
Opening Night Sponsor: ✨ Red River Mutual
Media Sponsor: 📰 Winnipeg Free Press

📸: Photos by Tracey Allison

Tonight our BED & BREAKFAST team opens the remount of our hit summer production at Prairie Theatre Exchange. We love this play, and this production, and are thrilled to share the work of the Capitol with audiences in Winnipeg! Thank you to the amazing team at PTE for being such wonderful hosts and collaborators!
*Happy Opening!*

https://www.pte.mb.ca/performances/bed-breakfast2
BED & BREAKFAST
By Mark Crawford
Director - Rob Kempson
Set & Costume Designer - Joyce Padua
Lighting Designer - Michelle Ramsay
Composer & Sound Designer - La-Nai Gabriel
Feat. Kyle Golemba and Amir Haidar
Stage Manager - Tamara Protic
Asst. Stage Manager - Ridge Romanishen
Associate Sound Designer - Christie Heriot

🎟️ 🗣️ IT'S PREVIEW TUESDAY 🗯️ 🎟️ We'll see you for a rush-seating performance of BED & BREAKFAST by Mark Crawford, TONIGHT at 7:30PM.

Arrive early to claim your preferred seat in the theatre!

General Admission tickets are still available at: tickets.PTE.mb.ca 🧑‍💻 OR by contacting the box office directly: 204-942-5483 / [email protected]

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📸: Amir Haidar in BED & BREAKFAST at Capitol Theatre Port Hope. Set & costume design by Joyce Padua. Lighting design by Michelle Ramsay. Photo by Tracey Allison.

Here are the ✨ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCE DATES✨ for BED & BREAKFAST at PTE!

𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗬, October 4 - 7:30PM

👌 Interpretation: situated to the side of the stage area within easy viewing of patrons.

🔦 : house lights are kept on at a very low level throughout the performance to allow for safe movement around the theatre. Audience members are free to move in and out of their seats, or in and out of the theatre, as needed.
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𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗗𝗔𝗬, October 5 - 7:30PM

🎧 : headsets will be available in the lobby before the show
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✨ If you would like to make use of our accessibility services, please call the Box Office 📞 204-942-5483 to book your tickets so to access the special price of $25 plus a complimentary companion seat.

A big thank you to Access Credit Union 🖤 for sponsoring continued accessibility initiatives all season long!

For More on Accessibility: pte.mb.ca/plan-your-visit/accessibility

🤯 IT'S OPENING WEEK for BED & BREAKFAST!
pte.mb.ca/performances/bed-breakfast2

Now Toronto wrote ✍️ "This show has HIT written all over it!" and we can't help but agree! If you haven't already, now is the time to get your tickets to join us for this heartfelt and hilarious show.

Featuring Kyle Golemba & Amir Haidar
Written by Mark Crawford
Directed by Rob Kempson

Set & Costume Designer: Joyce Padua
Lighting Designer: Michelle Ramsay
Sound Designer: La-Nai Gabriel
Associate Sound Designer: Christie Heriot

Stage Manager: Tamara Protić
Assistant Stage Manager: Ridge Romanishen
Dialect Coach: Alison Deon

SEPTEMBER 24 – OCTOBER 6

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📸: Kyle Golemba in BED & BREAKFAST at Capitol Theatre Port Hope. Set & costume design by Joyce Padua. Lighting design by Michelle Ramsay. Photo by Tracey Allison.

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation has programmed a full week of programming as get ready to recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30 🧡 Check out the schedule, learn more and register here: https://trw-svr.nctr.ca/

🎊 Happy Opening to our friends at Winnipeg Jewish Theatre and the cast & crew of TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE! 🎊

September 19-29
wjt.ca/season/tuesdays-with-morrie

It’s OPENING NIGHT of Tuesdays with Morrie! We cannot wait to share this special story with an audience tonight. Although most of the run is sold out, few tickets are still up for grabs!

Morrie - Harry Nelken
Mitch - David Sklar ()

Director - Mariam Bernstein ()
Stage Manager - Jazz Marcelino ()
Set Designer - Shauna Jones ()
Lighting Designer - Scott Henderson ()
Costume Designer - Amy McPherson
Music Arranger - Danny Carroll ()

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TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
A humorous and poignant story of career-obsessed journalist Mitch Albom, who sixteen years after graduation serendipitously learns that his former professor Morrie is battling Lou Gehrig’s Disease. What starts as a simple visit, turns into a weekly pilgrimage and the last class in the meaning of life.

Sept 19-29, 2024
@ The Berney Theatre

Tickets at WJT.CA or by calling 204.477.7478.

Photo by Inna Borysevych 📸

Heading to Prairie Theatre Exchange ? Check out AANM member Ryan Smoluk's painting "Piano Cat" in the Lobby!

Artist: Ryan Smoluk
Title: Piano Cat
Year: 2023
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 20"x26"
Price:$1000 (for inquiries: [email protected] / 204-336-2366

Image description:

This is a photograph of a built-in display with grey walls and a glass front. Inside the display is a painting by Ryan Smoluk. This painting is a playful image of a white and grey cat with blue eyes sitting the keys of a piano. The cat has a rose in its mouth and fake bunny ears on its head. The piano is filled with colourful dashes which is indicative of Ryan's unique painting style.

BEER & BRUNCH was a BIG SUCCESS! Thanks to each & every one who made it out to our first event of the season, celebrating the Winnipeg Premiere of BED & BREAKFAST by Mark Crawford. We had a blast, and hope you did, too!

❤️ Huge thanks go out to Promenade Brasserie for serving up a one-of-a-kind breakfast-for-dinner experience. 🥓 🍳

🧡 Thanks also to Good Neighbour Brewing Co. for hosting us & our guests in their legendary brewing room, and washing down each course with tasty brews and beer cocktails! 🍹🍻

💛 And finally, an extra-special thank you to cast-members Kyle Golemba and Amir Haidar, who took the time away from rehearsals to spend some quality time with PTE audience members.

BED & BREAKFAST opens next week!
https://ow.ly/3zWB50Tri2Q

💌 If you want in on our next PTE event, be sure to follow us here and sign up for the e-newsletter to stay up to date on everything we're planning this season:
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We're beyond thrilled to see that Brian Drader's FOR FRANCOIS & Donna-Michelle St. Bernard's DIGGERS -- both of which started out as PTE commissions -- have been nominated for this year's Tom Hendry Awards! ✨🏆

We're incredibly lucky to work alongside talented and profound artists. Congratulations to MB's own Brian Drader (Manitoba Association of Playwrights) and Donna-Michelle St. Bernard on your achievement!

The award ceremony takes place on October 28.
Find more information here: https://playwrightsguild.ca/awards/