September 2022
Play the Fool Festival
Play The Fool Festival is thrilled to be back LIVE, for four days of clowning around, September 22 - 25, 2022, at the Backstage Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns. Play The Fool Festival will feature four mainstage shows and two cabaret performances. Tickets go on sale on August 8. Featuring shows like Pochsy IV, Something in the Water, and more, clown around with the Play The Fool festival
Find out more »December 2022
Kidding Around – GRIT’s 40th Anniversary fundraiser
RIT is partnering with Rapid Fire Theatre to bring you our 40th Anniversary "Kidding Around" fundraiser! Rapid Fire Theatre's hilarious performers create this entire show right off the top of their heads. But, in order to pull it off, they're going to need help from all the kids in the audience. In this show, kids are invited to shout out suggestions and participate. The performers will be inclusive and responsive to multiple ways children may communicate. This event will include…
Find out more »January 2023
Freaky Green Eyes
Franky Pierson knows something has “begun”. There's a shift in the air and a new family schedule. Stapled on smiles—until her mother vanishes. Adrift, Franky must piece together the facts to discover the truth of the situation, guided by her inner voice—Freaky Green Eyes. Part coming of age story, part mystery, Freaky Green Eyes asks questions about the lengths we will go, to avoid seeing what is right in front of us. Venue: The Backstage Theatre
Find out more »Freaky Green Eyes
Franky Pierson knows something has “begun”. There's a shift in the air and a new family schedule. Stapled on smiles—until her mother vanishes. Adrift, Franky must piece together the facts to discover the truth of the situation, guided by her inner voice—Freaky Green Eyes. Part coming of age story, part mystery, Freaky Green Eyes asks questions about the lengths we will go, to avoid seeing what is right in front of us. Venue: The Backstage Theatre
Find out more »February 2023
After Faust
Many know the classic tragedy of Doctor Faustus, who made a deal with a demon and ultimately gave up his soul. But few have asked the question, “what happened to the demon Mephistopheles after?” Performed in ASL by a Deaf cast, After Faust surfaces the oft-painful questions and choices that lay along the path of forgiveness and self-transformation.
Find out more »Moonshot IV: The Dayking
Experience choral music with an edge, featuring the Growlers Choir from Montreal, and narrator/poet Fortner Anderson. The Dayking by Pierre-Luc Senécal Warning to the Rich by Thomas Jennefelt Blood, Breath and Other Miracles by Jane Berry Where once Poe walked by Nicholas Ryan Kelly Book of Songs by Mari Alice Conrad Arrache by Pascal Germain-Berardi Note that there are two in-person performances of this program, and the Sunday performance will also be live-streamed!
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