Belleville Theatre Guild

Belleville Theatre Guild’s 66th Season

Welcome to our website!

The Belleville Theatre Guild is Belleville’s Community theatre. We’ve been around since 1951 which puts us into our 66th consecutive year. We are proud to bring outstanding theatre to our community at prices that are affordable for all.
We provide locals with opportunities for actors, writers, musicians, technicians, designers, builders, painters, seamstresses, artists, and every other required field needed to put together a production.
We have a wonderful 2017/18 Season planned for you.

Our season is starting off with a variety of ONE ACTS written by local playwrights. We have been doing this venture for the past five years and it has grown in popularity with each season. Check out our audition notices; perhaps you will want to participate! A good way to get your feet wet is to try out a ONE ACT. Be sure to catch the shows; they are always unique and entertaining. This reveal of our community’s writing talent is always a refreshing surprise.

The first full length play in our subscription series is Thornton Wilder’s classic, Our Town. This Pulitzer Prize winning play is a powerful tale of humanity’s foibles, joys and sorrows. It promises to be a real triumph on our stage. We look forward to offering it to you.

The second play in our series is guaranteed to be the funniest show you will ever see. Michael Frayn’s Noises Off has been called the greatest farce ever written. We are remounting it 29 years after it first played to great acclaim on our stage, and it has been long awaited indeed. The howling in the auditorium will ring in your ears while you recover from your belly laughs. Do not miss this one. Twenty-nine years is a long time to wait for your next chance to see it here!

Marion Bridge, by Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor is our EODL Festival Entry this year. Set in Nova Scotia, the play brings to life a dysfunctional family dealing with death, failed relationships, unfortunate choices and lousy luck. Be that as it may, the human spirit and hope for the future allows this family to manage to bond anew. This, combined with an innate maritime humour, provides a wonderful evening of entertainment.

John Patrick’s The Curious Savage is our ‘chestnut’ for this season. A tale of greed gone wild, this whimsical tale seems to have more meaning today than when it was first written in 1950. It was first produced on Broadway that year starring Lillian Gish as Mrs. Savage! When she finds herself committed to an institution by her money grubbing step-children, so they can have access to her immense fortune, she also finds herself among a company of very odd people. The inhabitants of the insane institution are wise and pure of spirit despite their difficulties in dealing with reality!

The musical for this season’s grand finale is Irving Berlin’s amazing, Annie Get your Gun. “There’s No Business like Show Business” thunders throughout this work, just one of the gems of musical genius Berlin wrote for this production. The plot follows the true story of the life of backwoods gal, Annie Oakley, whose amazing feats with a rifle made her a national celebrity in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Her romance and rivalry with fellow sharp shooter and star, Frank Butler, gives rise to many hilarious tunes, “Your can’t get a man with a Gun”, “ Anything you can do I can do better”, “I got the Sun in the Morning and the Moon at Night” and “Doin what comes Naturally” will have you laughing the night away.

We have a wonderful line up for our season and look forward to sharing it with you. Be sure to book your season’s subscription – the best deal in town. Five plays for $80.00 , $75.00 for seniors simply can’t be beat. You can use our website to book or call our Box Office to place your order: (613) 967-1442.

Have a great time at our performances; you know we are!

President

Belleville Theatre Guild

August 30, 31, sEPTEMBER 1, 2, 2017

Shows:

The Green Thumb Gang by Peter Paylor, director Terry Boyd

Therapy by Keith Taylor, director Lisa Morris

Summer on the Bench by Sarah Harren, director Maija Thompson

Unbecoming by Garry Kirsch, director Enno Busse

A Kiss to Build a Dream On by Penny Barker, director Heather Barker

Terry Boyd, Jim Love, Producers and Phil Bowerman, Stage Manager

Summaries:

Green Thumb Gang: Two seniors are suspected of stealing from a house, but insist they were only there to water the plants.

Therapy: A group therapy session for people who believe that someone they know has been taken over by an alien.

Summer on the Bench: two teenage girls spend their summer waiting for the right guy to come along.

Unbecoming: A murder case is baffling the two detectives working to solve it.

A Kiss to Build a Dream On: a couple on their fiftieth anniversary reminisce about their life together, with the help of a friendly waitress. 

"The box office will reopen for the one act plays on Monday, August 28th, and tickets can be bought at the box office during box office hours, or they can be bought online.

The box office will be open:

Aug.28th & 29th, 2pm-5pm

Aug.30th - Sept.2, 2pm-8pm"