Excerpt from the article: "The South Simcoe Theatre 2025-26 season is an exciting all-Canadian line-up of diverse plays sure to appeal to all ages and interests. The season kicks off on November 21 with a lovely family-friendly musical, The Princess & The Handmaiden, written and composed by Leslie Arden, and based on the Brothers Grimm tale, The Goose Girl."

The South Simcoe Theatre's 2025 Annual General Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, October 25th, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. This year’s meeting will again be a hybrid meeting - you can attend either in person or via Zoom. The meeting will include reports on the 2024-25 season, our financial status, a vote for new board members, and an opportunity to have questions answered.

Playwrights are invited to submit plays for consideration - sketches, monologues or full-length plays are accepted. Please submit the script in .PDF form. Preference will be given to playwrights from Simcoe County and Ontario. Submissions from outside of Canada cannot be accepted.

This is intended to be an informative workshop environment, and perfectly polished pieces are not expected. We are all learning here, and I always walk away from these workshops learning more than the students! Participants are asked to prepare or begin working on two contrasting pieces. Examples of contrasting pieces would be a ballad and an up-tempo, or classic musical theatre and pop music, or different periods of music eg. 50’s and current, or classical/opera and anythin

In this workshop, participants will explore auditioning for community theatre with the aim of de-mystifying the process so that they will have a more joyful and fulfilling experience when auditioning for a show. The workshop will include a short lecture (geared to the experience level of the participants) covering: audition formats (individual, pair, group, callbacks), monologue selection and preparation, coping with nervousness, director’s perspective, analysis of an auditio

Colours in the Storm is about the life - and mysterious death - of one of Canada’s best-loved painters, Tom Thomson, whose landscapes of Algonquin Park are among the most famous paintings ever done in Canada. A beautifully written work with memorable music, it is more a gallery of scenes and songs than a traditional musical.