Land Acknowledgement
Theatre New Brunswick acknowledges that it carries out its work on the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq and Peskotomuhkati peoples. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which these nations first signed with the British Crown in 1726. The treaties did not deal with the surrender of lands and resources, but in fact recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.
We, the staff and members of the board, pay respect to the elders, past and present, and descendants of this land. We honour the knowledge keepers and seek their guidance as we strive to develop closer relationships with the Indigenous people of New Brunswick.
About Us
Theatre New Brunswick is one of Canada’s oldest and longest running regional theatre companies. Our mission is to create extraordinary theatre that inspires and entertains our audience while celebrating New Brunswick’s best theatre content and artists; and to provide outstanding theatre training and performance that educates and awakens the imaginations of our youth and emerging artists.
TNB has three components: A professional season of live theatre which seeks to celebrate New Brunswick and Maritime playwrights, actors, designers, and other theatre artists; the Theatre School which trains close to 400 K-12 students each year in acting, musical theatre, and playwriting; and the Young Company
which brings plays to thousands of elementary, middle, and high school students across the province each winter, many of whom have never experienced live theatre before.
A Brief History
In 1961, the Beaverbrook Auditorium Act was created by the Legislature of the Province of New Brunswick to manage The Playhouse. With additional financial support from the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation and service clubs throughout the province, Theatre New Brunswick was officially created in 1969, and toured four productions to six cities, including Fredericton, from January to May.
In 1972, the auditorium was renovated into a 763-seat theatre with a fly gallery. In 2000, the City of Fredericton purchased The Playhouse, and Theatre New Brunswick formally became a separate entity.
Since Theatre New Brunswick’s first season in 1969, hundreds of artists, crafts people and administrators as well as thousands upon thousands of audience members, in fact a generation raised on TNB, have contributed to it’s over 225 Main Stage productions. Half of these have been Canadian plays or adaptations by Canadian writers and over 20 have been world premieres; works that nurtured the collaborative team of Alden Nowlen and Walter Learning, launched the plays of Norm Foster, gave us Marshall Button’s Lucien and most recently Allen Cole and Paul Ledoux’s The Bricklin: An Automotive Fantasy and Ryan Griffith's epic adventure Fortune of Wolves.
Artistic Directors
Walter Learning
1968-1978
Malcolm Black
1978-1984
Janet Amos
1984-1988
Sharon Pollock
1988-1990
Michael Shamata
1990-1995
Walter Learning
1995-1999
David Sherren
1999-2003
Scott Burke
2003-2005
Claude Giroux
2005-2007
Leigh Rivenbark
2007-2009
Caleb Marshall
2009-2014
Thomas Morgan Jones
2015-2018
Natasha Maclellan
2018- present
Production History
2023-2024
Wood Buffalo
All I Want For Christmas
Becca
Sidewalk Chalk
Beneath Springhill - The Maurice Ruddick Story
2022-2023
Bluebirds
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberly
Resident Aliens
S.T.O.P.
Altar
2021-2022
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly
2020-2021
Post Script
2019-2020
1979
It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Boys, Girls and Other Mythological Creatures
It's A Girl!
Heroine (postponed - COVID-19)
Annie (postponed - COVID-19)
2018-2019
Any Given Moment
Come Down From Up River
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
A Brief History of the Maritimes and Everywhere Else
Gretel and Hansel
Sania The Destroyer
2017-2018
Fortune of Wolves
A Christmas Carol
A Herman Tale
Goodbye Marianne
Finding Wolastoq Voice
Beauty and the Beast
2016-2017
A Sunday Affair
Ghost Light
The Snow Queen
The Damsel In Distress Who Saved Herself
The Boat
Shrek, The Musical
2015-2016
You Play Beautifully
Life, Death and the Blues
Vigil
Watching Glory Die
Little Women
The Space Between
Returning Fire
Marion Bridge
Mary Poppins
2014-2015
Frankenstein, The Man Who Became God
Somme Letters Home
A Christmas Carol
The Eight Fire
Beaverbrook
On A First Name Basis
The Drowsy Chaperone
2013-2014
RED
The Net, A Tragedy of the Sea
Miracle on 34th Street
Private Lives
The Last Five Years
2012-2013
Oleanna
Hilda’s Yard
It’s a Wonderful Life opened by Turcotte’s Triple Crown
Little Shop of Horrors
2011-2012
A Doll’s House ( co-production with Montgomery Theatre)
Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps opened by The Smokey Mokes
The Gifts of the Magi
The Dollar Woman
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)
2010-2011
Feelgood opened by The Truth is a Hard Flat Surface
Treasure Island opened by The Marketeer
Hockey Dreams
The Bricklin: An Automotive Fantasy (summer co-production with the Fredericton Playhouse)
2009-2010
Doubt A Parable opened by LaTour
It’s A Wonderful Life
Skin Flick opened by Bad Water
The Bricklin: An Automotive Fantasy (summer co-production with the Fredericton Playhouse)
2008-2009
The Rocky Horror Show
Narnia
Tuesdays With Morrie
2007-2008
Forever Plaid
A Christmas Carol
The Love List
2006-2007
The Graduate
2005-2006
Here on the Flight Path
Pinocchio
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again
2004-2005
Chairmaker
Cricket on the Hearth
Mary’s Wedding
Oh, Coward
Lucien Snowbird
2003-2004
The Hobbit
Dear Santa
Vinci
Wingfield on Ice
2002-2003
The Secret Garden
Art
Jasper Station
2001-2002
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Anne
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
2000-2001
Song for a New World
Ethan Clamore
The Attick, the Pearls & Three Fine Girls
The Drawer Boy
Wingfield Unbound
1999-2000
The Woman in Black
A Christmas Carol
Drinking Alone
The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux
I Do! I Do!
1998-1999
The Last Tasmanian
Driving Miss Daisy
Peter Pan
The Foursome
Skylight
1997-1998
Beauty and the Beast
Thirteen Hands
The Wild Guys
Sleuth
1996-1997
Office Hours
Kringle’s Window
Misery
The Americans Are Coming
Billy Bishop Goes to War
1995-1996
I’ll Be Back Before Midnight
Steel Magnolias
A Gift to Last
The Gin Game
Rock and Roll
Lend Me a Tenor
1994-1995
Yard Sale
A Christmas Carol
If We Are Women
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
Letter from Wingfield Farm
1993-1994
Lucien 2 – Lucien’s Labour Lost
The Secret Garden
A Streetcar Named Desire
Safe Haven
Shirley Valentine
1992-1993
Wrong for Each Other
The Winter’s Tale
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Italian American Reconciliation
Wingfield’s Folly
1991-1992
The Motor Trade
Dracula
Gunmetal Blues
The Secret Rapture
Wingfield’s Progress
1990-1991
The Affections of May
A Christmas Carol
Bordertown Cafe
Ghosts
Letter from Wingfield Farm
1989-1990
Crimes of the Heart
Salt Water Moon
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Loot
Memories of You
Four the Moment
The Second City – Presented by Toronto Touring Company
1988-1989
Blood Relations
Scapino!
The Road to Mecca
Agnes of God
The Kite
The Faith Healer
You Strike the Woman, You Strike the Rock – Vusisizwe Players of South Africa
Getting it Straight
Judge Prouse Presiding
The Second City – The Toronto Touring Company
1987-1988
My Darling Judith
Guys and Dolls
McClure
Lucien
The Corn Is Green
Corpse!
My Memories of You – Prairie Theatre Exchange co-production
Lockhartville
1986-1987
Jitters
The Best of Tap – The National Tap Dance Company
Zero Hour – Enterprise Theatre co-production
The Little Foxes
Educating Rita
A Child Is Crying on the Stairs – Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre co-production
The Black Bonspiel of Wullie Maccrimmon
1985-1986
Garrison’s Garage
Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!
Female Transport
The Mystery of the Oak Island Treasure
The Tomorrow Box
The White Dogs of Texas
Family Trappings
Lucien
Don Messer’s Jubilee
1984-1985
The Melville Boys
I’ll Be Back Before Midnight
Scrooge
A Taste of Honey
Country Hearts
1983-1984
Sinners
The Little Sweep
Count Dracula
Duet for One
Candida
1982-1983
Memoir
Life with Father
Mass Appeal
The Impresario / The Diary of Adam and Eve from the Apple Tree
Arms and the Man
1981-1982
Talley’s Folly
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
Murder Game (W)
Side by Side by Sondheim
Wuthering Heights
1980-1981
A Christmas Carol
Billy Bishop Goes to War
Chapter Two
The Miracle Worker
1980
Hansel and Gretel – Guelph Spring Festival co-production
On Golden Pond
Free at Last
Twelfth Night
The Glass Menagerie
Eight to the Bar
1979
The Au Pair Man
Waiting for Godot
Macbeth
The Return of A.J. Raffles – Neptune Theatre co-production
The Subject Was Roses
Same Time Next Year
18 Wheels
1978
The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca (included tours of Atlantic Canada and Ontario)
Vanities
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead – Centaur Theatre Production
The Norman Conquests
Man of La Mancha
1977
The Dollar Woman
The Taming of the Shrew
The Price
Made in Heaven
One Night Stand
Equus
1976
The Servant of Two Masters
The Diary of Anne Frank
Godspell
Relatively Speaking
Wait Until Dark
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (included a week run in Halifax)
Daughter-in-law
1975
The School for Scandal
Godspell
Sleuth
The Man Most Likely To
The Innocents
A Flea in Her Ear
Frankenstein (Atlantic Provinces Tour)
1974
Death of a Salesman – Toured to Bastion Theatre, Victoria
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Born Yesterday – Bastion Theatre
The Fantasticks
Frankenstein – The Man Who Would Be God (W)
The Fourposter – Toured to Bastion Theatre and Vancouver Island
Head, Guts and Soundbone Dance
1973
How the Other Half Loves
Leaving Home
The Caretaker
Dracula
The Patrick Pearse Motel
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Othello
1972
Butterflies Are Free – Produced in Campbellton
The Country Girl – Produced in Campbellton
Philadelphia, Here I Come – Produced in Campbellton
The King and I – First Production in Newly Renovated Playhouse
The Lion in Winter
Present Laughter
The Secretary Bird
1971
A Man for All Seasons
The Mousetrap
The Playboy of the Western World
Plaza Suite
1970
Two for the Seesaw
There’s a Girl in My Soup
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Black Comedy
A Resounding Tinkle
Private Lives
Mary, Mary
Dial ‘M’ for Murder
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