THE 2025-2026 MAINSTAGE SEASON

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More than any other popular songwriter in recent memory, Harry Chapin was a storyteller. He celebrated the extraordinary lives of ordinary folk, and whether through comedy or pathos, reminded us of a shared emotional heritage. Here, the most inherently theatrical of Chapin's narrative pieces have been assembled, allowing the stories within them to dictate their own dramatic shape.

Lies and Legends – The Musical Stories of Harry Chapin
Musical Arrangements by Stephen Chapin & Tom Chapin
Original Creative Consultant Sandy C. Chapin
Original Concept by Joseph Stern
Jul 17-Aug 2, 2025
Magnus Theatre Outdoor Stage
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Three lonely oddballs – an academic primatologist, an excited podcaster, and a dimwitted intern - are trapped in a remote British Columbia Park Ranger station for six weeks, all searching for one thing: Bigfoot. But each of the hunters is in turn searching for more than just a sasquatch sighting. Do they need Acceptance, Fame, Adventure, Love? Or will they find that life is truly more about searching than finding? This goofy and silly new play kicks off the 2025-2026 Mainstage Season.

Bigfoot!
By Ephraim Ellis
Sep 25-Oct 11, 2025
Magnus Theatre Mainstage
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Big-city radio personality Charlie King just lost his job hosting a hit morning show. And his long-term relationship exploded in a spectacularly embarrassing on-air meltdown. When he's forced to take a job managing a small-town station, he has no idea what’s in store! Not only does a global pandemic begin his first week in Port Belette, he quickly finds himself chasing a story of municipal corruption. Chase the Ace is a hilarious one-man comedy about a down-on-his-luck DJ, a local lottery, and the search for truth in unprecedented times.

Chase the Ace
By Mark Crawford
Oct 30-Nov 15, 2025
Magnus Studio Theatre
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A group of actors are preparing to do another annual production of A Christmas Carol.  However, instead of performing Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday classic for the umpteenth season, they decide to perform every Christmas story ever told -- plus Christmas traditions from around the world, seasonal icons from ancient times to topical pop-culture, and every carol ever sung. A madcap romp through the holiday season in the spirit of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some)
By Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald & John K. Alvarez
Dec 4-20, 2025
Magnus Theatre Mainstage

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A mystery comedy thriller by Drew Hayden Taylor.  On a cold winter’s night, a young Indigenous couple breaks into a rural cottage to recover and seek help after their car has crashed through the ice on a lake.  They are discovered by the cottage owners, who offer to help but appear to have something more sinister in mind. Is anything an accident? Will anyone survive the night? And who is hiding what from whom? An edge-of-your-seat comedy thriller for the dead of February.

On Thin Ice (World Premiere)
By Drew Hayden Taylor
Feb 12-28, 2026 
Magnus Theatre Mainstage

 

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The thrilling rock opera based on the final week in the life of Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ Superstar has wowed audiences for over 50 years. This all new production will raise the roof of the Magnus Mainstage, exploring the story on a level that transcends notions of traditional gendered roles.

Jesus Christ Superstar
By Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Mar 26-Apr 18, 2026
Magnus Theatre Mainstage

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Having met in a pub, two sixty-something writers arrive in an old house to continue drinking and talking into the night. All might be well, until the return home of two prickly younger men who bring forth their realities, memories, inclinations, and claims for recognition. Their relationships are exposed, with menace and hilarity, in one of Harold Pinter's most entertaining plays.  This exploration of being caught between brute reality and fluid uncertainty is an allegory for our time and will give audiences in the Studio Theatre an intimate and thought-provoking experience.

No Man's Land
By Harold Pinter
May 7-23, 2026
Magnus Studio Theatre