Creativity has no expiry date! ™
Western Gold Theatre is the premier company in the country focused on sharing and celebrating the talents of senior professional theatre artists (age 55+). Western Gold also mentors emerging professional artists as they share the boards with us. We are a vibrant creative gathering place for artists and audiences, young and old.
Theatre is not a “job” where you punch a clock daily and then collect a gold watch on your 65th birthday— theatre people do not retire! Like good wine or a robust stew, we get better with age. As we simmer, our flavour deepens, we are more nuanced, more capable of being brave, better able to face challenging work. And one thing is for sure, older people are the best storytellers ever! We celebrate this.
Tanja Dixon-Warren – Artistic Director
YOU WON’T BELIEVE THIS, BUT . . .
ARTIST SALON
Theatrical bon mots and bubbles with Bernard Cuffling
A FUNdraiser for Western Gold Theatre
TWO SALONS
Sunday, July 6 at 1:00PM & 7:00PM
LOCATION
PAL Studio Theatre
581 Cardero Street, Vancouver
Gather with friends in the beautiful PAL rooftop garden to join beloved Vancouver actor and raconteur Bernard Cuffling for prosecco and sweet treats before convening in the theatre to be regaled with stories and anecdotes of his life on the boards: his mishaps, his triumphs, and, of course, his brush with Ginger Rogers! Informal, intimate – a true tête-à-tête!
TICKETS $60
Includes complimentary glass of Prosecco, plus a selection of curated cheeses, fruits and desserts
Cash bar
Thank you to our Community Partner CTORA
for their generous support of this FUNdraiser!
PONY UP FOR GOLD!
COMMUNITY DAY AT THE TRACK
FUNdraiser for Western Gold Theatre
DATE & TIME
Saturday, September 13, 2025
LOCATION
Hastings Racecourse
188 N Renfrew St
Vancouver, BC
Put on your ascot ties and fascinators! If you haven’t got one – not to worry, you can make one on the day!
Western Gold has exclusive use of the MARQUEE TENT at Hastings Race Track – so consider the odds, place your bets, and hope to win hands-down in the home stretch.
Harness up for an afternoon of fun, food, entertainment, and celebrating everything golden at Hastings Racecourse!
Food included | Cash bar
LIMITED TICKETS! GET YOURS NOW
WESTERN GOLD’S 2025 SEASON
It’s all about love and living life with love: its complexities, complications, and the many forms love takes! It’s about pushing back, standing up, and daring to go forward. It’s about celebrating great playwrights (the majority Canadian – yay!) and creative thinkers, and it’s about art, words, each other, and how we dance together.
March 14 – 16, 2025
Two Short One-Acts: A Classic Farce Double Bill!
The Marriage Proposal
by Anton Chekhov; adapted by Jay Brazeau
This classic, fast-paced, and farcical screwball comedy is all about the business of love.
Overruled
by George Bernard Shaw
A zany, humorous and thought-provoking exploration of marriage and fidelity.
Two OOF! (On Our Feet) Staged Readings
MAY 8 – 25, 2025
Here We Go
by Caryl Churchill
A funeral party for a man with an adventurous past and a ginger cat that needs a home. Written by one of the world’s premier living female playwrights, Here We Go is a humourous, moving contemplation of our own mortality.
Mainstage Presentation
October 3 – 5, 2025
Home
by Melody Anderson
This broad, farcical revenge comedy features an elderly woman who seeks justice after the death of her husband and a subsequent home invasion. Equal parts hilarious and compassionate—prepare to be tickled!
Part of the Have a Senior Moment Festival
OOF! (On Our Feet) Staged Reading
November 6 – 23, 2025
Gertrude and Alice
by Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry, Karin Randoja
Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas recount their forty-year relationship, their famous Paris salons where a who’s who of artists gathered, and Alice’s overwhelming, consuming devotion to Gertrude’s genius. They survived WW2 in Paris. Now they want to find out how their lives are – or are not – remembered. Nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award (2018)
In partnership with Touchstone Theatre and in association with United Players of Vancouver
Main Stage Production
Contact Us
Phone: 604-363-5734
Email: [email protected]
Mailing Address:
PO Box 93513,
Vancouver RPO Nelson Park, BC V6E 4L7
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Supported By
The McGrane-Pearson Endowment Fund,
held at Vancouver Foundation
Stewart Fund,
held at Vancouver Foundation
McLean Foundation
Community Partners
We gratefully acknowledge that we are on the traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam),Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. We deeply thank them for so generously allowing us to live, work, and play on their beautiful lands.
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