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
2024 ONLINE AUCTION FUNDRAISER!
OUR 2024 ONLINE AUCTION FUNDRAISER OPENS NOVEMBER 6 AT MIDNIGHT!
It’s that time of the year again to launch our ONLINE AUCTION FUNDRAISER!
It runs from November 6 at midnight to December 1 at midnight.
We would be ever-so-grateful were you to support WGT’s programming by bidding on one, or many, of the fabulous items that have been so generously donated to our cause!
Funds raised will be used specifically to cover the costs related to our Intergenerational Mentorship Program and Creative Access for Seniors Program along with production and artist costs for our 2025-26 season of live theatre and online offerings.
WHAT’S THERE TO BID ON? SOOO MUCH GREAT STUFF!!
Relax and unwind with a Gulf Islands Getaway at the lovely Saturna Lodge
Savor a chocolate tasting for 10 at Origins Chocolate Bar
Delight in Living Room Theatre with a theatrical evening like no other! Gather your friends together and host a beloved Vancouver actor: Bernard Cuffling!
Pamper yourself with a gift certificate to Sabai Thai Spa
Discover a new favourite in baskets of carefully curated wines
Actors! Get a deal on professional self-tapes at Shoreline Studios
Enjoy fine art, dining out, theatre tickets . . . AND SO MUCH MORE!!
ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, BID AND BID AGAIN FOR A GREAT CAUSE!
NEXT UP ON STAGE!
November 7 – 24, 2024
Tom Crean – Discovering Antarctica
Heroic Tales of Scott, Crean, and Shackleton
Written and performed by Aidan Dooley
Tom Crean, the intrepid Antarctic explorer and one of Ireland’s unsung heroes, is brought to life in this dramatic and humorous solo performance by Aidan Dooley.
Set during The Golden Age of Antarctic Exploration (1901-1916), discover the riveting stories of the only man who served standing alongside Scott and Shackleton in three of the most daring and challenging expeditions to the great white continent, including Shackleton’s ill-fated Endurance expedition.
Mainstage Production
VIRTUAL GOLD!
Looking for something fun to watch from the comfort of your own home? Take a look at our current VIRTUAL GOLD offerings!
If you missed seeing Kathryn Shaw’s hilarious new play SUPER SENIORS, you can watch the just-as-hilarious filmed version.
Nora Randall’s quirky 12-part series THE PINCH PENNY POKER PLAYERS CHRISTMAS LIGHT TOUR is perfect for getting into the spirit of the coming holiday season.
Welcome to Our 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
The Marriage Propossal
by Anton Chekhov; Newly adapted by Jay Brazeau
This classic, fast-paced, and farcical screwball comedy is all about the business of love.
OOF! (On Our Feet) Staged Reading
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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