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
WESTERN GOLD’S 2026 SEASON
Our 2026 season is all about navigating life! Embracing the complexities, complications, and the many paths life takes! It’s about sitting in it, pushing back on it, mapping it, re-visiting it, standing up to it, getting lost in it, and daring to walk in it. Celebrating great playwrights (the majority Canadian – yay!), it’s about art, words, each other, and how we dance together!
Scroll down to see the lineup!
DISCOUNTED EARLY BIRD SEASON TICKETS ON SALE UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2025!
2025 ONLINE AUCTION FUNDRAISER!
OUR 2025 ONLINE AUCTION FUNDRAISER OPENS NOVEMBER 8 AT MIDNIGHT!
It’s that time of the year again to launch our ONLINE AUCTION FUNDRAISER!
It runs from November 8 at midnight to November 30 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 2026 season of live theatre and online offerings.
WHAT’S THERE TO BID ON? SOOO MUCH GREAT STUFF!!
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 beloved Vancouver actor Bernard Cuffling!
Strike the Yukon off your travel bucket list with 2 round-trip tickets via Air North
Have two nights in paradise at a beautiful waterfront B&B on Gambier Island
Actors! Get two hours of theatre/film audition coaching with Kathleen Duborg
Enjoy fine art, dining out, theatre or dance tickets . . . AND SO MUCH MORE!!
ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, BID AND BID AGAIN FOR A GREAT CAUSE!
LUCKY 50/50 RAFFLE – WINNER TAKES HALF!
If you’ve been to a Western Gold production, you know we always hold a fundraising raffle where you can buy tickets in the lobby. Now, you can buy you tickets online too!!
1 for $5
3 for $10
7 for $20
Maximum Prize: $3400.00
Winner will be notified by November 23, 2025
Winners consent to the release of their name by the licensee. Ticket purchasers must be 19 years of age or older. If a winning ticket bears a minor’s name, the prize will be lawfully delivered on behalf of the minor to the minor’s parent, legal guardian, or trustee.
MAINSTAGE SHOW ON NOW!
November 6 – 23, 2025
Western Gold presents
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
WESTERN GOLD’S 2026 SEASON
March 13 – 15, 2026
THE STRANGER
by Agatha Christie
Written by the queen of crime, one of the most prolific authors of all time, THE STRANGER is an intimate psychological thriller with a number of well-placed red herrings. Things are not always what they seem. Keep your eyes peeled and your ear to the ground. Fun!
OOF! (On Our Feet) Staged Reading
May 21 – June 9, 2026
SALT-WATER MOON
by David French
It’s a splendid moon-filled night in Coley’s Point in 1926. 18-year-old Jacob Mercer has returned from Toronto to the tiny Newfoundland outport, hoping to win back his former sweetheart, Mary Snow.
Mainstage Presentation
September 25 – 27, 2026
HOW OSCAR MISSED HIS TRAIN
by John Lazarus
In 1882, 27-year-old Oscar Wilde accomplished a hugely successful year-long lecture tour of North America. Despite the numerous temptations offered by the continent’s great sin cities, the only place he got so distracted he missed his train connection was stuffy, straight, sober Kingston, Ontario. John Lazarus has concocted a freewheeling farcical account of what might have turned young Wilde’s head. World Premiere!
Part of the Have a Senior Moment Festival
OOF! (On Our Feet) Staged Reading
November 12 – 29, 2026
SANDSPRITE
by Peter Zednik
Teenage lovers Brogan and Si meet again after 50 years. Ancient truths unfold, triggering high camp and low blows, love bites, and bitters tears. Can their vastly different lives intersect with a happy ending? A comedy about coming out of the closet at any age—and at any cost.
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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