Shows & Tickets
Our 2024 - 2025 Season
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"This season MAT is exploring the complex motivations, morality and nature of villainy. Who are the villains in our families, culture and memories? Do they create us? Motivate us?
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Perhaps they are us.
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This season we are bringing a classic musical tale, an exciting modern play and a timeless drama to Orillia audiences."
Stevie Baker, MAT Board President
Upcoming Shows
November 6-16, 2025
Jesus Christ Superstar
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber | Lyrics by Tim Rice
A timeless work, the rock opera is set against the backdrop of an extraordinary and universally known series of events but seen, unusually, through the eyes of Judas Iscariot. Loosely based on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Jesus Christ Superstar follows the last week of Jesus Christ’s life.
February 2026
WROL (Without Rule of Law)
By Michaela Jeffery
Convinced the world at large can’t be trusted to prioritize the well-being of adolescent girls in the event of a cataclysmic event (or just in general), a determined troupe of preteen “doomers” commit to preparing for survival in the post-collapse society they anticipate inheriting.​
Past Shows
April 3-13, 2025
A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams
This classic drama about the realities facing women in family and societal structures in the late 1940’s comes alive when older sister Blanche, forced to leave their grand ancestral home, comes to stay with her sister, Stella, and Stella’s working-class husband Stanley.
February 6-16, 2025
The Thanksgiving Play
By Larissa FastHorse
In this sharp, satirical, comedy, the first play produced on Broadway written by a Native American woman, four (very) well-intentioned theatre people walk into a high school drama classroom. The work at hand: creating a First Thanksgiving pageant for elementary school students to celebrate Native American Heritage Month that won’t ruffle any feathers.
November 7-17, 2024
Gypsy: A Musical Fable
Book: Arthur Laurents | Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim | Music: Jule Styne
Suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee
Original Production by David Merrick and Leland Hayward
Entire production originally directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins
Often referred to as the greatest American musical, Gypsy follows the dreams of supreme stage mother, Rose, as she tours her growing children through the vaudeville circuit of the 1920’s and the ever evolving demands and desires of show business. Based on the real memoirs of striptease legend Gypsy Rose Lee, Gypsy is a fascinating tale of greed, ambition, selfishness, showbusiness, and self-discovery.