UPCOMING SHOWS
NEXT UP: The 2nd Annual Queer Cabaret
June 21-22, 2024
The 2nd Annual Queer Cabaret
Please note: This is a 19+ Event. A cash bar and light refreshments will be available.
The 2nd Annual Queer Cabaret is a celebration featuring artists from our local 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Through drama, dance, poetry, music, monologues, drag and burlesque (and more!) we will create a collective show presented in the Mariposa Arts Theatre Centre in an intimate cabaret setting
Our 2024 - 2025 Season
Stay tuned for more updates and audition notices!
"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?
Perhaps they are us.
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
November 7-17, 2024
Gypsy: A Musical Fable
Book: Arthur Laurents | Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim | Music: Jule Styne
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.
February 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 an elementary school. The work at hand: creating a First Thanksgiving pageant to celebrate Native American Heritage Month that won’t ruffle any feathers.
April 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.