Friday, December 2, 2022, 8pm Pay what you will Doors open at 7:30 pm
At the Empress Theatre.
Join Wolf Castle and the Olympic Symphonium as they deliver a unique fusion of Hip-Hop, Jazz and Classical. Local Acadian rapper Jono and Pabineau First Nation’s Raymond Sewell accompany the band as well, showcasing unique musical voices and perspectives in New Brunswick.
Pay What You Will
You may book a ticket for this performance, at no charge. When you attend the performance, we’ll provide you with an envelope, and will ask you to pay whatever amount you wish (based on your own individual experience) following the show, using cash, credit card or cheque. Ultimately, YOU decide the price of your tickets!
Rescheduled from 2022. Original tickets will be honored.
The Capitol Theatre and Tutta Musica are proud to partner to present THE SOUND OF MUSIC. This professional musical theatre production will be presented at the beautiful Capitol Theatre from February 25 to March 5, 2023.
The production is proud to welcome back many alumni cast members, some from the first production of The Sound of Music in 2016. The 2023 production will reunite Curtis Sullivan and Emma Rudy, who shared the Capitol stage in the 2019 production of Beauty and the Beast (as Gaston and Belle), this time playing Captain von Trapp and Maria.
Cast – The Sound of Music 2023 Maria Rainer – Emma Rudy Captain Georg von Trapp – Curtis Sullivan Max Detweiler – Andrew McAllister Elsa Schraeder – Véronique Hébert Liesl – Emma Vickers Rolf Gruber – Émilien Cormier Mother Abbess – Mélanie LeBlanc Sister Berthe – Caroline Coon Sister Margaretta – Bethany Robertson Sister Sophia – Aryelle Morrison Louisa – Chloë Gaudet and Élodie Gallant Brigitta – Gabriella Castro-Levesque and Ève-Line Belliveau Friedrich – Dominique Melanson Kurt – Mathias Goguen and Olivier Émond Marta – Molly Nelson and Sasha LeBlanc Gretl – Juliet Lockhart and Lauren Payne Franz – Jamie Cordes Herr Zeller – Matt Kinney Frau Zeller – Arianny Vicent Frau Schmidt – Mélanie Lavoie Baron Elberfeld – Ian MacGowan Baroness Elberfeld – Annette Crummey Admiral von Schreiber – Blair Lawrence Ursula – Aryelle Morrison
Ensemble Dorrie Brown, Louis Caissie, Madelaine Chaloux, Hilary Cole, Ellie Côté, Becky Forbes, Ethan Foster, Mia Guignard, Sarah Hackett, Dan Murphy and Alex Ryan.
A distinctly New Brunswick production This will be the sixth professional musical theatre partnership between Tutta Musica and the Capitol Theatre. The producers are aiming to reflect this community’s language duality and for the first time, incorporate some French language lyrics in sections of certain songs. “As New Brunswickers, it’s very common in our day to day lives to switch back and forth between French and English in the same conversation” commented Marshall Button. “We wanted to reflect our unique local flair in this show – to give a nod to our Francophone audiences who have supported these productions since the very beginning… a very good place to start.”
Music by RICHARD RODGERS Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II Book by HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSEL CROUSE Suggested by “The Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp
The story behind this world-renowned musical features a young postulant who proves too high-spirited for the religious life, is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval Captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of spirit, gradually captures the heart of the stern Captain, and they marry. Upon returning from their honeymoon, they discover that Austria has been invaded by the Nazis who demand the Captain’s immediate service in their navy. The family’s narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre.
December 15, 2022
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6:00 pm
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December 16, 2022
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5:00 pm
L’Acadie, ses histoires et ses mythes: A conversation between Maurice Basque and Mario Doucette will take place (in French) next Thursday, December 15 at 6 pm!
This conversation is in partnership with the Musée acadien de l’Université de Moncton as part of our Museum at Night series … Gallery by Night! We can’t wait to welcome you there!
This event is free and open to all!
Oeuvre : Mario Doucette, Melpomène accueille Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Geneviève & Matthieu’s installation-performance M. Gros is inspired by the Canadian investigative technique known as Mr. Big, which allows a police officer, undercover, to obtain a confession from a suspect of a serious unsolved crime. Led by shape-shifting characters, living sculptures, binomial weapons and a televisual sound environment, M. Gros tackles issues of identity such as surveillance, infiltration, idea theft and copying; but beyond the classics of investigative games, the story mostly stages a contemporary artistic flora.
The duo Geneviève & Matthieu, from Rouyn-Noranda, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, emerged in the late 1990s. Their work combines art, performance, music, and daily life. Using interdisciplinary practices, from happening to music composition and from performance to installation, this duo creates collective performances and stagings of sometimes festive but always human social scenes.
This project is presented as part of the Media Arts component of the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (VAM-FICFA). The exhibition will be on view from November 11 to December 18, 2022. Opening hours are from 1 to 4 p.m. from Tuesday to Sunday and until 8 p.m. on Thursdays.
Join us for a special in-conversation event between bestselling author Ann-Marie MacDonald and Mount Allison University literature professor and researcher Andrea Beverley! Books will be available for purchase from Tidewater Books.
November 12, 2022 1:30 p.m. Moncton Public Library Wheelchair accessible $ 15 Register on the Frye Website or over the phone at (506) 859-4389.
In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition. Charlotte, strong and insatiably curious, revels in the moorlands, and has learned the treacherous and healing ways of the bog from the old hired man, Byrn, whose own origins are shrouded in mystery. Her idyllic existence is shadowed by the magnificent portrait on the landing in Fayne House which depicts her mother, a beautiful Irish-American heiress, holding Charlotte’s brother, Charles Bell. Charlotte has grown up with the knowledge that her mother died in giving birth to her, and that her older brother, Charles, the long-awaited heir, died soon afterwards at the age of two. When Charlotte’s appetite for learning threatens to exceed the bounds of the estate, her father breaks with tradition and hires a tutor to teach his daughter “as you would my son, had I one.” But when Charlotte and her tutor’s explorations of the bog turn up an unexpected artefact, her father announces he has arranged for her to be cured of her condition, and her world is upended. Charlotte’s passion for knowledge and adventure will take her to the bottom of family secrets and to the heart of her own identity.
Trained in printmaking and photography with a BFA from the University of Moncton (2013), in her art practice Arsenault combines print and textile work with installation, video projections and sound art. Snippets of memories evoked from images and words drawn from archives and anecdotes account for her personal history and those of others, creating a fragmented and re-sewn narrative. The questioning of memory, its capacity for veracity or its unconscious distortions is at the heart of her research.
Arsenault currently works in Moncton, from the Aberdeen Cultural Centre. She has participated in several group exhibitions held in the Maritime Provinces, as well as solo exhibitions and creative residencies in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec. She has been working as the Curator of Community Engagement at the Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen since 2019, in addition to being an independent curator.
memorandum is a collaborative project that has been developing since 2021, and is a direct response to the isolation caused by the pandemic. Donations of sweaters and blankets knitted by members of various communities have been used as materials for the construction of a comfortable and safe space where individuals are encouraged to remember and let go. The knitted designs before their destruction are transformed into silkscreens, leaving a trace of their original form and function, as well as the words and thoughts left by the contributors. A projection shows the artist engaging in repetitive actions – a kind of self-soothing practice in a fit of anxiety.
This project is presentedas part of the Media Arts component of FICFA thanks to funding support from the Canada Arts Council, the Province of New Brunswick, the City of Moncton and ArtsNB.
One night 8 performances Saturday, November 26th 8PM show Salle Bernard-Leblanc Centre Culturelle Aberdeen 140 Botsford St, Moncton Voluntary contribution: All funds go to the artists!
November 1, 2022
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7:30 pm
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November 6, 2022
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9:30 pm
Bluebirds is set in Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay hopeful as the dangers of the front draw closer to their hospital. Through it all, the three women find friendship, independence, power, and influence in a place where men, once again, are trying to destroy the world.
November 12, 2022
1:30 p.m.
Moncton Public Library
Wheelchair accessible
$ 15
Register on the 
