2025 has been a wonderful year for the DCT! When we look back on everything we accomplished, there was one thing that was always there…YOUR support of live theatre in Dunnville! We couldn’t have done it without you.
Murder at the Mudcat Mardi Gras (in partnership with the Dunnville Chamber of Commerce for Mudcat Festival)
Dunnville Lions’ Club Home and Garden Show
DCT Drama Camp
Murder’s in the Heir (a new partnership with St. Michael’s Parish at their Parish Hall)
We have already started planning our 2026 season, so make sure you check in often to see what’s new and for audition information!
Thank you again from the bottom of our hearts for your continued enjoyment of local theatre and we will see you in the New Year! Stay healthy and safe!
A big thank you to the Dunnville Public Library for letting us display photos and memorabilia from Dunnville Community Theatre’s 50th Anniversary. These items will remain on display for the next few weeks so please, drop by the Library and have a look through the many photo albums, posters and theatre programs from the last 50 years!
In January of 2025 we let our community know about the history of our club by having a display of our 50 years of achievements in the Dunnville Public Library
April 25 & 26 we had an impressive booth at the Dunnville Lions’ Home and Garden show to advertise our club, our Drama Camp and our Kids Zone production – which you can see during the Mudcat Festival on June 14th in Central Park
June 20, 21 & 22 we will be performing our play Murder at the Mudcat Mardi Gras. This is a fun and funny murder mystery where you get to guess who the murder(s) is/are. Friday and Saturday will be dinner theatres, Sunday will be a luncheon. Every show will have a lovely meal catered by Debb’s, with the sale of liquor available at each.
August 18- 22 and 25-29 we will be hosting our annual drama camp for students who will be attending grades 4 to 9 in September of that year. Classes are limited to 15 students per class.
In November we will be performing a Murder Mystery which allows the audience to choose the ending they would like to see. This is a new foray for us and it will be directed by our newest director Gordon Huffman. It should be very interesting. This will be performed over 2 weekends with Saturdays being dinner theatres and the other performances being standard evening or matinee performances.
For more information about any of these things please send an email to info@dct73.com
NEXT – Dunnville Community Theatre takes it on the road
In this year of our 50th Anniversary we had a special opening event: a traveling show presenting a home grown play called NEXT. The play was a comedy about, well, speed dating and grief. We know that doesn’t sound very funny but it was.
The play’s synopsis: When 12 lonely people, at loose ends with their lives attend a disorganized speed dating event, at a local pub, it takes a missing person and Tom Jones to help them see that they might be in the wrong place at the right time.
Oh what fun we had! This year we ran drama camp at full capacity and it was a wonderful experience for students, helpers, our most excellent teachers Ellie Bloomfield and Dana Hauser. It takes a village of volunteers to provide this fully funded exuberantly fun program to the youth of Haldimand County.
We are so grateful for the generous funding we received (again) from the Rotary Club of Dunnville and for our sponsorships from Hauser’s Pharmacy (again) and Wes Moodie (also again). With out the fantastic support from our community we could not make this happen and it is SOOOO worth it!
Thank you for supporting live theatre in Dunnville!
What do you get when you put together Christmas Eve at the Cooked Goose Tavern, Ebenezer Pennypincher and a ghostly apparition bent on revealing the truth? A wonderful mixture of delicious food and lots of fun!
Join us as we close our 50 Years of Live Theatre celebration with a murder mystery dinner and luncheon, where you put on your detective hats and help us solve the crime.
Before the show, we encourage you to view memories of past productions at your leisure, purchase tickets for our Penny Sale and perhaps put in a bid on a beautiful Jim Camelford print in our Silent Auction.
We are so excited for this time of celebration! Be sure to get your tickets soon. Tickets must be purchased by November 8 and seating is limited for each performance.
It’s Christmas Eve and the grand opening of “The Cooked Goose” Tavern. Your hosts, Agnes and Ebenezer Pennypincher, are on hand to make sure you enjoy your evening. However, there is someone else attending who has a different idea.
The DCT is thrilled to announce our November production of “The Diary of a Burning Woman”, a Murder Mystery dinner/theatre and luncheon/theatre, as the finishing piece of the celebration of our 50 Years of Live Theatre!
As well as wonderful food and show, each performance will have the added features of a Penny Sale (the winner of each item will be announced at the final show on Sunday), a Silent Auction of a Jim Camelford print at each performance, and 50 years of memories with a screening of pictures. We encourage you to come early to reminisce with us!
Tickets must be purchased by Friday, November 8
Get your tickets soon! Spaces are limited to 80 people per show.
Only 5 tickets left! Friday, November 15– Doors open at 5:30pm, dinner and show start at 7:00pm. Dinner is catered by Debb’s Cuisine and will be Christmas-themed. Tickets are $65.00 pp. Cash bar.
Only 3 tickets left! Saturday, November 16 – Doors open at 5:30pm, dinner and show start at 7:00pm. Dinner is catered by Debb’s Cuisine and will be Christmas-themed. Tickets are $65.00 pp. Cash bar
SOLD OUT!Sunday, November 17 – Doors open at 12:00pm, luncheon and show start at 1:30 pm. Luncheon is catered by Carol’s Kitchen. Tickets are $45.00. Not a licensed event.
Cash, Debit and Credit Cards will be accepted at the venue.
These guys had a fantastic time learning and playing while gaining confidence in their capabilities.
Good news everybody Class Act returns.
Dunnville Community Theatre will be hosting Drama Camp again this summer. We are thrilled by this because we know how good this is for our community and for the youth who participate.
Date are:
August 19-23 – for youth entering grades 4-6 in September 2024
August 26-30 – for youth entering grades 7-9 in September 2024
All classes will be held in the upstairs hall of the Optimist Club in Dunnville – 101 Main St E. Applications are available at Dunnville Library or by e-mailing dramacamp-24@dct73.com
This program is fully funded and includes snacks during nutrition break.
DCT is looking for 15 actors to play characters from the ages of 18-80 in our home grown 1 Act Play called NEXT.
In a nut shell the play is about this:
When 12 lonely people, at loose ends with their lives attend a disorganized speed dating event, at a local pub, it takes a missing person and Tom Jones to help them see that they might be in the wrong place at the right time.
DCT is doing something a little differently for our up coming production of NEXT . Since we require 15 actors for this play, we would like to ensure that we are making good use of everyone’s valuable time by scheduling half hour time slots for people to audition. So we are asking people to register.
You may register for an audition by coming to our registration session on Monday January 15th from 6:30-9:30 pm at the Optimist Hall of Dunnville OR you may request a registration form by e-mailing next@dct73.com. Why come in person? You get to meet the writers, ask questions and introduce yourself in person. You will also get a look at our rehearsal space.
The play will be performed at these places on these dates:
Dunnville Airport Museum RCAF#6: June 14 & 15, 2024
Fisherville Lions’ Community Centre: June 22, 2024
Jarvis Lions’ Community Centre: September 14, 2024
Most characters will have dialogue of 3-5 minutes so this is a great place to begin if you are new to the stage.
We hope to see you come out and join what should be a fantastic event!
If you have any questions that are not answered here you can call
2023 opened with Having Hope at Home a funny & charming story of a daughter wishing to give birth at home, while trying to convince her obstetrician father that it was the right choice to make.
As part of our 50th anniversary celebration DCT entered a float into the Dunnville Mudcat parade this year. The theme was Rock & Roll. We did our best to represent rocks stars from the last 5 decades. We may have fallen a little short but we sure had fun!
Thanks to the generosity of our sponsor, Liz Koster and the loan of the great trailer from Ed Robinson Homes and the Art work from our pal Judy, the float looked pretty good.
Drama Camp 2023 was a great success again this year. We had 2 great classes and 3 awesome sponsors (The Rotary Club of Dunnville, Hauser’s Pharmacy & Wes Moodie Realty) to make this happen. And once again we had lots of learning and even more fun! Don’t miss this annual event. Last 2 weeks of every August.
For our Fall production we choose to do The Lion in Winter. A period piece with great costumes and lots of drama. There was also excellent humour in this play with truly wonderful performances by the hard working and talented cast. The venue – Knox Presbyterian church in Dunnville provided an atmosphere that made the audience feel like they were actually in a castle. We also had great sponsors for this show.
