Sudbury Theatre Centre
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The Sudbury Theatre Centre is a professional theatre company, located in Greater Sudbury, Ontario.
Following an Ontario government report in 1967 which recommended the creation of a theatre company in Sudbury, local arts patrons Sonja Dunn, Carolyn Fouriezos, Bill Hart, Bob Remnant and Peg Roberts raised funds to bring the Gryphon Theatre Company of Barrie to Sudbury for a production of Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn. That production was staged at Laurentian University's Fraser Auditorium in May of 1970.
Following that production, the Sudbury Theatre Centre was officially incorporated on September 14, 1971. Over the next number of years, the STC staged plays and children's theatre workshops at Fraser Auditorium, Cambrian College and the Inco Club.
In 1980, the city of Sudbury donated a parcel of municipal land on Shaughnessy Street near Civic Square to the STC for the construction of their own permanent theatre. Construction began in July of 1981, and the new facility was officially opened at the launch of the company's 1982 theatre season.
The company's 2005-06 season consisted of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, John MacLachlan Gray's Billy Bishop Goes to War, Peter Colley's When the Reaper Calls, David French's Of the Fields, Lately and the musical Little Shop of Horrors.
