Pat the Dog Theatre Creation

Pat the Dog Theatre Creation Pat the Dog is a Canadian playwright development centre dedicated to the support and advocacy of reg

It's our 20th!The 2026-27 season marks the 20th anniversary of Pat the Dog Theatre Creation - and we have a LOT of speci...
09/08/2026

It's our 20th!

The 2026-27 season marks the 20th anniversary of Pat the Dog Theatre Creation - and we have a LOT of special programming to celebrate.

Catch us this month at CREEKFEST The Creek Collective - Kitchener + LUMEN Create Waterloo with Pat the Dog Youth.

Humour creation sessions at PUNCH-UP + 🌟New🌟 COMEDY LAB with Amy Neufeld

Watch this space for announcement of our Special 🎄Holiday Events🎄at Studio Theatre Centre In The Square + Full Programming line-up for Femme Folks Fest 2027 + Playsmelter Tours, Northern ON's New Work Touring Network Sault Community Theatre Centre The Tamarack Festival Discover Sudbury.

We're excited!

Pat the Dog Theatre Creation
20th Anniversary Season
Waterloo Region + Northern ON

We are loving being in the gem that is ! Shadow play, acoustics and all the tech toys help Calling the Rock Home really ...
05/14/2026

We are loving being in the gem that is ! Shadow play, acoustics and all the tech toys help Calling the Rock Home really sing for the last stop on our first Playsmelter Tours - Northern ON's new English Language Touring Network for new works of theatre.

One more show Sault Ste. Marie before we head home. Tixs and more info in bio above.

Pic #1: Exploring the BIG space
Pic #2: Loving the shadow play.
Pic #3: Standing O from Opening Night audience in Sault Ste. Marie.

CALLING THE ROCK HOME
Northern Ontario Tour 2026

Timmins: April 27-30
Sudbury: May 5-8
Sault Ste. Marie: May 12+14

Our thanks to .heritage and the for their support of this new economic driver for arts in Northern ON.

We are loving our Sudbury run of Calling the Rock Home with Playsmelter Tours. ❤️Few pics from this week:Pic #1: Cast an...
05/08/2026

We are loving our Sudbury run of Calling the Rock Home with Playsmelter Tours. ❤️

Few pics from this week:

Pic #1: Cast and crew paying homage to Stompin' Tom. (L/R): .drinkwalter Lisa O'Connell .xo

Pic #2: ❤️❤️❤️ murals! Hometown's own Alex Trebek on taken from parking lot downtown branch.

Pic #3: Cast with playwrights' Father - he inspired 'Patrick' in Calling the Rock Home. (L/R) .drinkwalter Wallace Thistle .xo

Pic #4: Playwright in post-show congrats scrum.

Pic #5: Full, warm house at Bryston's cheering the cast.

One more show Suds!

CALLING THE ROCK HOME
Northern Ontario Tour 2026

Timmins: April 27-30
Sudbury: May 5-8
Sault Ste. Marie: May 12+14

Tixs and more info in bio above.

Opening Night standing ovation for the second leg of our CALLING THE ROCK HOME Northern ON Tour!❤️ Sudbury home of our p...
05/06/2026

Opening Night standing ovation for the second leg of our CALLING THE ROCK HOME Northern ON Tour!

❤️ Sudbury home of our playwright and a place where Pat the Dog has been nurturing and working with theatre artists since 2010. Feels good to be home.

Pic #1: Our Manly Men cast: .drinkwalter .xo

Pic #2: Our playwright Karen Thistle with her Father Wallace who inspired the play during the post-show scrum.

Pic #3: Mom and Dad with the lovely Toni (far R) owner of Golden Comb Salon ❤️

CALLING THE ROCK HOME
Northern ON Tour 2026

Sudbury: May 5-8 at 7:30PM
Bryston's on the Park
Copper Cliff, ON

We had a great visit with Shelly as we techedfor our Sudbury leg of Playsmelters Tours' CALLING THE ROCK HOME. We are l...
05/05/2026

We had a great visit with Shelly as we teched
for our Sudbury leg of Playsmelters Tours' CALLING THE ROCK HOME. We are loving our beautiful venue Bryston's on the Park (once the town's community hall prior to heritage renovations) in Copper Cliff, ON childhood home of our playwright.

❤️ for helping us spread the word of this original Northern ON play by a Northern ON playwright for Northern ON audiences.

Pic #1: CTV's Shelly sets the camera to catch our Men in action.
Pic #2: Interviewing playwright Karen Thistle
Pic #3: Interviewing actor who plays 'Joe'
Pic #4: Interviewing actor .drinkwalter who plays "Buddy"

Northern Ontarians' all. 🌟

CALLING THE ROCK HOME
Northern ON Tour 2026

Timmins: April 27-30
Sudbury: May 5-8
Sault Ste. Marie: May 12+14

Road Trip!Playsmelter Tours is on the road to our next stop. We loved playing and are headed into with CALLING THE ROC...
05/04/2026

Road Trip!

Playsmelter Tours is on the road to our next stop. We loved playing and are headed into with CALLING THE ROCK HOME and Professional Development Sessions for local artists.

Pic #1+2: Our Manly Men Cast
Pic #3+4: Iconic Timmins sites
Pic #5: Road pic from Onaping Falls .xo Lisa and

CALLING THE ROCK HOME
Northern ON Tour 2026

Timmins: April 27-30
Sudbury: May 5-8
Sault Ste. Marie: May 12+14

Hey Sudbury Artists! We're delighted to host .council Program Officer Michel Laforge for a Meet And Greet Lunchtime Info...
05/04/2026

Hey Sudbury Artists!

We're delighted to host .council Program Officer Michel Laforge for a Meet And Greet Lunchtime Info session this Thursday May 7. It's all part of the Playsmelter Tours Professional Development Sessions.

It's a perfect opportunity to learn more about funding opportunities at .council for local artists + get all your questions answered in a warm, casual lunchtime setting - and we provide the lunch!

Please register (so we order enough eats!) Registration link in bio above.

May 7 11:30am-1:30pm
Main Conference Room
Sudbury Public Library
74 MacKenzie St., Sudbury, ON.

We're coming Sudbury! Thanks to for helping us spread the word! ❤️Link in bio above to read the entire fantastic articl...
04/30/2026

We're coming Sudbury!

Thanks to for helping us spread the word! ❤️

Link in bio above to read the entire fantastic article.

CALLING THE ROCK HOME
Northern Ontario Tour 2026

Timmins: April 27-30
Sudbury: May 5-8
Sault Ste. Marie: May 12+14

Sudbury's own and Jessie Bergeron in conversation with the wonderful Daniel Aubin ❤️ talking about Calling the Rock H...
04/30/2026

Sudbury's own and Jessie Bergeron in conversation with the wonderful Daniel Aubin ❤️ talking about Calling the Rock Home, Playsmelter Tours and making art in Northern ON.

Link to interview in bio above.

CALLING THE ROCK HOME
Northern Ontario Tour 2026

Timmins: April 27-30
Sudbury: May 5-8
Sault Ste. Marie: May 12+14

One of the things we ❤️ most are the Talkbacks with our audience after performance. Last nights' post-show talkback of C...
04/30/2026

One of the things we ❤️ most are the Talkbacks with our audience after performance. Last nights' post-show talkback of Calling the Rock Home at was 🌟 case.

Thank you to the audience member who is a miner who shared his experience and thoughts on his work and how this play captured those often difficult to express feelings.

Thank you to the woman (who left Newfoundland as an 11-year old to settle and stay in Timmins) who shared the sense of tear leaving a home and culture she knew to come to a new landscape, and how this play captured and recalled all those newcomer feelings.

Thank you to our playwright Karen Thistle whose labours, diligence and dogged professionalism resulted in a new Canadian play that speaks to the people and places of Northern ON.

That's how you build our culture.

you are truly a Calling the Rock🌟star. (couldn't resist).

Pic #1: (L/R) .xo .drinkwalter

Thanks to and .heritage for their support of Playsmelters Tours. ❤️

CALLING THE ROCK HOME
Northern Ontario Tour 2026

Timmins: April 27-30
Sudbury: May 5-8
Sault Ste. Marie: May 12+14

Tixs and more info link in bio above.

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