In an online announcement, Neptune Theatre’s artistic director, Jeremy Webb, announced the Halifax professional theatre company’s 2025-2026 season. The 12-show season includes the musicals Mamma Mia! and The Wizard of Oz, along with other Broadway hits, partnerships with theatres nationwide, dramas, comedies, and classics such as Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
There are shows this season that will have you wheezing with laughter, crying both joyful and sorrowful tears, and experiencing moments of absolute magic. It’s going to be epic. – Jeremy Webb
“This season, we want to remind audiences that there’s truly ‘no place like home,’ here at Neptune Theatre,” says Neptune’s artistic director, Jeremy Webb, in a media release.
“I’m so excited to share this lineup of stellar programming with everyone. There are shows this season that will have you wheezing with laughter, crying both joyful and sorrowful tears, and experiencing moments of absolute magic. It’s going to be epic.”
First up is the mega-musical Mamma Mia! (Jul 1-Aug 31, 2025). Featuring the songs of ABBA, it is the story of a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father, who brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago.
In conjunction with the Prismatic Arts Festival, Bear Grease (Sep 30-Oct 5, 2025) takes the 1978 musical Grease on an Indigenous joyride that keeps the authenticity alive while adding a burst of cultural flair.
Next is the premiere of Lisa Nasson’s Mischief (Sep 23-Oct 12, 2025), in which Brooke struggles to reconcile her Mi’kmaw heritage and living in a place founded by a British military officer hell-bent on destroying her ancestors.
In October comes Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy How The Other Half Loves (Oct 21-Nov 9, 2025), which follows three married couples whose lives are hopelessly entwined.
This holiday season, Neptune presents the stage musical The Wizard of Oz (Nov 4, 2025-Jan 4, 2026). When a tornado sweeps young Dorothy Gale over the rainbow, she lands in the magical land of Oz. Along with Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, she must follow the Yellow Brick Road to find the Wizard of Oz, who can send her back home to Kansas.
Back again this year for its 22nd year is A Christmas Carol (Nov 27-Dec 28, 2025), a one-person version of Dickens’s tale of Ebenezer Scrooge who, on a fateful Christmas Eve, meets the three ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
Starting the New Year is Rose Napoli’s Mad Madge (Jan 20-Feb 8, 2026), a bawdy comedy loosely based on history that pays homage to Jane Austen and Tina Fey in the same breath.
Then, in February, Neptune presents Cult Play (Feb 3-15, 2026), a multimedia solo show that explores the complex interplay of desire and deception, complicity and choice.
Also in February comes Edward Albee’s classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Feb 24-Mar 15, 2026). This dark comedy, which has resonated across the decades since it was first written in 1962, is an acerbic, vicious, but always hilarious battle of wills.
Next is Mark Crawford’s one-person comedy Chase the Ace (Mar 24-Apr 12, 2026), the story of a big-city radio personality who loses his job hosting a hit morning show and is forced to take a job managing a small-town radio station.
In April comes The Ghost of Violet Shaw (Apr 28-May 24, 2026), a Victorian-era farce that follows the Bennett family as they deal with their so-called ‘family curse’.
Currently under wraps, Neptune Theatre will reveal its season-ending musical (Mar 31-May 24, 2026) on May 12, 2025.
Neptune Theatre’s 2025-2026 season subscriptions are now on sale. Single tickets will be available at a yet-to-be-announced date later this year. Visit neptunetheatre.com for more information.