Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre is a professional non-profit theatre society that seeks to provide:
- Significant creative, production and management opportunities to young theatre artists wishing to pursue a career in the arts.
- The opportunity for emerging artists to play major roles alongside of some of Canada’s most respected and established theatre artists.
- The people of Victoria its own professional theatre company that focuses on masterworks drawn from the classical and modern European and North American theatre traditions.
Located a short distance from the bridge after which it is named, Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre’s three play summer season takes place in the beautifully restored McPherson Playhouse. First opened in1914 as the Pantages Theatre, the playhouse was re-named after Thomas Shanks McPherson bequeathed the theatre and funding for its reconstruction to the people of Victoria. Considered by audiences, critics, and theatre artists to be one of most beautiful and acoustically friendly theatres in Canada, the “Mac” offers audiences a level of intimacy enjoyed only in the best historic theatres in the West End of London and Broadway.
- “This is very exciting news”
- Atom Egoyan, film, theatre and opera director - “the most important development in the Victoria arts scene in decades”
- Adrian Chamberlain, Victoria Times Colonist - “as good as any work you will see on any stage in Canada”
- David Lennam
The name Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre is inspired by the beauty and simplicity of the Joseph Strauss designed Johnson Street Bridge that defines the entrance to the Upper harbour in Victoria BC. Offering a unique and innovative way of spanning two parts of this modern day metropolis, this bridge is the perfect metaphor for a new company that provides opportunities to an emerging generation of theatre artists while helping to redefine the nature of it’s city’s downtown core.
Strauss is most famous for his design of the Golden gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Interior view of the main floor of the McPherson Playhouse stage where Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre presents its summer season.