3 female-focused plays coming to Surrey in 2026-27 Arts Club series
Published 2:50 pm Thursday, March 19, 2026
The next Arts Club On Tour season in Surrey will feature three plays celebrating the complexities of female relationships, with themes of friendship, motherhood and sisterhood.
Surrey Civic Theatres co-presents the annual series with Vancouver-based Arts Club Theatre Company.
The just-announced shows for 2026-27 are Mom’s the Word: Talkin’ Turkey (mid-October dates at Surrey Arts Centre’s 400-seat Main Stage theatre), Summer, 1976 (in January 2027) and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (February/March 2027).
Reduced-price subscription tickets are available until April 1, starting at $90 per seat for all three plays. Single show tickets go on sale in June, according to a post on surrey.ca. Call 604-501-5580 for details.
Staged pre-Halloween, Mom’s the Word: Talkin’ Turkey is billed as a hilarious holiday hit created by the Mom’s the Word Collective of Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard, Deborah Williams.
“A season of independence” is promised in David Auburn’s Summer, 1976, which sees free-spirited housewife Alice and serious single mother Diana forge an unlikely bond one summer. “While their young daughters play, they open up to each other about the realities of their lives and connect in ways that neither of them could have expected,” the city’s website explains.
Last of the three plays, Lauren M. Gunderson’s Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women follows independent Jo, traditional Meg, shy Beth and vivacious Amy as they navigate the difficulties of young adulthood during the Civil War. Despite having varying ideas of what it means to be a woman, the March sisters together find strength to forge their own paths.
Another Arts Club-produced show, The Gingerbread Men: A Holiday Cabaret, will return to Surrey Arts Centre for two performances on Dec. 19, 2026, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Look for the full Surrey Civic Theatres season of 2026-27 shows to be announced in spring or early summer.