{"id":548278,"date":"2026-03-20T04:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548278\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T04:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:47:10","slug":"3-female-focused-plays-coming-to-surrey-in-2026-27-arts-club-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548278\/","title":{"rendered":"3 female-focused plays coming to Surrey in 2026-27 Arts Club series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              3 female-focused plays coming to Surrey in 2026-27 Arts Club series<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 2:50 pm Thursday, March 19, 2026<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Civic Theatres co-presents the annual series with Vancouver-based Arts Club Theatre Company.<\/p>\n<p>The just-announced shows for 2026-27 are Mom\u2019s the Word: Talkin\u2019 Turkey (mid-October dates at Surrey Arts Centre\u2019s 400-seat Main Stage theatre), Summer, 1976 (in January 2027) and Louisa May Alcott\u2019s Little Women (February\/March 2027).<\/p>\n<p>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 href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/arts-culture\/surrey-civic-theatres\/surrey-civic-theatres-presents-arts-club-on-tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a post on surrey.ca<\/a>. Call 604-501-5580 for details.<\/p>\n<p>Staged pre-Halloween, Mom\u2019s the Word: Talkin\u2019 Turkey is billed as a hilarious holiday hit created by the Mom\u2019s the Word Collective of Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard, Deborah Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA season of independence\u201d is promised in David Auburn\u2019s Summer, 1976, which sees free-spirited housewife Alice and serious single mother Diana forge an unlikely bond one summer. \u201cWhile 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,\u201d the city\u2019s website explains.<\/p>\n<p>Last of the three plays, Lauren M. Gunderson\u2019s Louisa May Alcott\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Look for the full Surrey Civic Theatres season of 2026-27 shows to be announced in spring or early summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 female-focused plays coming to Surrey in 2026-27 Arts Club series Published 2:50 pm Thursday, March 19, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-548278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}