Live Bait Theatre

Live Bait Theatre is a professional theatre company located in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.

Live Bait Theatre, based in Sackville, New Brunswick, is committed to enhancing the cultural life of the central Maritime region by providing entertaining and innovative professional theatre as well as a variety of other live performances including dinner theatre, comedy and live music.

Live Bait Theatre was founded and incorporated as a registered non-profit charitable organization in May of 1988. Although initially offering only a summer season, the company has been expanding into the winter months since taking over its own space in 2004.

The company has produced forty-five mainstage shows. Thirty-one of these were Canadian scripts. Twelve were developed and/or premiered at Live Bait including Jan Kudelka's American Demon, Pete Soucy’s Flux, Mark Blagrave’s We Happy Few, Geoff McBride’s Quit, Jenny Munday’s Relatively Harmless and Charlie Rhindress' The Maritime Way of Life, which was nominated as best new play at the Canadian Comedy Awards.



MANDATE
Live Bait Theatre, based in Sackville, New Brunswick, is committed to enhancing the cultural life of the central Maritime region by providing entertaining and innovative professional theatre as well as a variety of other live performances including dinner theatre, comedy and live music.

ARTISTIC MISSION STATEMENT
Live Bait Theatre aims to tell entertaining, thought-provoking stories with an emphasis on new Canadian scripts and plays that are new to the central Maritime region.
 
HISTORY
Live Bait Theatre was founded and incorporated as a registered non-profit charitable organization in May of 1988. Although initially offering only a summer season, the company has expanded into year round programming since moving into a permanent space in downtown Sackville in 2004.

The company has produced forty-nine mainstage shows. Thirty-four of these were Canadian scripts. Fourteen were developed and/or premiered at Live Bait including Jan Kudelka’s American Demon, Pete Soucy’s Flux, Mark Blagrave’s We Happy Few, Geoff McBride’s Quit, Jenny Munday’s Relatively Harmless and Charlie Rhindress’ The Maritime Way of Life, which was nominated as best new play at the Canadian Comedy Awards. Most recently we have premiered Charlie Rhindress’ The Heart That Knows, Don Hannah’s There is a Land of Pure Delight and The Adventures of Donna Earla by Mary Ellen MacLean.

Live Bait is committed to contributing to the canon of Canadian theatre by nurturing new plays and visionary artists. Live Bait Theatre is a registered non-profit charitable organization that operates under the guidelines and rules of the Independent Theatre Agreement of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.