2026 Korda Season
​​Korda Announces Thrilling 2026 Season of “Things That Go Bump in the Night… in the Heart… in the Mind!
Mix of Plays, Musicals, and Three Productions from Guest Directors
Korda Artistic Productions has a diverse slate of shows planned for 2026 that features an offering for every taste. The season will include an unforgettable classic from renowned French playwright Molière; a haunting award-winning memory play; an ingeniously dark and funny Canadian musical making its Windsor premiere; a summer season of offerings from Korda’s Founder; a timely and relevant award-winning play that is Korda’s first production of a work by Arthur Miller; the return of a campy and bloody Canadian musical based the cult classic Evil Dead film franchise; a new original panto that weaves together two literary classics – The Wizard of Oz and The Lord of the Rings – from the fantasy genre; and a popular new comedy that’s such a blockbuster title… that we can’t even tell you about it until later this year! The season also features three guest directors selected from Korda’s second public call for proposals. The full season will come to life on stage at the intimate KordaZone Theatre on Seminole Street.
“Korda's third decade of entertaining and thought-provoking theatre continues with a season of THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT… IN THE HEART… IN THE MIND,” says Korda Founder Tracey B. Atin. “We’re examining family dynamics, relevant global issues, mortality and morality, love and loss, and so much of the stuff that keeps us up at night. Korda continues its mission of bringing extraordinary, provocative, and challenging theatrical experiences to the community, while creating unique and important opportunities for creators from all backgrounds and all walks of life to tread the boards alongside us and make some magic together.”
Molière’s Tartuffe
January 30, 31 and February 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13 & 14, 2026
Written by Molière
Translated by Richard Wilbur
Directed by Jeff Marontate
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Korda’s season opens with renowned French playwright Molière's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by Richard Wilbur. The story takes place in the home of the wealthy Orgon, where TARTUFFE – a fraud and a pious imposter – has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnificently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house and then tries to marry his daughter, seduce his wife, and scrounge the deed to the property. Further complications arise courtesy of a visiting emissary from King Louix XIV. The script examines the evil that men can commit in the guise of religious fervor and the dangers that imperil those who would believe only what they choose to believe despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. A sparkling version of one of the great comedies of the French Theater. This unforgettable classic will be directed by Korda’s Resident Director Jeff Marontate, whose recent Korda directing credits include 2025’s Return to the Forbidden Planet and The Importance of Being Earnest, 2024’s Psycho Beach Party, and 2023’s The Rocky Horror Show.
“…an astonishingly delightful romp…” – New York Post.
“Stylish, bright, saucy.” – New York Journal-American.
“…a rollicking evening of grace and fun.” – Newsday (NY).
Dancing at Lughnasa
March 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 & 28, 2026
Written by Brian Friel
Directed by Dean Valentino
This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large. The action of the play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him: his mother and four maiden aunts. He is only seven in 1936, the year his elderly uncle, a priest, returns after serving for twenty-five years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony. For the young boy, two other disturbances occur that summer. The sisters acquire their first radio, whose music transforms them from correct Catholic women to shrieking, stomping banshees in their own kitchen. And he meets his father for the first time. Widely regarded as Brian Friel's masterpiece, this haunting play is Friel's tribute to the spirit and valor of the past. The play won the 1992 Tony Award® for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play, and was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best plays for 1991. DANCING AT LUGHNASA was selected as part of Korda’s second public call for production proposals and will be directed by Dean Valentino, who most recently directed 2025’s Murder on the Orient Express at Korda.
“The most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie.” – TIME Magazine
“…this play does exactly what theater was born to do, carrying both its characters and audience aloft on those waves of distant music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall.” – The New York Times
“This is no way a play to be missed—simply a wondrous experience. Experience it.” – New York Post.
Mystery Show
To Be Announced In Late 2025
April 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 30 and May 1 & 2, 2026
Directed by Rachel Hillis, with Tracey B. Atin
Produced by Joey Wright
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The details of Korda’s exciting April-May production will be announced later in 2025. Trust us – you don’t want to miss this blockbuster comedy! This thrilling show was selected as part of Korda's second public call for production proposals and will be directed by first-time Korda director, and frequent Korda contributor, Rachel Hillis.
Ride the Cyclone
June 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 & 27, 2026
Book, Music & Lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell
Originally Produced by Kevin McCollum and Morris Berchard
Originally Produced in Canada by Atomic Vaudeville
Directed by Jeremy Burke
Music Direction by Sam Bourque​
In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other – the chance to return to life. This popular musical is a funny, moving look at what makes a life well-lived! The show will be helmed by Korda Board Member Jeremy Burke, whose recent Korda directing credits include 2025’s The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals, 2024’s The Trench, and 2023’s Romeo & Juliet. This production will also be the Windsor premiere of this Canadian musical.
"Ingeniously dark and funny." – The Washington Post
"A wonderful, touching and memorable roller coaster ride of a theatrical experience, for teen and adult audiences alike. With the show’s supernatural atmosphere... this is, quite simply, a beautiful ‘Dream of Life’ come true." – Chicago Theatre Review
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"Both eerie and funny, as well as subversive, serious, touching, and great." – Vulture
Korda Summer Sessions
July and August 2026
Directed by Tracey B. Atin
Produced by the Extension-Korda Youth Players​
KORDA SUMMER SESSIONS will offer a mix of musical performances, productions, cabaret nights, special events, and the annual Extension-Korda Summer Camp. The season of experiences will be produced and managed by Korda Founder Tracey B. Atin, whose recent Korda directing credits include 2025’s Urinetown: The Musical, 2023’s Ordinary Days, and 2022’s Spring Awakening. Over the years this innovative summer program has provided countless opportunities for local artists to work on creating LIVE theatrical experiences, and for youth artists to work alongside mentors and peers to learn the ins and outs of operating, programming and performing in a true community theatre setting. Stay tuned for more information, including participation opportunities, as it becomes available.
All My Sons
September 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 & 26, 2026
Written by Arthur Miller
Directed by Chris Lanspeary
In 1947, Arthur Miller exploded onto Broadway with his first major work, ALL MY SONS, winning both the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play and the Tony Award® for Best Author. The play introduced themes that would preoccupy Miller throughout his career: the relationships between fathers and sons and the conflict between business and personal ethics. Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went back to business, making himself very wealthy in the ensuing years. A love affair between Keller’s son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Steve’s daughter; the bitterness of George Deever, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father’s partner free; and the reaction of Chris Keller to his father’s guilt escalate toward a climax of electrifying intensity. ALL MY SONS was the third title selected as part of Korda’s second public call for production proposals and will be directed by long-time Korda performer Chris Lanspeary.
“[Arthur Miller] has written an honest, forceful drama… a pitiless analysis of character that gathers momentum all evening and concludes with both logic and dramatic impact.” – The New York Times
“… you’ll also think about the current debate surrounding how we deal with past sinners of all stripes, and the moral rectitude of holding them accountable for their crimes.” – Daily News
“Capitalism, lies, betrayal, crime, corruption, and cover-ups – just another day on Capitol Hill? Or the issues bubbling beneath the surface of Arthur Miller’s surprisingly vital [nearly 80-year-old] drama…” – New York Stage Review
Evil Dead: The Musical
October 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 & 31, 2026
Book & Lyrics by George Reinblatt
Music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris & George Reinblatt
Based on Characters Created by Sam Raimi
By Special Arrangement with Renaissance Pictures, Ltd. & Studio Canal Image, S.A.
Directed by Joey Wright
Music Direction by Matt Vriesen
Choreography by Nathalie Mero
EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL takes all the elements of the cult classic films, The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness and combines them for one of the craziest, funniest, and bloodiest theatrical experiences of all time. Five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s all up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day. Blood flies. Limbs are dismembered. Demons tell bad jokes… and it’s all set to music. Song titles like “All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons” and “What the F**k was That?” will have audiences rolling in their seats and screaming for more and more blood. This is a pure comedy start to finish, while having cheeky fun with the horror genre all along the way. It’s also the only show with a “Splatter Zone” section of the audience that gets covered in fake blood. EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL is unlike any LIVE show you’ve ever seen. JOIN US!!!!!! The show returns to The KordaZone Theatre after our 2017 production, this time helmed by Korda Board Member Joey Wright, whose recent Korda directing credits include 2024’s The Three Musketeers, 2023’s The Best Man, and 2022’s Clue.
“The next Rocky Horror Show!” – The New York Times
“Bloody Awesome!” – The Globe and Mail
“A ridiculous amount of fun! A visual feast!” – Variety
“A good time for Deadites old and new!” – New York Press
“Camp and gore galore! EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL brings splatter to the B-Movie matter!” – NOW Magazine.
The Wizard of Orcs
An Original Holiday Panto
December 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 & 13, 2026
Book & Lyrics by Eric Miinch & Becca Miinch
Music by Becca Miinch
Directed by Eric Miinch
Music Direction by Becca Miinch
For the 2026 Season, Korda’s annual original holiday panto will be brought to life through the creative genius of Windsor Improv Theatre’s Eric Miinch and Becca Miinch. With this thrilling, hilarious, and unforgettable mash-up of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the story will be a fresh take on two epic and familiar fantasy tales. Expect silliness for the kids, naughty jokes for the grown-ups, bad drag, great music, magic, mayhem, golden rings, ruby slippers, and loads of audience participation for everyone in a goofy, delightful, all-ages musical production to close out the 23rd season in style.
“... the wink-winking and nudge-nudging will be family-friendly. Adults can enjoy the double entendres, but the slapstick and sight gags are fun for all ages.” – The Windsor Star​​
Rights and Acknowledgements
DANCING AT LUGHNASA, TARTUFFE, and ALL MY SONS are presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. www.dramatists.com.
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RIDE THE CYCLONE is presented through special arrangement with Broadway Licensing Global, 440 Park Avenue South, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10016. www.broadwaylicensing.com.
EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International, 423 West 55th Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10019. www.MTIShows.com.
Media Contact Details
& Resources
Korda Artistic Productions
Jeff Marontate, Resident Director
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All performances of all shows in the 2025 Season will take place at The KordaZone Theatre
2520 Seminole Street, Windsor, Ontario.
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Helpful Links​
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Musical Tickets: $30 General Admission.
Show Tickets: $25 General Admission; $20 Students & Seniors
Pay-What-You-Can nights once per production.
*TICKET PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE; PARTICULARLY FOR MUSICALS*
Purchasing Tickets Online: ShowPass links will be available online; One price point only.
Purchasing Tickets In Person: ½ hour before showtime; cash and debit only at the door.
Auditions/Directing: Opportunities posted to Korda’s website and socials (as available).​
