Buddies in Bad Times Theatre announces first season under new leadership – Next Mag

Artistic director ted witzel to direct season opener by Bernard-Marie Koltès

A postmodern neo-noir, a world premiere from two of Canada’s premier drag artists and a co-production with Native Earth Performing Arts are the shows anchoring Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s 2024-25 season, its first under new leadership.

Today’s announcement follows a period of instability for Buddies: the world’s longest-running queer theatre company was without an artistic director between August 2020 and August 2023. The new leadership team includes artistic director ted witzel, artistic associate Erum Khan, operations director Kristina Lemieux and producer Aidan Morishita-Miki.

“The works in this season … seek out queerness not only as identity but as a way of being and acting in the world,” reads a press release sent out this morning. “Together Khan and witzel have pulled together works that gesture at audacious, poetic expressions of queerness, reaching toward the expansive and the divine.”

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