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2024 – 2025

Month	Details
October	BackstagePASS>2024-25 Season \| Spelling Bee Musical \| Behind the Scenes \| Music Season \| Coming Up in Fine Arts
August	BackstagePASS>2024-25 Season \| Added Show \| Fringe Round Up \| Faculty Announcement

2023 – 2024

Month	Details
March	BackstagePASS>2024-25 Season Announcement \| Hot L Baltimore \| Orion Puppet Lectures and more!
February	BackstagePASS> 100 Years of Broadway \| Music Events \| Fine Arts News
November	BackstagePASS> Importance of Being Earnest \| Music Events \| Dracula
September	BackstagePASS> Staging Equality \| Season \| Music Events

2022 – 2023

Month	Details
March	BackstagePASS> Summer \| Stories, News & Events
February	BackstagePASS> Vinegar Tom \| Stories, News & Events
November	BackstagePASS> Spring Awakening \| Stories, News & Events

2021 – 2022

Month	Details
May	BackstagePASS> Summer Update\| Stories, News & Events
March	BackstagePASS> March Update\| Stories, News & Events
March	BackstagePASS> Shakespeare’s Women\| Stories, News & Events
February	BackstagePASS> The Waste Land \| Stories, News & Events
November	BackstagePASS> Dead Man’s Cell Phone \| Stories, News & Events
August	BackstagePASS> 2021-22 Season \| Phoenix at the Fringe \| Summer Theatre & Beyond

2020 – 2021

Month	Details
March	BackstagePASS > Back on stage! \| Problem Child Livestream \| Lectures, Events & Alumni Updates
October	BackstagePASS > Our new “Classrooms” \| Season Update \| Department News \| Spooky Halloween events!
May	BackstagePASS> Thank you! \| New Season \| Online Art Connections

2019 – 2020

Month	Details

November	BackstagePASS> Othello: A Portrait of Ira Aldridge + Lecture, Video, Photos & Reviews
October	BackstagePASS> Spotlight on Storytelling, Phoenix Phacts & More
August	BackstagePASS> Annual Fringe Round Up

2018 – 2019

Month	Details
March	BackstagePASS> 7 Stories – being HELD OVER
March	BackstagePASS> 7 Stories
February	BackstagePASS> Trojan Women
November	BackstagePASS> Drowsy Chaperone – being HELD OVER
November	BackstagePASS> Drowsy Chaperone
October	BackstagePASS> Spotlight on Alumni bursts into light with Mamahood
August	BackstagePASS> Annual Fringe Round Up

2017 – 2018

Month	Details
March	BackstagePASS> The Comedy of Errors gets a pop musical reboot
November	Update: The Madwoman of Chaillot is “a meta-theatrical spectacle!”
November	BackstagePASS> The Madwoman of Chaillot
October	BackstagePASS> Spotlight on Alumni goes WEST!
August	BackstagePASS> Annual Fringe Round Up

2016 – 2017

Month	Details
March	BackstaePass>Update: The Phoenix knows how to poke fun!
March	BackstagePASS>The Inspector is coming
February	BackstagePASS>Gut Girls opens!
November	BackstagePASS>Update: Les Liaisons Dangereuses is “a bona fide coup!”
October	BackstagePASS>Alumni Festival Week 3 with Shannan Calcutt
October	BackstagePASS>Alumni Festival Week Two with TJ Dawe
October	BackstagePASS>Alumni Festival begins with Charles Ross
August	BackstagePASS> 50 years of Phoenixers in the community
June	BackstagePASS> 2016/17 Season: Celebrating our 50th Anniversary

2015 – 2016

Month	Details
March	BackstagePASS> Summer & Smoke
February	BackstagePASS>Wild Honey
November	BackstagePASS>Update: Threepenny Opera 4/5 star review, Plus lecture podcast, photos and more
November	BackstagePASS>The Threepenny Opera
October	BackstagePASS>LOONwith the Wonderheads
August	BackstagePASS>Phoenix Fringe Issue
May	BackstagePASS>Announcing our 2015/16 Season

2014 – 2015

Month	Details
March	BackstagePASS>Update: “Bold and ambitious” and 4.5 out of 5 stars!
March	BackstagePASS>Amadeus
February	BackstagePASS>Update: “One word: BRILLIANT” – Lion in the Streets Reviews, Photos & Lecture
February	BackstagePASS>Lion in the Streets
November	BackstagePASS>Update: “The best play…out of the Phoenix in a decade” – Midsummer Reviews, Photos & Lecture
November	BackstagePASS>A Midsummer Night’s Dream
October	BackstagePASS>Update: Show Held Over! Lecture Podcast, Video, Reviews and more
October	BackstagePASS>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Summer	BackstagePASS>Phoenix Fringers and 2014/15 Season

2013 – 2014

Month	Details
March	BackstagePASS>Unity Update: Lecture, Reviews, Photos & More
March	BackstagePASS>Unity (1918)
February	BackstagePASS> Picnic Update: Lecture, Reviews, Photos & More
February	BackstagePASS > Picnic
November	BackstagePASS > The Skin of Our Teeth Update
November	BackstagePASS > The Skin of Our Teeth
October	BackstagePASS >Update: Kitt & Jane Lecture & Reviews
October	BackstagePASS > Kitt & Jane, Spotlight on Alumni
September	BackstagePASS > Phoenix Fringers
May	BackstagePASS> Announcing 2013/14 Season / Congress 2013

2012 – 2013

Month	Details
March	BackstagePASS> Update: Charlie Brown Lecture, Reviews & Photos
March	BackstagePASS> You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
February	BackstagePASS> Update: RTBP Lecture, reviews & photos.
February	BackstagePASS > Reasons to Be Pretty
November	BackstagePASS>Update: Setzuan lectures & review \| Special show discounts
November	BackstagePASS> Good Person of Setzuan
October	BackstagePASS> Update: Lecture, Reviews & Events for Peter N’ Chris
October	BackstagePASS> Peter N’ Chris & The Mystery of the Hungry Heart Motel
Summer	BackstagePASS > 2012-13 Season, UVic’s 50th, Phoenix Fringers

2011 – 2012

Month	Details
March	BackstagePASS > The Marowitz Hamlet reviews update
March	BackstagePASS > The Marowitz Hamlet
February	BackstagePASS > Eurydice reviews update
February	BackstagePASS > Eurydice
November	BackstagePASS > Rookery reviews update
November	BackstagePASS > Rookery Nook
October	BackstagePASS > Love Kills update
September	BackstagePASS: Spotlight on Alumni – Love Kills
August	BackstagePASS: New Season and Alumni Fringers

2010 – 2011

Month	Details
March	BackstagePASS: World Premiere of Inside
February	BackstagePASS: Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
November	BackstagePASS >update: Yerma photos, reviews and lecture online!
November	BackstagePASS: Yerma
October	BackstagePASS: Spotlight on Alumni
September	BackstagePASS >update: Department celebrates life of alumna
August	BackstagePASS: Phoenix Alumni are Fringing
May	BackstagePASS: New Season

2009 – 2010

Date	Details
March	BackstagePASS > Update
March	BackstagePASS: Wreckage
February	BackstagePASS: Problem Child
November	BackstagePASS: Romeo & Juliet
October	BackstagePASS: The Josephine Knot
Summer	BackstagePASS: Season

2008 – 2009

Date	Details
Summer	Phoenix Theatre @ UVic: eNews
October	Phoenix Theatre @ UVic: eNews
November	Phoenix Theatre @ UVic: eNews
February	Phoenix Theatre @ UVic: eNews
March	Phoenix Theatre @ UVic: eNews

2007 – 2008

Date	Details
October	Phoenix Theatre @ UVic: eNews
November	Phoenix Theatre @ UVic: eNews
February	Phoenix Theatre @ UVic: eNews