A two-century-old courthouse in Saint John, New Brunswick, will be transformed into a professional theatre space thanks to a $19-million funding boost. The Atlantic Repertory Company will call the building home, offering a 200-270 capacity theatre and training programs.
A two-century-old courthouse, shown in a rendering, in Saint John , N.B., bought by the Saint John Theatre Company in 2020 will become home to the Atlantic Repertory Company . The company has raised $19-million in funding, including $12-million from Ottawa, to transform the building into a professional theatre space.Stephen Tobias has spent his career taking careful, incremental steps to make Saint John a home for increasingly professional theatre. The latest step might be closer to a leap.
bought a two-century-old courthouse on the city’s central square for $1 in 2020, Tobias’s grin was wide in late October as he announced that Ottawa would contribute $12-million to refurbish and expand the building as a theatre space. The federal money brings the total funding raised for the facility to $19-million, including other governmental support and private philanthropy. Up next will be a capital campaign to raise between $10-million and $12.5-million to get the refurbishment over the finish line – in time, Tobias hopes, for the 2027-28 season. It would become home to the Atlantic Repertory Company (ARC), the relatively new professional wing of what Tobias calls the longtime “high-end community theatre” output of the Saint John Theatre Company. And the building’s centrepiece would be a 200- to 270-capacity theatre in the building’s former second-floor courtroom, which would give the southern New Brunswick city greater flexibility in the shows it can host. Between this and the training programs he has planned for the new space, Tobias hopes the courthouse can bring more theatre to Saint John and more artistic opportunities for Saint Johners. “Even 10 years ago, it was not really possible to live in New Brunswick and be a working actor – not in the anglophone sector – and we were really the only province that had that issue,” Tobias said in an interview in the former courtroom in the fal
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