Complete List Of Plays By Norm Foster
I have become a huge fan of the plays of Norm Foster as regular readers of OntarioStage may have noticed. I am always eager to add to the number of Norm Foster plays that I have seen.
Norm Foster is often described as Canada’s Neil Simon. It’s not quite an apples to apples comparison in my opinion, but it gives a hint to non-Canadians as to his prominence and popularity. He is also, by a wide margin, Canada’s most prolific playwright.
One day, in an idle moment, I turned to the Internet to see just how many plays this master had produced and was amazed to discover that no source seemed to have a complete list. Not Wikipedia. Not the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. Not even Foster’s own site.
So I began to cobble together my own list, drawing on multiple sources, but I encountered the usual stumbling blocks. Some places listed year of composition, others the year in which a play was first produced, others the year it was published in book form, and there were contradictions between and among various sources. I was stymied.
Now, thanks to the generous help of Emily Oriold, Artistic Director of the Foster Festival, and Meaghan Denomme, the Literary Manager at Norm Foster’s agency I am pleased to publish what I believe is an accurate list, by year of first production, of all the plays written by Norm Foster.
Spoiler Alert: There are 82 of them. I hope to add to this list as more works flow from his seemingly infinite imagination.
Links are to reviews on this site.
To order scripts to Norm Foster’s plays CLICK HERE. (Note: scripts are not avaiable for all the plays listed here.)
A Chronological List of Plays By Norm Foster
1983 – Sinners
1984 – The Melville Boys
1986 – Windfall
1987 – My Darling Judith
1988 – Bravado
1989 – Opening Night
1990 – The Affections of May
1991 – The Motor Trade
1992 – Wrong for Each Other
1994 – The Long Weekend
1994 – The Sitter
1996 – Office Hours
1996 – Sadie Flynn Comes to Big Oak
1997 – Here on the Flight Path
1997 – Jupiter in July
1998 – A Foggy Day
1998 – Drinking Alone
1998 – Ethan Claymore’s Christmas
1998 – The Foursome
1998 – The Christmas Tree
1999 – Louis and Dave
2000 – Maggie’s Getting Married
2000 – Office Hours – six one acts
2000 – Small Time
2001 – Jasper Station w/ Steve Thomas, music
2001 – Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun
2002 – The Love List
2002 – Self-Help
2002 – Race Day w/ Steve Thomas, music
2003 – Storm Warning
2004 – Outlaw
2005 – Looking
2005 – Sitting Pretty, w/ Steve Thomas, music
2006 – Jenny’s House of Joy
2006 – Mending Fences
2006 – Bedtime Stories
2006 – Dear Santa
2007 – One Moment (with Steve Thomas, music)
2008 – Old Love
2008 – One-Actmanship (My Narrator & The Death of Me)
2008 – Bob’s Your Elf
2009 – Skin Flick
2009 – The Last Resort (with Leslie Arden, music)
2009 – Under the Bright Sun
2010 – Sitting Pretty (with Steve Thomas, music)
2011 – Ned Durango (with Leslie Arden) *also exists as a standalone play without music*
2012 – Mrs. Parliament’s Night Out
2012 – Hilda’s Yard
2012 – On a First Name Basis
2013 – The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby
2013 – A Snow White Christmas
2014 – The Gentleman Clothier
2015 – The Ladies Foursome
2016 – Halfway There
2016 – For Life (with Michael Doherty, music)
2017 – Lunenberg
2017 – Screwball Comedy
2018 – Come Down From Up River
2018 – Renovations for Six
2018 – Jonas and Barry in the Home
2019 – The Writer
2019 – Beside Myself, w/ Steve Thomas, music
2019 – Aunt Agnes for Christmas *renamed Christmas with Auntie Pearl*
2021 – Widow Wonderland
2021 – My Hero
2022 – 1812
2022 – A Pack of Thieves
2022 – Doris and Ivy in the Home
2022 – They’re Found in Trees
2022 – A Clean Brush
2022 – Wildly Romantic
2023 – Danny and Delilah
2023 – My Hero
2023 – Whit’s End
2023 – Office Christmas Party
2024 – Those Movies
2024 – Lakefront
2024 – Ship to Shore
2025 – A Woman’s Love List
2025 – Bridge Narrows
2025 – I’m In Love With Your Sister
2025 – The Stakeout
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