Richmond's Gateway Theatre tackles Chinese identity, dementia, and 76 trombones in an ambitious, just-announced 2016-17 season.

The theatre kicks things off October 13 with King of the Yees, the Canadian premiere of Lauren Yee's adventure into San Francisco's Chinatown.

In November, the stage presents Pi Theatre's world premiere of Peter Dickinson's Long Division, a multimedia tale of mathematics and human connection.

December finds Barbara Tomasic helming The Music Man, the classic, Tony Award-winning hit about con man Harold Hill and his big brass band.

In February 2017, Gateway stages a remount of Ruby Slippers Theatre's You Will Remember Me, about an aging intellectual who's hit with dementia and shuttled between caregivers.

That's followed in March by the world premiere of The Pipeline Project, an ITSAZOO and Savage Society production in association with the Gateway and Neworld Theatre. It's a comedic look at such hot-button issues as "peak oil", First Nations land claims, and climate change. 

The season closes in April with the Western Canadian premiere of Annabel Soutar's The Watershed, a coproduction with Productions Porte Parole and Crow’s Theatre that follows her documentary-style road trip across Canada, interviewing environmentalists, business people, scientists, and activists.

Season subscriptions are available here. Single tickets go on sale this fall.