Thanks to a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Festival Players invested in a custom online ticket system in 2010, and throughout the year CountyTix is available to other organizations in the area. You can buy tickets online from the comfort of your home, safely and securely with the click of a button. (Or you can go and see Rick at the Box Office in Books & Company of course!) Here’s a taste of what’s on sale right now.

If you’d like to sell your events, safely and securely via CountyTix, be sure to contact Box Office Systems Manager Rick Zimmerman at rick@countytix.ca.

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Festival Players 2011 Flex Passes -Get your Flex Pass today for only $76 +HST (15% off) until December 20, 2010 ONLY! After that the prices goes up, so get’em while they’re hot (and cheap)!
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Quinte Symphony Tickets & Subscriptions -

CountyTix is now selling single tickets and subscriptions to the Quinte Symphony’s 2010-2011 Concert Season. Click here to view the Quinte Symphony 2010-2011 Brochure.

Enjoy 4 MasterWorks concerts for one comprehensive price!
  Adult Subscription   – $96
  Youth Subscription  - $20   (6-24 years)

2010-2011 Single Tickets:
MasterWorks Series – Each concert
  Adult – $30
  Youth  - $5   (6-24 years)

Quinte Symphony Pops – “Take it to the Limit - The Music of the Eagles”
  Adults – $45
  Youth  - $5   (6-24 years)
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Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory Fundraiser Dinner & Silent Auction -

Date: Saturday, October 23, 2010
Time: 6:00pm-10:00pm
Venue: The Waring House, Picton

We will be joined by special guest presenter Professor David Bird of McGill University, author of The Bird Almanac. The title of his talk is ”Watching Birds Naked” and by all accounts will be highly entertaining. Tickets are $65.00 each.
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Picton Noir -

Date: Sunday, October 31, 2010
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: Upstairs at Books and Company (289 Main Street, Picton)

Presented by The P.E.C. Authors Festival & IFOA Ontario. 

READING:
Michael Koryta (USA) So Cold the River
Michael Robotham (Australia) Bleed For Me
Emily St. John Mandel (Canada/USA) The Singer’s Gun

ROUND TABLE:
Giles Blunt (Canada) is the author of the John Cardinal series Forty Words for Sorrow, A Delicate Storm, Blackfly Season, By the Time You Read This, and the national bestseller Breaking Lorca. Blunt’s Crime Machine is the fifth installment in the John Cardinal mystery series.

Louise Welsh (Scotland) bestselling author of The Cutting Room, Tamburlaine Must Die and The Bullet Trick, presents her latest work, Naming the Bones.

Peter Robinson (Canada/UK) has received numerous awards for his Inspector Banks novels; he is also a member of the exclusive Detection Club founded in 1928 by a group of mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and G.K. Chesterton. Robinson presents Bad Boy, the latest installment in the Inspector Banks series.

Tickets are $15.00 each.
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Q.E.M.A. Victorian Gala -

Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: The Restaurant on the Knoll (Isaiah Tubbs Resort)

Quinte Educational Museum and Archives presents the 4th Annual Victorian Gala.

Cash bar at 6:00pm, buffet dinner at 7:00pm. Enjoy a silent and live auction with Manson & Lori Slik and entertainment by David Simmons & Fraser Hardman. Door prizes, 50/50 draw and more! Tickets are $50.00 each. 
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“The Dresser” (County Theatre Group) -

Date: November 19, 20, 26 & 27, 2010
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Mount Tabor Playhouse, Milford 

The Dresser is presented by The County Theatre Group. Written by Ronald Harwood and directed by John Burns. Tickets are $15.00 each.

Synopsis: Based on the author’s own experiences as dresser to Sir Donald Wolfit, this bracing, heartbreaking drama is an elegy to a by-gone era. Backstage at a theatre in the English provinces during WWII, Sir, the last of the great breed of English actor/managers, is in a bad way tonight, as his dresser Norman tries valiantly to prepare him to go on stage as King Lear. Unsure of his lines as well as who and where he is supposed to be, Sir is adamantly determined to roar his last. With Herculean effort on the part of Norman, Sir finally makes it on stage and through the performance no thanks to an air raid courtesy of the Luftwaffe. Back in his dressing room after the performance, the worn out old trouper dies, leaving alone his company and the loyal dresser after one final bow.
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“Quartet” (Prince Edward Community Theatre) -

Date: December 3, 4, 10, & 11, 2010
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Picton Community Centre (Picton Fairgrounds)

Quartet is presented by Prince Edward Community Theatre. Written by Ronald Harwood and directed by Lynn Fennell. Tickets are $12.50 each. NOTE: Save $2.50 on your tickets by purchasing both shows for $25.00.

Synopsis: Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred reside in a home for retired opera singers in Kent, England. Each year, on the tenth of October, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva and refuses to sing. But the show must go on in this funny and poignant play by the author of Another Time, The Dresser and Interperters that premiered at the Albery Theatre, London.
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To get your Flex Pass or tickets to any of the above events, please contact Rick at the Box Office at 613-471-1991 or 1-866-584-1991 or buy online via www.countytix.ca