From Oct. 25-30, Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance will play the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, Canada. As previously announced, Vengeance — which ended its Broadway run May 1 — will also play Ottawa's National Arts Centre's Opera Stage (Nov. 8-13, 2005), the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans (Feb. 7-12, 2006) and Chicago's LaSalle Bank Theatre (March 14-26, 2006). Additional venues are expected. Devised and written by Barry Humphries with additional material by Andrew Ross, the Broadway mounting of Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance featured Wayne Barker as the Master of the Dame's Musick; the Gorgeous Ednaettes, Teri DiGianfelice and Michelle Pampena; and the Equally Gorgeous TestEdnarones, Randy Aaron and Gerrard Carter.

Dubbed Australia's First Lady, Dame Edna is the invention of Barry Humphries, a successful character actor in Europe and Australia as well as an esteemed landscape painter. Some of Humphries' theatrical credits include roles in Waiting for Godot, Oliver! and Maggie May, but his most successful outings have been as Dame Edna, a character he created in 1956. Humphries was given the Order of Australia in 1982 and was endowed with an Honorary Doctorate of Griffith University in Australia in 1994. The Dame found success on Broadway during the 2000 season with her Tony Award-winning show, Dame Edna: The Royal Tour.

The Royal Alexandra Theatre is located at 260 King Street West in Toronto. Ticket prices and on-sale date will be announced shortly. For more information visit www.mirvish.com.