Today is Sunday, December 22, 2024 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Ralph Fiennes Andrew Lippa
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s haunting story of child slavery and community loss is unspeakably sad — and impeccably well staged.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:53PMThe Siminovitch Prize is the most significant theatre award in Canada, worth $100,000 in all.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMHer non-fiction book of the same name won the Grantham Prize for excellence in environmental journalism in 2010.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:30AMHe’s been lovingly nicknamed “The Brucester,” and he joins a long line of fibreglass statues made for Mirvish by Gerald McLoughlin.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:43PMThe stories of Kurdish female freedom fighters are the focus of a verbatim theatre production — using interview transcripts and found footage — in Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:30AMThe beloved musical set in Gander after the events of Sept. 11, 2001 has a triumphant concert staging in St. John’s.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AM“Sometimes magic can come out of destruction,” says artistic director Diana Bentley. “Extraordinary things can come out of moments like this.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:00PMHere’s a cheat sheet for some of the best deals on theatre tickets for the upcoming 2022-23 season.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMGadon leads in the Canadian premiere of Simon Stone’s ‘Yerma,’ a cerebral, high-stakes drama about fertility and personhood.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00PM“Mashup Pon Di Road,” created by performing artists Bahia Watson and Liza Paul, is an unapologetic and colourful bashment circus — and it’s staged on a flatbed truck.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMThe “Corner Gas” alum is back onstage in Coal Mine Theatre’s production of Lisa D’amour’s “Detroit,” a dark and funny commentary on the decline of the middle class.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:07AMReanne Spitzer and Sultanna Krispil’s abstract show recreates a TikTok feed in a poignant and dark commentary on the social media platform’s effects
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:31AMCombining smart songs, a knockout cast, and a surprisingly poignant book, Nam Nguyen’s highly meta-theatrical soup show is an absolute treasure.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:09AMLaura Piccinin is a witty standup comic with a long history of coming out to people.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:04PMSteph Haller and Paddy MacDonald are real-life exes with serious improv chops.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:10PMWhile not perfect by any means, Steven Elliott Jackson’s sweet fairy tale enforces for kids at a young age that not every prince needs a princess.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:28AMDaresay Productions’ upcoming play, “Deputy Prime Minister Collimore,” makes no reference to real politicians or situations, says the play’s producer.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:31PMThe festival takes place across Toronto and features programming for children aged 0-6, many of them seeing the curtain open for the first time.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:32PMDirector Jani Lauzon and actor Craig Lauzon both feel a sentimental connection to Loring’s Governor General’s Award-winning text
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:01PMJoey Arrigo’s approach to the Evil Queen was a collaborative one with TranscenDance artistic director Julia Cratchley.
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