All stories by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter on BroadwayStars

Monday, November 28, 2016

Come From Away ticket sales set record by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Mirvish Productions sells more than $1.7 million worth of tickets in a week.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:48PM
Monday, November 14, 2016

Theatre Centre ends its capital campaign by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Main performance space in former Carnegie Library to be named after artistic director Franco Boni.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:37PM
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Cast announced for Bat Out of Hell — The Musical by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Musical featuring songs from album Bat Out of Hell to open in London June 20, 2017.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:44PM

Crow's Theatre to open Streetcar Crowsnest in January by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Name and season announced for theatre's new permanent home in Leslieville.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:55PM
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

AJ Bridel joins Ross Petty's Sleeping Beauty by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Actress who won raves for her role in Kinky Boots to play title role in annual holiday panto.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:50PM
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Bell gets into live theatre with Bat out of Hell by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Musical will celebrate 40th anniversary of Meat Loaf album in partnership with legendary producer Michael Cohl.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:18PM
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Ed Mirvish Theatre to dim lights for Nederlander by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Broadway producer Jimmy Nederlander, who died Monday, ‘among the greats,’ says David Mirvish.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00PM
Monday, July 25, 2016

Theatre Passe Muraille announces 2016-17 season by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Alien Creature remount, John & Waleed: From Sudan to Southern Ontario, Stupidhead! and Sound of the Beast.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:02PM
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Cast announced for Toronto and Broadway runs of Come From Away by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Petrina Bromley to star in Canadian musical about Gander, Newfoundland's response to Sept. 11.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:00PM
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Matilda the Musical extended through Nov. 27 by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

New tickets for Mirvish presentation go on sale July 16.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:39PM
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Learning to Riverdance a lesson in humility by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

15 minutes of pro instruction is exhausting — imagine a two-hour performance.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AM
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Disgraced breaks box office record at Panasonic by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Pulitzer Prize-winning play, on until April 24, best attended since Mirvish theatre opened in 2005.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:17PM
Monday, April 18, 2016

Tomson Highway's The (Post) Mistress part of Théâtre français de Toronto season by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Company's 2016/17 season also includes Canadian Stage co-production Five Faces for Evelyn Frost.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:30PM
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Stratford Festival reports third surplus in a row by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Theatre festival was $559,000 in the black after 2015 season.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:55AM
Monday, February 8, 2016

Toronto's Kinky Boots gets a new Lola by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Alan Mingo Jr. is Broadway bound to be replaced here by Kyle Taylor Parker.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:38PM
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Stephen Ouimette to lead Stratford Festival training program by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Birmingham Conservatory schools young actors in theatre classics.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:27PM
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Kinky Boots gets another Toronto extension by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein musical about a shoe factory that makes boots for drag queens now extended until May 15.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:18PM
Monday, November 9, 2015

Grey Gardens the musical coming to Toronto Feb. 19 by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Lisa Horner and Nicola Lipman to star as Little Edie and Big Edie in musical based on 1975 documentary

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:55PM
Thursday, November 5, 2015

National Ballet star Guillaume Côté back onstage by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Dancer injured last December to open Alexei Ratmansky's Romeo and Juliet on Nov. 25.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00PM
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Stratford Festival Hamlet, three other plays join HD film series by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew and The Adventures of Pericles to be filmed this month, Love's Labour's Lost in October.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:32PM
Monday, August 31, 2015

Stratford Festival pays tribute to Colm Feore by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Canadian-American actor, who has played more title roles at Stratford than anyone else, to be honoured at Sept. 28 gala.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:05PM
Friday, August 21, 2015

A Next Step for Ross Petty pantos by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Peter Pan, featuring Petty's last onstage role, will include three cast members from Family Channel's The Next Step.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM
Monday, July 13, 2015

Stratford Festival keeps Antoni Cimolino four more years by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Cimolino's term as artistic director extended to 2022 after two seasons of surpluses and increased attendance.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:15PM
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

New Alice in Wonderland part of Shaw 2016 season by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Festival also commissions adaptation of Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:41PM
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Acclaimed Beckett Trilogy coming to Canadian Stage by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Lisa Dwan to appear in Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby Oct. 13 to Nov. 1 at Berkeley Street Theatre.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:46PM
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Theatrical version of Shakespeare in Love at Stratford Festival in 2016 by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

New season also includes adaptation of Shakespeare's history plays, A Chorus Line, A Little Night Music, As You Like It and Macbeth.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Factory Theatre strips down classics for Naked Season by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Age of Arousal, Banana Boys, Bombay Black, Salt-Water Moon, A Line in the Sand and The Crackwalker reimagined for 2015-16 season.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:06PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Guitarists sought for group rendition of Falling Slowly by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

600 or more musicians to play Oscar-winning song at Ed Mirvish Theatre, home of Toronto production of Once, on April 23.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Le Petit Prince and A Winter's Tale highlights of National Ballet season by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

New full-length ballet from principal dancer Guillaume Côté and Christopher Wheeldon's adaptation of a Shakespeare play part of 2015-16 bill

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:29PM
Friday, September 12, 2014

National Ballet of Canada part of World Ballet Day by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Live video of dancers to be streamed from companies in Melbourne, Moscow, London, Toronto and San Francisco in Oct. 1 event.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:44PM
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Stratford Festival's King Lear extended again by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Festival calls production one of its "top-selling Shakespeare productions of all time"

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM

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