Wednesday, May 4, 2022
The works in the 2022-23 season “grapple in different ways with discussions about race, climate and political divisiveness that are dominating global conversations right now.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:28PMHope Muir’s first full season as artistic director also includes works by Alonzo King and David Dawson, and the return of “The Nutcracker,” “Cinderella,” “Frame by Frame” and …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMWednesday, January 5, 2022
Changes to the season mean Toronto will also get a hit version of the musical “Singin’ in the Rain” in September.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:23PMTuesday, January 4, 2022
“Jake’s superb show deserves the best opportunity to be seen,” says David Mirvish in postponing the solo show to April and May.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:23PMTuesday, November 23, 2021
A highlight of the season, the festival’s 70th, will be the grand reopening of the Tom Patterson Theatre with ‘Richard III,’ which was postponed in 2020 due to the pandemic.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMMonday, November 22, 2021
“Harry Potter” mania appears to be with us once again, what with the 20th anniversary of the first film, the announcement of an HBO Max reunion special and tickets for Toronto’s “Cur…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMFriday, July 30, 2021
Izzard, who is in Toronto shooting a TV series, will perform “Eddie Izzard The Remix: 1988-2018’ and ‘Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations’ for Mirvish Productions.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:46PMMonday, June 28, 2021
The two-part play is being restaged in one part and will reopen first on Broadway in November.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:18PMTuesday, June 1, 2021
After cancelling a planned November run due to the second wave of COVID-19, Mirvish plans to open a limited, physically distanced staging Aug. 4 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMMonday, August 24, 2020
It opened Aug. 28, 1920 as the Pantages vaudeville theatre, became the Imperial during its years as a movie theatre and went back to the Pantages with ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ in 1989.…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:42PMMonday, July 20, 2020
‘Ghosts of the Royal Alex’ takes readers and listeners inside Canada’s ‘most famous haunted theatre’ with biweekly episodes.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:45PMMonday, June 29, 2020
Canadian Opera Company wins four for ‘Rusalka’; ‘Piaf/Dietrich’ is named Best Musical; and ‘Caroline, or Change’ takes the performance awards in the musical theatre category.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00PMMonday, June 8, 2020
Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts announces 243 nominations, with winners to be announced June 29.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:43AMFriday, May 29, 2020
Niagara-on-the-Lake theatre festival takes an incremental approach to cancellations, whereas the Stratford Festival has already suspended the entire season.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:48PMWednesday, May 20, 2020
Nominees and further details about the Toronto theatre, opera and dance awards will be announced June.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:00PMThursday, May 7, 2020
The goal is to have the Lin-Manuel Miranda music back onstage in Toronto within 18 months.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:40PMThursday, April 30, 2020
Monday, April 27, 2020
“For the health and safety of all the artists, crew and staff working in our theatres, and for that of our audience, I think it is best to begin our new season … in January of the new ye…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:09AMThursday, April 16, 2020
Coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible to carry out the months of detailed preparations for the Canadian production’s debut in October.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:31AMSunday, April 12, 2020
The musical theatre veteran died of cancer on April 8 in Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:36PMTuesday, April 7, 2020
Cancellations mean the epic play ‘Mahabharata’ will not be seen in 2020,
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:49PMFestival looks for ways to support the theatre artists whose Fringe shows won’t go on, so ‘stay tuned,’ it says.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:13PMFriday, April 3, 2020
All remaining performances of ‘Hamilton’ are cancelled, with hopes the musical can return to Toronto at a later date.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:40PMThursday, April 2, 2020
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the new ‘Swan Lake’ has been delayed to June 2021. A new ballet based on Margaret Atwood’s ‘MaddAddam’ books has also been postponed.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:46PMFriday, March 27, 2020
Performances of ‘Aida’ and ‘The Flying Dutchman’ are cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:53PMThursday, March 26, 2020
The awards for Toronto theatre, dance and opera will be rescheduled for an undetermined future date.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:43PMThe annual arts festival will be pushed back to June 2021.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:52PMTuesday, March 24, 2020
‘Places, Please,’ co-hosted by Michael Rubinoff, will raise donations to emergency aid organization the AFC.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:33PMNorth American tour of the Vietnam War musical that was to play here in May is cancelled due to the coronavirus.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:52AMMonday, March 23, 2020
Theatre company says it will reschedule ‘Room’ and ‘Indecent’ when it’s safe to do so.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:39AM 
