The MTC’s artistic director, who brought Transit of Venus and Keanu Reeves’s Hamlet to Winnipeg, will step down in May, 2019
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 07:00AMOjibwa playwright Drew Hayden Taylor’s latest is inspired by a real dispute between Ontario cottage owners and local Indigenous people trying to revive an old tradition
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:02PMMusical is set to have its first international production in 2019, as New York producer partner’s with city’s David Mirvish
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:34PMHit musical will come to Toronto’s Royal Alexandra Theatre in March of next year
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:47AMKim Coates, the Saskatoon-born actor, takes on the challenging lead role after a 25-year absence from the stage – and quickly shows he hasn’t lost his live-performing chops.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:12PMBoard of directors votes to keep base grant of theatre company currently being sued by four past employees alleging sexual harassment
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 07:19PMSeason of 17 shows includes a number of projects on which the director has personally played matchmaker
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 07:00AMThe Canadian Stage production in Toronto is as exciting and unsettling as the original in New York, which won a Tony Award for best play.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:04PMThe production has grossed more than US$60-million on Broadway to date – and has been turning a profit since it earned back its original US$12-million investment in October
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00AMToronto theatre company immediately placed under ‘concerned status’ after civil lawsuits against its former artistic director were filed
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00AMAt first everything seems a new discovery – and then even joys become repetitive, and then maybe a new joy is there to be found in repetition, like the chorus of a song.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:12PMThe production at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto is a miniature masterpiece – and absolutely prescient about how the past would be ever-present in the future.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:43PMIt’s environmental agit-prop, for sure: The flora and fauna are the good guys; Kinder Morgan and the RCMP are the bad guys. It implores the audience to “fight” in its penultimate line.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 07:46PMGlobe and Mail hears more complaints about the theatre company’s workplace culture after lawsuits filed against former artistic director
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:12PMLetter to Soulpepper’s board of directors, signed by 281 people, urges acknowledgment of ‘harm these women, and others, have suffered’
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:17AMSoulpepper board’s executive committee also said in a statement that it would cancel the production of Amadeus while 30 artists signed their names acknowledging an unhealthy workplace cult…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 07:35PMEarlier Thursday, actors Ted Dykstra, Stuart Hughes, Michelle Monteith and Rick Roberts resigned in support of four women who made allegations against Schultz
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:33PMPlaintiffs describe years of harassment and assault while working for Soulpepper's co-founder Albert Schultz, who has been described as a 'serial sexual predator' in separate …
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:02PMTouching, challenging and hilarious, here are the top 10 productions of the year – plus honours for the finest performance
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AMAs politics and news continue to stir the conversation around inequality, Toronto's female-fronted Nightwood Theatre has been burning brighter than ever. But for a 38-year-old company u…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AMYou can’t quite tell where Heisenberg is going to go from scene to scene – and that’s part of the play’s appeal
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:18PMOn the whole it does not work as well as a fairy tale for a panto – not offering enough opportunities for group dance numbers and having too set a structure
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:58PMKeeping Hadestown away from Broadway, producers believe, maintains a level of anonymity beneficial to the production
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:25PMThe Old Trout Puppet Workshop adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem goes from exaggerated whimsy to galumphing tragedy.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:18PMSiminovitch Prize winner breaks new ground as a specialist in collaborations
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 07:00PMNew stage adaptation of the work, previously mounted by Peter Brook to immense success in the 1980s, is fuelled by a $375,000 grant and will feature a cast from the South Asian diaspora
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AMIn recent weeks, Marton, an iconic figure in Hungary’s theatre world, has been publicly accused of sexual harassment by ten women who worked with him
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:16PMTheatre festival cancelled its 2017 edition and planned to declare bankruptcy, but a group of artists and administrators have saved it from shutting down permanently
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 09:00AMRather than focus on conflict, the show featuring a Northern and Southern artist opts for reconciliation
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:35PMTen playwrights of different backgrounds and languages come together to produce a play about Gabriel Dumont that pleases, puzzles and provokes through wildly shifting forms
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:09PMStratford Festival says putting significant number of female actors in traditionally male role part of initiative to diversify casting approach
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:11AM
