Monday, May 30, 2016
For the first time in recent memory, all five nominees for best production in the general theatre division were for Canadian works.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:19AMFriday, May 27, 2016
Critics from The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, the National Post, Now Magazine and Torontoist participated in this year’s selection of winners
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:00PMThe Stratford Festival is seeing a major influx of young actors bringing new ideas to Shakespearean roles
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
Montreal company’s tale set in Golden Age of Hollywood is a lifeless, eye-rolling mess
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:00PMMonday, May 16, 2016
New spin on classic tale revels in the museum aspect of Lewis Carroll’s story
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:45PMSunday, May 8, 2016
Toronto’s UJA chapter is the most recent group to disassociate itself from the playwright over his criticisms of Israel
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00PMFriday, May 6, 2016
Hinton directs Alice in Wonderland at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake this summer
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:11PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
The playwright has two brand new one-act plays premiering in Toronto – Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom – then his tiny but influential storefront theatre and art gallery will …
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:59PMMonday, April 25, 2016
Mary Vingoe’s play, arriving in Toronto via Nightwood Theatre, is full of talk about refugees and who’s deserving of acceptance
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:54PMThursday, April 21, 2016
Toronto-based theatre company made several exciting revelations at its annual meeting on Thursday
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00PMThursday, April 14, 2016
Lead curator of event plans to take spirit of cross-disciplinary collaboration to next level
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:30PMMonday, April 4, 2016
Company will bring in shows it has invested in from around the country and will send one production on tour in Newfoundland
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:30PMFriday, April 1, 2016
The English actor is currently in Toronto playing the Irish playwright in David Hare’s The Judas Kiss
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:36AMThursday, March 24, 2016
The writer reflects on his 2013 Pulitzer-winning play, which in some ways rings true about the Muslim experience today
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:20PMIntended to be equal to the English and French companies, new department will mark the 50th anniversary of the centre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 09:30AMSaturday, March 19, 2016
They didn’t hit the internal goal of half a million in attendance, but 102,000 tickets were sold to patrons who had never been to the festival before
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:00AMFriday, March 11, 2016
English translation of François Archambault’s play is funny and moving, too
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:26PMThursday, March 10, 2016
Trey Anthony will reprise the role of Caribbean Canadian hairdresser Novelette in a new co-production that will also run at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:01AMFriday, March 4, 2016
Director Frank Cox-O’Connell believes French philosopher Albert Camus’s drama deserves to be better known in the English-speaking theatre world
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:24PMTuesday, March 1, 2016
Hannah Moscovitch awarded a Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize and $150,000 (U.S.) for work that focuses on ways the ‘past ruptures the present’
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00AMFriday, February 26, 2016
The Watershed, Annabel Soutar’s acclaimed documentary play about the politics of science during the Harper years, will kick off a national tour at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre in September
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:45PMThursday, February 25, 2016
Relaxed performances adjust sound and lighting cues to be less startling, and allow the use of phones or other ‘fidget devices’
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:05PMFriday, February 19, 2016
Nina Lee Aquino looks for artists that reflect Toronto’s diverse population
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:48AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Come From Away, The Bodyguard, Mrs Henderson Presents, Strictly Ballroom: The Musical and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical are featured prominently in the 2016-17 lineup
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:30AMCanadian musical to play in Washington and Toronto on its way to New York
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:30AMFriday, February 5, 2016
There are two unusual musical theatre options on the menu in Toronto at the moment
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:51PMTheatre suggests ‘congested’ summer, including Pan Am Games, kept Torontonians away
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:00PMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Stephen Ouimette – one of Canada’s most in-demand stage actors – has been named the next director of the Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
Ashlie Corcoran has been staying busy, working on shows at three different theatres all while running her own playhouse
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:34PMThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will have its Canadian premiere at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton and the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg next season
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:36PMFriday, January 29, 2016
Theatre director flails and bails after criticism over season announcement in which every director, playwright, choreographer or translator was white
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:33PM 
