Stratford 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 11:11AMAfter nine years, he will program a final season before departing from his position in June of 2018
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:00AMElliott discusses team-ups with Simon Stephens, remounting Angels in America on Broadway and her new company
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:32PMAnita Majumbar’s Fish Eyes Trilogy fails to recapture its original magic at first but manages a strong finish, while Lukumi features a typically excellent d’bi.young anitafrika performan…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:52PMTheatre companies both large and small took advantage of the spotlight and rare extra resources to bring Canadian works to the biggest performing-arts marketplaces in the world
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:30PMThe National Theatre School and stagehand union IATSE are teaming up to back the 71-year-old high-school festival amid lost sponsorship from failing retailer Sears
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AMIt’s pretty hard to put a Royal Family on stage that is less diverse than the actual one – but Studio 180 and Mirvish plan to do just that in February
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:16PMThe Aliens and The Humans each take place on a single realistic set, feature characters who speak as actual people do – and allow action to unfold in its own time
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:17PMJonah McIntosh was a rising theatre star when he suddenly, inexplicably took his own life in July. J. Kelly Nestruck writes about the mark the young actor leaves, both on and off the stage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:59PMAs the country's theatre companies dabble in everything from personal tragedy to rock 'n' roll, a spell of hits is ahead
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:14PMMolière’s classic con-man comedy may seem of the moment – and indeed, there are plenty of parallels – but the truth is, we’re always living in the age of Tartuffe
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:12PMThe production plays with fiery subject matter, but carefully adapts a 1859 sensation and is worth staying until the end to experience
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:02PMAlthough more women direct and write plays in Canada, it’s clear who’s to blame for the continuing gender imbalance on the stage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:32PMTwelve actors – a mix of musical theatre veterans and up-and-comers – will star in this second production of the Dora- and Drama Desk-winning show in 2018
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01AMCanadian playwright’s production will transfer to Trafalgar Studios 2 in London’s commercial theatre district in August
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:11PMThe Toronto company has invested a lot in its border-crossing project for Canada 150. The rewards could be tremendous
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:14PMThe Canadian Broadway hit picks up another major award, while Soulpepper’s Father Comes Home From the Wars wins top prize in the play category
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:00PMWith Toronto enjoying one of its strongest theatre seasons yet, the relative lack of buzz surrounding the awards is hard to ignore
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SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:09PMThe Nlaka’pamux actor and playwright will begin planning his first season to launch the theatre company in Ottawa in the fall of 2019
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:00AMThree lessons we can learn from Come From Away’s Tony performance
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:26PMCanadian-penned Come From Away, about the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, in Gander, Nfld., was nominated for seven awards
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 09:27PMNods include outstanding production of a musical and three for outstanding performance
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:15AMAlmost three decades after her festival debut in Guys and Dolls, the go-to musical director is set to bring it to the modern stage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:23PMAlmost three decades after her festival debut in Guys and Dolls, the go-to musical director is set to bring it to the modern stage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:23PMPlay written by Torontonians, now on the road to the Tonys, is the first ever to receive TTCAs’ best new Canadian musical and best overall production awards
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01AMRick Salutin’s 1837 returns to the festival it once sought to revolutionize, but its themes mean something different a generation later
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:03PMA handful of long-in-development musicals, inspired by some of the country’s great 19th-century works, come at an odd time given current political climate
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:53PMPopular English actor reveals his plans for next year at members event
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:41PMNiagara Catholic District School Board elementary schools cancelled a touring play because of fears it was beyond younger students’ comprehension
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:22PMBoys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures, aimed at students from Grade 1 to 4, is centred on an eight-year-old named Simon/e who feels ‘boxed in by the restraints of gender’
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