Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Shorter after Ride the Cyclone started in off-Broadway previews, Richmond's mother, Janet Wright of Corner Gas fame, died
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Groundling Theatre Company to remount play in beautiful, intimate setting in Toronto
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 19, 2016
Brandon Victor Dixon, currently playing Aaron Burr in the musical about the American revolution and its aftermath, then spoke to Pence directly during the curtain call
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2016
The possibility of London Road being a complete and utter disaster is what motivated director Rufus Norris to tackle it, first on stage at the National Theatre in London, then on film
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:34PM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2016
Margaret Norrie McCain has requested the Theatre Centre be named after its artistic director, Franco Boni
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2016
Newfoundlanders who sheltered 6,600 stranded 9/11 travellers get a preview of Broadway-bound musical based on their kindnesses
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2016
Michael Therriault, Sara Topham and Tom McCamus will be all be joining the Shaw Festival
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2016
The company is set to establish a permanent location on the first floor of an $11-million condo complex in January
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:01PM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2016
With a variety of faces and plays, this season explores themes of Canadian identity in the lead-up to the country's 150th anniversary
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2016
Broadway-bound play set in Gander, Nfld., in days after 9/11, receives warm response at a special showing in the small Maritime town
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:24PM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2016
The artistic director of STO Union takes the country's richest prize for the stage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:30PM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2016
Anyone who believes that Toronto's publicly subsidized theatres should reflect the actual public, at a time when "visible minorities" constitute a majority of the city's population, will sur…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:48AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2016
Musicals, remounts, tours and American up-and-comers are all on the slate this fall
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:58PM[SHARE]This is the first time that the jury has chosen five rather than four on its shortlist.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01AM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
The Ontario repertory theatre company will not officially announce its casting for the 2017 season until next month " but information about who is starring in the big shows has already start…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2016
Director Heidi Malazdrewich and the ShowStages Collective are the first in Canada to take on the challenge of staging The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2016
In a $2.5-million effort, the Edwardian-era theatre is getting regilded mouldings, a revamped floor and brand-new seats
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:29PM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2016
For those of who bemoan the state of culture in the 21st century, Stratford Festival artistic director Antoni Cimolino always programs one play each season to remind us that bawdy, body-base…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2016
Shaw Festival's new artistic director Tim Carroll announces his first season, with two plays set in Canada on the bill
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:24AM[SHARE]Carroll discusses diversity, directors and what he views as the festival's mandate
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:00AM[SHARE]The Dora Award-winning up-and-coming actor will play the Canadian cancer activist and icon in Drayton Entertainment's upcoming world premiere
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2016
The most-hyped plays at this year's festival explore the worry that humanity may have messed up the world too much " and that it will come back to bite us in the babies
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Toronto-based theatre company will be bringing six productions, all penned by Canadians, to New York next summer
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01AM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2016
Dora Award-winning Weyni Mengesha is an in-demand director " here's how she became one
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:46PM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2016
Drabinsky is trying to stage a Broadway comeback, after a 2009 fraud and forgery conviction, with a musical adaptation of the novel Madame Sousatzka
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Our Beautiful Sons finds a powerful moment of humanity in a story about a military family
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:12PM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2016
Trio of millennial playwrights take top prizes to signal generational shift on Toronto stages
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2016
William Shakespeare, of course, has pride of place at the Festival Theatre " there, living legend Martha Henry will direct Twelfth Night and Scott Wentworth will helm Romeo and Juliet
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
The question of who wins is of more immediate concern to Canadians " after all, last year's Tony-winning play often ends up on next year's playbill at Canada's major regional theatres
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2016
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 11:19AM[SHARE] 
