“I love this world,” says Luke Kimball, who plays Albus Potter. “Cursed Child” “takes a skill set unlike anything I’ve done,” says Fiona Reid, who plays Professor McGonagall an…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:32PMAt long last, the musical “Room” has opened at the Grand Theatre in London, Ont. It will play at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre April 5-May 8.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:42PMDrives to Sudbury and a visit to a Nebraskan retirement home, where some of the residents were passionate about the quints, fuelled Alain Doom’s “Le Club des éphémères.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:40PMEdmond Rostand’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” play was written in 1897 — long before the internet — but there are resonances with catfishing, say key creatives involved in a production now…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMJewelle Blackman has been the understudy for Persephone since the show returned from COVID-19 hiatus last September; she takes over the role April 5.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM“I just wanted to offer something of what I’d learned,” says the director, writer and artistic director about “Other People,” playing at Canadian Stage.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:29PM“The youth are the best, they’re going to take over the world,” Makambe K Simamba says. She thinks of her show as “a prayer for Black life.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMBuddies has been in a process of organizational review and transformation since the summer of 2020, involving two outside consultants and a third-party review committee
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:12PMThe American playwright and Canadian director André Sills on bringing “Gloria” to Toronto for its Canadian debut.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMBright new initiatives helped chase off the darkness of the pandemic that was responsible for over $900 million in losses in performing arts during COVID’S first year
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMTwo board members will stay on temporarily in an administrative capacity during a transitional period in which Buddies will rebuild the board.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:51PMYes, they’d rather play in person, but creators of three of the nine shows are happy to share their work digitally around the world.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:11PM“I’ve had a lot of openings in my life and this is probably the most overwhelming experience,” says actor Lisa Horner.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:15PMHuntley from England and Brampton’s Crawford play side by side in the show, currently running till Jan. 2 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AMThe excellent cast dig deep into the songs; the band rocks hard and the choreography offers physical expression of the intense, shifting emotions.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:16PM“The most important thing that he taught us was never underestimate your audience. If you don’t do your best they’ll know.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:56PMThe production that hit Toronto this week — making headlines over the arrest of its lead actor in the Capitol riot — is meant to be as much rock gig as stage musical, giving audiences th…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:30AM“If we were grateful to them before, now we’re indebted,” says Coal Mine co-founder Diana Bentley. The tiny Danforth theatre returns with a half season of two highly acclaimed plays.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM“Come From Away” stage manager stepped into a “time capsule” his first time back in the theatre since March 13, 2020. Shaw Festival performers cried when they played “Irving Berlin…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:52PMCanadian actor Trevor White is ‘nervous but thrilled’ to portray an adult Harry Potter in the blockbuster play that picks up nearly two decades from where J.K. Rowling’s books left off…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM‘As a piece of art this play will do its job to educate people,’ says lead actor Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah. The play is set during the G20 protests of 2010 when police kettled hundreds o…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AM‘She’s this great unifier,’ says Fiona Sauder. The concert will use the ‘connective tissue’ of Parton’s music to help audiences celebrate being together again.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AMFor Akosua Amo-Adem, it’s about being a Ghana-born Canadian, which she explores through standup comedy. Cheyenne Scott and Qasim Khan also perform in ‘The Home Project.’
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AMToronto venue that started out as the Pantages in 1920 will now be the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00AMBlake served as a youth advocate this summer on the Stratford Festival’s “R+J,” an adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet.” Her role included helping 14-year-old Eponine Lee as Juliet eng…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:49PMBoth festivals are staging productions this summer in which the N-word is used. To some Black theatre artists, removing the word isn’t a solution: ‘If you decide to cut that term, you de…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AM‘They were in a continent filled with Black people and all they did was moon at the princess,’ the playwright says about the Season 1 episode. In ‘Serving Elizabeth,’ she revisits th…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMThe theatre piece presents the climate emergency as a generational inheritance that baby boomers and Gen X-ers have passed on to today’s youth, and channels the fury of Greta Thunberg and …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMWhile telling a story about playwright Edward Albee, actor Martha Henry holds a photo up to the screen: A photo of Albee, looking intensely at the camera and stroking a white cat.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMThe word “immersive” gets thrown around a lot these days, and in this case the description is merited: All of the elements of this production combine to place you at the centre of its di…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:00PMFrom Shakespeare in the Ruff (stray wild animals included) to Guild Festival Theatre, from a remount of ‘Alphonse’ to Here for Now Theatre in Stratford, from ‘The Motorcycle Monologues…
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