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Friday, September 23, 2016

Gender parity just happens at Vancouver’s Firehall Arts Centre by Marsha Lederman

The venue’s artistic director Donna Spencer doesn’t deliberately push female voices or roles, but she does have a theory about why they speak to her

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:55PM
Friday, August 5, 2016

Big changes coming to Alberta’s theatre landscape by Marsha Lederman

The long-time artistic directors of Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre and Theatre Calgary are both departing, creating a major shift in the province’s theatre landscape

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 07:51PM
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

James Wright looks back on 17 years leading Vancouver Opera by Marsha Lederman

James Wright retires June 30 from Vancouver Opera

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:49PM

Onegin makes history, nearly sweeps the Jessie Awards by Marsha Lederman

All but one of the large theatre category prizes is claimed by one production, a first for these awards

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:30AM
Friday, May 13, 2016

Comedy is full of grey areas, but why pay for racist, anti-semitic or misogynist ‘humour’? by Marsha Lederman

Free speech is one thing, but who could find Dieudonné funny?

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:06PM
Friday, March 18, 2016

Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone’s Onegin a modern take on Tchaikovsky by Marsha Lederman

Musical theatre team’s first co-written musical has its world premiere next week at the Arts Club Theatre Company in Vancouver

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:22PM
Friday, February 12, 2016

Stepping into contemporary dancer Crystal Pite’s choreographed life by Marsha Lederman

Crystal Pite has been wowing the international dance world for years, but lately with her five-year-old son in tow

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:18PM
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Northern artist support network Qaggiavuut Society wins Arctic Inspiration Prize by Marsha Lederman

Qaggiq project, which received $600,000, will use the funds to provide performing-arts training to children and youth, and develop and nurture Arctic performing artists

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 09:30PM

Holy Body Tattoo returns for a monumental reunion by Marsha Lederman

After a nearly 10-year absence, the Holy Body Tattoo co-founders Noam Gagnon and Dana Gingras restage monumental for an international tour

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:02PM
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

The Little Prince is reborn with a musical, ballet and animated film by Marsha Lederman

Canada is about to serve up two world premieres of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s famous story with a musical opening in Calgary and a ballet in Toronto complementing an animated feature film…

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:27PM
Friday, January 15, 2016

Vancouver’s PuSh festival aims to help refugees adapt to Canadian life by Marsha Lederman

Vancouver's PuSh initiative pairs festival volunteers with new Canadians to help the latter adapt to life in Vancouver

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:34PM
Friday, January 8, 2016

Latino actors decry Vancouver play’s lack of diversity in casting by Marsha Lederman

Two of three characters written as Puerto Rican New Yorkers are being played by non-Latino actors in The Motherf**ker with the Hat

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:07PM
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Opera Dark Sisters puts spotlight on women in polygamous Mormon sect by Marsha Lederman

In Vancouver production of American play, five sister wives are fighting to get their children back after they are removed by the state

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:32PM
Monday, November 2, 2015

Playwright Yaël Farber breaks silence around sexual violence with Nirbhaya by Marsha Lederman

Farber aims to keep the flames of outrage alive and give survivors an opportunity to tell their stories of brutality

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:47PM
Sunday, November 1, 2015

Air india [redacted]: An artistic collaboration on the 1985 tragedy by Marsha Lederman

Air India Flight 182 was on its way to Delhi from Canada and exploded into the sea on the southwest coast of Ireland in June 1985

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00PM
Friday, July 10, 2015

Edmonton’s poet laureate Pierrette Requier on bilingulalism in her art by Marsha Lederman

A Franco-Albertan, Ms. Requier’s first play, titled Les Blues des oubliées, is written entirely in French

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 07:12PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

The show goes on by Marsha Lederman

A Vancouver company fights through tragedy to produce a dark, gutsy multimedia production

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

For Kim Collier, a well-earned and timely award by Marsha Lederman

Co-founder of the Electric Company Theatre honoured with Canadian theatre's richest prize

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

Broadway Spider-Man to resume shows after latest accident by Marsha Lederman

Stunt double badly hurt in fall during show Monday night; 4th injury on the set so far

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

Calgary troupe deconstructs the family in 'Smash Cut Freeze' by Marsha Lederman

Inspired by a 1952 film, One Yellow Rabbit theatre company exposes the dysfunction behind the white picket fence

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

Spiral Dive: How soldiers’ silences became plays by Marsha Lederman

Kenneth Brown grew up surrounded by vets, and his acclaimed stage trilogy seeks to give voice to what they were unable to say

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

Canadian playwright Melissa James Gibson comes home by Marsha Lederman

With the staging of 'This' in Vancouver, many of her relatives will get to see one of her plays for the first time

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

This: Sometimes words speak louder than actions by Marsha Lederman

Melissa James Gibson’s play adds an authentic voice to the urban-angst canon

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

Floating: Cerebral tall tale plays out like stand-up comedy by Marsha Lederman

Edinburgh Fringe hit, in its Canadian premiere at Vancouver’s PuSh Festival, takes its audience on an unexpected ride

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

Hard Core Logo Live: Loud? Funny? Yes. Great art? Does it matter? by Marsha Lederman

The stage version of the Canadian punk-rock classic doesn’t reach the heights of the book and film, but it’s fun. Take your earplugs

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

Quebec maestro brings Siegfried in 3-D to the Met by Marsha Lederman

Robert Lepage is producing high-tech Wagner without the dorky glasses

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

A lighting designer illuminates his mother’s final months by Marsha Lederman

Itai Erdal started out by filming his dying mother. He ended up by making a multimedia production about life and love

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

Des McAnuff’s ‘Dr. Zhivago’ is long and complicated, but music is great by Marsha Lederman

Stratford artistic director mounts ambitious musical in Australia

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

Spider-Man director steps aside, show faces another big delay by Marsha Lederman

Julie Taymor will still be credited as troubled Broadway show’s director but will no longer continue day-to-day duties

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

Sarah McLachlan's pas de deux with the Alberta ballet by Marsha Lederman

Singer-songwriter is third musician, after Elton John and Joni Mitchell, to see her work choreographed by the innovative Calgary company

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards