22 stories from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
"The Swedish Academy ... announc[ed] Friday that the prize will not be handed out this year, on the grounds that the academy is in no shape to pick a winner after a string of sex abuse alleg…
"It is the determination of this audit that the taxpayer operates as a personal endeavour (a hobby), not a business," Canadian Revenue Agency said in its Jan. 26, 2018, reassessment letter t…
The museum, an hour north of Toronto, sits on ground that has low-level radioactive contamination - and now it is being forced to pack up and leave ... with nowhere to go. "'We thought we ha…
It could be an early sign that the days of the barcode are numbered as technological improvements allow companies to replace them with more secure digital tickets with codes embedded in a fa…
"The Montreal-based Grands Ballets Canadiens has changed the name and theme of its show Femmes, after women" - and not only women - "criticized the company for commissioning a ballet touted …
"A planned increase in federal funding for Soulpepper Theatre has been voted down by the Canada Council for the Arts' board of directors. On Thursday, the council's board voted to rescind an…
In a statement issued Thursday evening, Albert Schultz said, "While I will continue to vigorously defend myself against the allegations that are being made, I have made this decision in the …
The plaintiffs' suits against the company and its artistic director, Albert Schultz, seek a total of well over $6 million. At the board's direction, Schultz has taken what's being called a l…
'By first rehearsal, the students had memorized the entire score,' teacher says
Phillips's numerous directing credits included a London production of Long Day's Journey into Night starring Jessica Lange, the Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde, and a Canadian Opera Company…
Lloyd Nicholson, a prominent figure on the West Coast theatre scene, died suddenly Wednesday morning in Ottawa, where he has been overseeing a remount of The Drowsy Chaperone.
The Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., has announced an unusual bequest under which it will receive part of the proceeds from the musical and film rights of My Fair Lady, a beloved adaptation of one of Bernard Shaw's plays.
David Henry Hwang, the American playwright of Tony-award winning play M. Butterfly and Chinglish, remains fascinated by cross-cultural identity in his writing.
When he first set out to be…
Canadian theatre marquees have beamed with pre-Broadway buzz in recent months and there are more to come in 2012.
Today, cast members from the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's hit production of Jesus Christ Superstar dropped by Studio Q to perform songs from the musical. Stratford's artistic director an…
