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Musicals, remounts, tours and American up-and-comers are all on the slate this fall
This is the first time that the jury has chosen five rather than four on its shortlist.
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…
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
In a $2.5-million effort, the Edwardian-era theatre is getting regilded mouldings, a revamped floor and brand-new seats
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…
Shaw Festival's new artistic director Tim Carroll announces his first season, with two plays set in Canada on the bill
Carroll discusses diversity, directors and what he views as the festival's mandate
The Dora Award-winning up-and-coming actor will play the Canadian cancer activist and icon in Drayton Entertainment's upcoming world premiere
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
Toronto-based theatre company will be bringing six productions, all penned by Canadians, to New York next summer
Dora Award-winning Weyni Mengesha is an in-demand director " here's how she became one
Drabinsky is trying to stage a Broadway comeback, after a 2009 fraud and forgery conviction, with a musical adaptation of the novel Madame Sousatzka
Our Beautiful Sons finds a powerful moment of humanity in a story about a military family
Trio of millennial playwrights take top prizes to signal generational shift on Toronto stages
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
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
Show has potential to bring long, multiyear runs of musicals back to the city
For the first time in recent memory, all five nominees for best production in the general theatre division were for Canadian works.
Critics from The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, the National Post, Now Magazine and Torontoist participated in this year's selection of winners
The Stratford Festival is seeing a major influx of young actors bringing new ideas to Shakespearean roles
Montreal company's tale set in Golden Age of Hollywood is a lifeless, eye-rolling mess
New spin on classic tale revels in the museum aspect of Lewis Carroll's story
Toronto's UJA chapter is the most recent group to disassociate itself from the playwright over his criticisms of Israel
Hinton directs Alice in Wonderland at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake this summer
