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When the Montreal choreographer's duet was delayed two years by COVID-19, "it didn't feel right simply to dust it off."
"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 and Dolores Umbr…
The play starts 19 years after J.K. Rowling's books end and features adult Harry, Hermione and Ron Weasley and their children.
Oscar-nominated Barbara Willis Sweete gives new life to James Kudelka's stage work, performed by Evelyn Hart and Zhenya Cerneacov.
At 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.
"One of my goals in this work is to be as unguarded as possible. I didn't want to invoke a character," says the former Toronto Dance Theatre artistic director.
Drives 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."
Edmond 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 running a…
Jewelle Blackman has been the understudy for Persephone since the show returned from COVID-19 hiatus last September; she takes over the role April 5.
Nicky Lawrence's performance, titled "Ugly Black Woman," premieres March 19 at the Paradise Theatre in Toronto.
"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.
"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."
Reyes, an actor and stunt performer, holds weekly stunt fighting classes for those who want to battle their way into acting jobs.
Buddies 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
The American playwright and Canadian director André Sills on bringing "Gloria" to Toronto for its Canadian debut.
Before MenakaThakkar's arrival in Toronto, Indian classical dance had few local practitioners and little prominence.
The world premiere of "Chapter 3" featured nine dancers. It was recently performed by a cast of six in New York City; the gender mix can also vary.
Rodriguez's farewell comes next month after 32 years while Jillian Vanstone, who made her mark in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," will leave the company after 22 years.
Before she left in January, Wilson took care of generations of queer kids as Buddies in Bad Times' bar manager, imparting wisdom and supportive words all the while tapping kegs.
In each city where "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is produced, the theatre reflects the magic of the script in a unique way.
Bright 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
Longtime bar manager Patricia Wilson also announced she was stepping back from the company.
Shawn Daudlin, Buddies' managing director of 13 years, confirmed his resignation on Facebook.
Two board members will stay on temporarily in an administrative capacity during a transitional period in which Buddies will rebuild the board.
Yes, they'd rather play in person, but creators of three of the nine shows are happy to share their work digitally around the world.
