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Both theatres are premiering their first plays of the season this week, and it's been a monumental and emotional journey to get here.
From a play that borrows from South Korean variety, game and talk shows to explore race and bullying, to a show about sex work that would have been illegal in the playwright's native Iran, a…
The 50-minute solo performance of "Maggie & Me" is one she hopes will lead towards understanding and reconciliation
The circus acts include hoop diving, Cyr wheel, aerial silks, juggling and Chinese pole: acrobats scrambling up, spinning around and doing death dives off of vertical poles. Most thrillingly…
Toronto-born Muir got her start as a professional dancer at English National Ballet and has been artistic director of Charlotte Ballet since 2017.
Here's what the Shaw Festival, the Stratford Festival, Mirvish Productions and other theatre companies in Toronto have planned as they welcome patrons back to live performances " with plenty…
Nobody has been groomed for the job, but principal dancer Guillaume Côté would be an attractive insider choice. For outside candidates, Tamara Rojo would be well suited if she could be w…
Montreal's 7 Fingers brings 'Together Apart, Summer Cirque' to the Markham Fairgrounds. Its artists have been missing performing 'death-defying acts,' says 7 Fingers co-artistic director Isa…
To mark Kain's official departure June 30 as the National Ballet of Canada's artistic director the Star invited a selection of friends and colleagues to send their congratulations.
The two-part play is being restaged in one part and will reopen first on Broadway in November.
But given the immersive show's otherwise impressive attention to detail, it's disappointing that the English-language soundtrack still features the voices of actors from the London, U.K., pr…
Toronto's Musical Stage Company presents 'BLACKOUT' from July 23 to Aug. 15 " fittingly, under the stars at the High Park Amphitheatre.
Kain announces the 2021-22 National Ballet of Canada season in one of her last official acts as artistic director. She'll step down at the end of June.
The Shaw Festival plans to present the 2021 season in Niagara-on-the Lake as per this revised schedule; however, performances will only take place if deemed safe to do so.
Starring Canada's Chilina Kennedy, the musical "Paradise Square" is trying out this fall in Chicago, before heading to New York in February, 2022.
After cancelling a planned November run due to the second wave of COVID-19, Mirvish plans to open a limited, physically distanced staging Aug. 4 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.
Close to 100 arts organizations ask the province to amend its Roadmap to Reopen or risk more damage to the already devastated performing arts industry.
Toronto actors Blythe Haynes and Ryan G. Hinds have been rehearsing a week in advance. English actors Mina Anwar and Darren Jeffries will come into the May 6 performance pretty much cold. 'T…
With the latest COVID-19 stay-at-home order in Ontario preventing theatre companies from even rehearsing or recording content, organizations are cautiously planning late spring or summer sho…
'Toronto is one of the world's most culturally diverse cities, but we haven't had the equity,' Baker tells Michael Crabb. She will wind up Peggy Baker Dance Projects by June 2023 to free up …
'Embodying Power and Place' is a collection created in response to the federal commission on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls 2019 report.
Richard B. Harrison made a living touring North America reading Shakespeare and poetry until 'The Green Pastures' came along. Actor Walter Borden and director Jeff Culbert want to make sure …
Some of the world's most successful musicals are hitting Australian stages thanks to that country's COVID-19 measures. In Toronto, where theatres are still closed, arts organizations are get…
"I have always found my place in children's theatre," says Barnes who has an extensive 30-year-career as an actor, director, playwright and educator
Featuring plays and related content from countries like Nigeria and Argentina " and from the Cree, Saulteaux and Métis nations in Canada " Soulpepper hopes to broaden artistic horizons. 'Th…
