'We must find ways to allow them to dance,' says Karen Kain in announcing 'Expansive Dances' by Robert Binet, Alysa Pires and Guillaume Côté, and the 'Spotlight Series' by Jera Wolfe, Ke…
The Grand Acts of Theatre initiative will see large-scale outdoor works staged in 11 communities from coast to coast as the pandemic has shuttered live venues
From showgirls and vaudeville to scandals and corporate rescues, the former Pantages Theatre, renamed for beloved Toronto impresario and businessman Ed Mirvish, turns 100 with a more muted C…
It opened Aug. 28, 1920 as the Pantages vaudeville theatre, became the Imperial during its years as a movie theatre and went back to the Pantages with 'The Phantom of the Opera' in 1989. It'…
Many theatre companies are closed amid the pandemic, but that doesn't mean you can't immerse yourself in the magic of a play.
Tony Award Productions said Friday that the celebration of live theatre will be digital but offered no date or streaming platform.
Guild Festival Theatre is staging its 'Alice in Wonderland, 'Salt-Water Moon,' puppets, music and dance hybrid in the east end; Theaturtle and Shakespeare in Action present the Wajdi Mouawad…
The award-winning Canadian author says his new audio drama started as a game between him and his partner's daughter.
Even if closed theatres reopen in the fall, the social distancing rules that they will most likely have to introduce will mean greatly reduced ticket sales " and state subsidies on their own…
'Ghosts of the Royal Alex' takes readers and listeners inside Canada's 'most famous haunted theatre' with biweekly episodes.
After a combined 114 years on stage Lorna Geddes and Laszlo Surmeyan bid farewell to a lifetime of character roles in the National Ballet's corps de ballet
There is finite room in the top ranks of L.A.'s leading improv and sketch comedy groups, and the performers selected to breathe the rarefied air have long been white.
Canadian Opera Company wins four for 'Rusalka'; 'Piaf/Dietrich' is named Best Musical; and 'Caroline, or Change' takes the performance awards in the musical theatre category.
Although an exact date for performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through Jan. 3.
In-person performances not happening until early 2021, though the COC is creating online offerings.
As theatres around the globe were abruptly shuttered by the pandemic, with no clear path to reopening in sight, the world tour of "Phantom" has been soldiering on in Seoul, South Korea.
A theatre actor and writer with a master's degree in acting from York University, Brefny Caribou, 28, is of northern Manitoba Swampy Cree and Irish-settler descent. She offers insight into h…
Two days of testimony and activism by First Nations artists on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube begin Friday, June 19. The initiative follows the festival's successful first venture …
'You feel completely hopeless and then completely hopeful in the next second,' says the artistic director of Soulpepper Theatre.
With major premieres like a new 'Swan Lake' and 'MaddAddam' postponed, and the search for a successor slowed, the prima ballerina turned artistic director will stay as long as the company ne…
For 72 hours, the Stratford Festival handed its social media channels to Black artists and artisans. They revealed their experiences of racism throughout Canada's theatre world and urged Str…
The Cree playwright, whose 'The Cave' is part of the online Luminato Festival, says 'the greater the challenge the greater the fight,' whether it's anti-Black racism, climate change or the m…
Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts announces 243 nominations, with winners to be announced June 29.
Andrew Alexander, 76, who was an influential member of the Toronto theatre and television scene, said he had "failed to create an anti-racist environment wherein artists of colour might thri…
Several theatres in Manhattan and Brooklyn announced that they would allow demonstrators into their buildings to use the restroom, drink water or charge their phones.