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Thursday, July 7, 2016

What Kaeja d’Dance’s Allen Kaeja is reading and listening to by Brad Wheeler

Kaeja d’Dance co-artistic director Allen Kaeja hosts Porch View Dances

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:37PM
Thursday, June 30, 2016

What playwright Kat Sandler is watching and reading by Brad Wheeler

Sandler is the writer-dierctor of Bright Lights, a dark comedy from her Theatre Brouhaha company

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:48PM
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Soulpepper explores intersection of railway, music across Canada by Brad Wheeler

Latest in soulpepper’s Concert Series focuses on the impact of the Canadian Pacific Railway on our culture

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:46PM
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Danny Adhim’s play GuyOnKnees tackles identity and self-discovery by Brad Wheeler

The gay comedian of Guyanese descent is brash, scandalous and vulnerable – a browner version of Scott Thompson’s classic Buddy Cole character, but with a poignancy to match the cheekiness

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:44PM

Skylight co-star Sara Topham on how she relates to her character by Brad Wheeler

In Hidden Cove’s production of David Hare’s critically acclaimed Skylight, now playing in Toronto, the Canadian actress plays a London schoolteacher named Kyra

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:18PM

What actor-playwright Norm Foster is watching and listening to by Brad Wheeler

Norm Foster is co-starring this summer in the new play On a First Name Basis, whichpremieres June 17 as part of a new festival that bears his name – the Foster Festival

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:06PM
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Jorn Weisbrodt looks back on his legacy at the Luminato Festival by Brad Wheeler

The festival’s artistic director, who will be leaving his position after five years, wants Toronto to grow up and take charge of its culture

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:08PM

What activist and comedian Candy Palmater is watching and reading by Brad Wheeler

Candy Palmater tells the Globe what’s catching her attention these days

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:24PM
Monday, May 30, 2016

How actor John Rapson plays eight characters in A Gentleman’s Guide by Brad Wheeler

Playing eight characters in a murderous music-hall farce means John Rapson must be a quick-change artist as well as a versatile Broadway actor

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:11PM
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Director Alisa Palmer on her new play Body Politic and LGBT identities by Brad Wheeler

Th Buddies in Bad Times production is a historical reimagination of controversies surrounding the gay publication The Body Politic

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00PM
Friday, May 27, 2016

Forever Plaid is harmless distraction with corny, uncomplicated nostalgia by Brad Wheeler

We like to romanticize the 1950s as a simpler time and that’s exactly what this musical does

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:46PM
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

'Relaxed' performances make the theatre accessible by Brad Wheeler

Jess Thom, who has Tourette’s syndrome, developed the autobiographical play after she was isolated during a theatre performance due to her verbal tics

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:50PM
Friday, May 20, 2016

Michelle Monteith on The Heidi Chronicles and its complex lead by Brad Wheeler

Michelle Monteith plays the lead in The Heidi Chronicles at Soulpepper

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:31PM
Thursday, May 12, 2016

What playwright Trey Anthony is reading and watching by Brad Wheeler

The dramatist has a new play, How Black Mothers Say I Love You, about an emigrating Caribbean mother who is separated from her daughters for years

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:31PM
Thursday, May 5, 2016

What Soulpepper’s Albert Schultz is watching and reading by Brad Wheeler

The Globe catches up with the theatre company’s ever-busy artistic director

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:35PM
Friday, April 29, 2016

Fabrizio Filippo on his new topsy-turvy techno thriller, The Summoned by Brad Wheeler

Fabrizio Filippo speaks about his new topsy-turvy techno thriller, The Summoned

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:22PM
Thursday, April 28, 2016

How to improve diversity in improv by Brad Wheeler

Decades of white-male dominance in sketch comedy and improv have had a lasting impact on the talent pool of aspiring comedians

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:22PM
Friday, April 22, 2016

Australian composer Tim Minchin makes Matilda the Musical sing by Brad Wheeler

The cabaret-style comedian and musical satirist earned a Tony nomination for the musical’s lyrics and music

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:19PM
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Jackie Burns is an effervescent star with a trucker’s mouth by Brad Wheeler

If/Then’s Jackie Burns is a rising talent who has found success in Toronto’s Wicked and as an understudy for Idina Menzel

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00PM
Friday, April 8, 2016

Hollingsworth’s The Great War is a history lesson strong with farce by Brad Wheeler

With The Great War and the rest of the Small Hut series, a country’s history is sardonically told in all its absurdity, flamboyancy and calamity

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:36PM
Friday, March 25, 2016

The Hotline Always Blings Twice: Drake avoids skewering in Second City’s sizzling revue by Brad Wheeler

Not only didn’t a sizzling Second City troupe come to bury Drake on opening night earlier this week, it came to praise him

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:26PM
Monday, March 7, 2016

Luminato adds to lineup with Rufus Wainwright’s Rufus Does Judy and contemporary-dance piece monumental by Brad Wheeler

Toronto’s Luminato Festival continued its rollout of show announcements on Monday with the news of a pair of remount whoppers

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:46PM
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Grey Gardens: Musical springs to life in song and living colour by Brad Wheeler

With music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie and a book by Doug Wright, Grey Gardens is the Tony-winning adaptation of the 1975 Maysles brothers’ cult-classic documentary

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:18PM
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Musical adaptation of Grey Gardens hits the stage in Toronto by Brad Wheeler

Stage production of the 1975 documentary cult classic brings both of the infamous Edies back to life

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00PM
Friday, February 12, 2016

Actor Prince Amponsah on returning to the stage after a tragic accident by Brad Wheeler

After having his arms amputated, Prince Amponsah returned to the stage last summer. This week he stars in Contempt, a new play about romantic love for the physically disabled

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:46PM

Betroffenheit and The Audacity of Hoop: What to do in T.O. this weekend by Brad Wheeler

Brad Wheeler breaks down five things to do around Toronto this week

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:35PM
Monday, February 8, 2016

Mary Bridget Davies on her starring role in A Night With Janis Joplin by Brad Wheeler

In the Broadway musical A Night With Janis Joplin, Mary Bridget Davies inhabits the full-throated hellcat who tore through blues cosmically, lived riotously and died young

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:43PM
Friday, February 5, 2016

Toronto’s Michelle DuBarry on being the oldest performing drag queen by Brad Wheeler

‘A lot of my friends are dead, and now I’m getting the glory bit of it thrown at me. It won’t change me though. It doesn’t make my head swell or anything. I’m just me.’

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:31PM
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Three international productions, including Scotland’s The James Plays, to headline Luminato 2016 by Brad Wheeler

The three projects, all exclusive North American engagements for 2016, include The James Plays (the National Theatre of Scotland’s seven-hour trilogy on three generations of like-named kin…

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:40AM
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Valentijn Dhaenens on Bigmouth, a one-man display of history’s leaders by Brad Wheeler

Bigmouth is inspired by 2,500 years of oration, with snippets of speeches, sermons, war declarations and eulogies, from Socrates to Joseph Goebbels to Muhammad Ali to Osama bin Laden

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:30PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards