As opening night for ‘Yerma’ approaches, Diana Bentley and Ted Dykstra couldn’t be more grateful for the Coal Mine community’s support for their new venue.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:20AMShakeil Rollock, creator, director and choreographer of “Okay, you can stop now,” says personal histories and the news cycle intersect in more ways than we might assume.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMDespite an at-times unearned length, “Fifteen Dogs” is a must-see for its performances, including Tom Rooney at the top of his game as a lovelorn poodle.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:41PMThe TV star makes his Mirvish debut this month in “Pressure,” a British play about the meteorologists who advised Eisenhower while planning D-Day in 1944.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AM‘Girls and Boys’ made a splash in Stratford last summer, a quick jaunt from the behemoth Stratford Festival. Its upcoming remount will play at the Streetcar Crowsnest in Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:56PMPetty took his final bow Saturday, bidding adieu to Toronto’s yearly Christmas pantomime after 25 years.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:32PMMacDonald says she always saw her groundbreaking novel “as a 3D experience for the reader.” Part One opens in Toronto Jan. 20.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMThis “Alice in Wonderland” is nothing short of a delight — and Bad Hats Theatre puts on a very good show.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:12PMWhen retail stores deck the halls for holiday shopping, they’re using many of the same tenets of design that make theatrical productions pop, according to experts in both fields.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:23PMThis isn’t the “Moby Dick” of your high school English classroom and these aren’t the puppets from days of Jim Henson yore.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:35PMFrom Jac Yarrow’s offstage charisma to his vocal chops, it’s clear why Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber chose him as his leading man.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:49PM“The staying power of ‘’da Kink in My Hair’ is rooted in authenticity. And truth,” says Anthony. “Everyone wants to feel seen, heard, listened to, loved, accepted.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM“It’s especially lovely because I’ve been chosen by my peers,” says groundbreaking director Brassard.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:30PMThe Ontario native got their start in the street dance sub-genres “popping” and “locking.” When “& Juliet” came knocking, they knew it was the right project for them.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMPlaywright, librettist and screenwriter Ambrose has seen firsthand the barriers to immigration. “They’re unfairly skewed to people from certain regions of the world.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMAndrew Broderick, a “Canadian Idol” alum and frequent face on Ontario’s most famous stages, leads in “Choir Boy” by “Moonlight” screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMMoscovitch’s corporate drama ‘Post-Democracy’ premieres at Tarragon Theatre in November.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:49PM“Being a Canadian expat out here in the States, I’ve seen this rise of xenophobia firsthand. And it’s felt very scary at times,” says Sundeep Morrison.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMHaley McGee and director Mitchell Cushman are a dream team, two masterminds with a penchant for controlled chaos and mess, and they’re both at the top of their game.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:58AMStudio 180’s take on Paula Vogel’s gorgeous play corrects the record of Sholem Asch’s “God of Vengeance,” and it does so with heart and grit.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:33PM“This is an age-old tale. And it’ll always be around because it will always matter,” says Jasmine Rogers on the staying power of “Mean Girls.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AM“Ultimately, it’s all to serve,” said Wahsontí:io Kirby, who acts in “1939” and contributed Mohawk translations of Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well.” “The spirit…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AM“Indecent” premiered on Broadway in 2017 when Vogel was 65 and had already won a Pulitzer Prize for “How I Learned to Drive.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMDonna-Michelle St. Bernard’s haunting story of child slavery and community loss is unspeakably sad — and impeccably well staged.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:53PMThe Siminovitch Prize is the most significant theatre award in Canada, worth $100,000 in all.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMHer non-fiction book of the same name won the Grantham Prize for excellence in environmental journalism in 2010.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:30AMHe’s been lovingly nicknamed “The Brucester,” and he joins a long line of fibreglass statues made for Mirvish by Gerald McLoughlin.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:43PMThe stories of Kurdish female freedom fighters are the focus of a verbatim theatre production — using interview transcripts and found footage — in Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:30AMThe beloved musical set in Gander after the events of Sept. 11, 2001 has a triumphant concert staging in St. John’s.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AM“Sometimes magic can come out of destruction,” says artistic director Diana Bentley. “Extraordinary things can come out of moments like this.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:00PMHere’s a cheat sheet for some of the best deals on theatre tickets for the upcoming 2022-23 season.
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