Articles related to "Canstage"

Brent Carver has had a long and successful career, with few stumbling blocks. That is, until he created the role of Gandalf in The Lord Of The Rings.

Featuring three Toronto premieres and one Canadian premiere along with two popular musicals, CanStage aims to celebrate their birthday with a bang.

Stephen Sachs' Miss Julie: Freedom Summer, presents a compelling adaptation about race, class and power set in the volatile civil rights era of the 1960's.

Seana McKenna and Fiona Reid play sisters, Lane and Virginia, who both have something to sweep under the rug in the Toronto première of The Clean House.

Panych, the acclaimed playwright and director, is at it again with his new play, entitled "What Lies Before Us", premiering as part of CanStage's 2006-2007 season.

After a 2005-2006 season with very few things to be proud of, Toronto's CanStage has opened the first show of their season, with Of Mice And Men.

We've all done the Time Warp at one time or another - whether you want to admit it or not.

The 2007 Dora Award Nominations were announced this morning, celebrating the best of the Toronto theatre scene.

An interview with theatre veteran Fiona Reid, part of a series covering such great past roles as Suzie in Omnium Gatherum and Nora in Henrik Isben's Hedda Gabler.

During Theresa Rebeck and Alex Gersten's provocative post 9 /11gem, star Fiona Reid found out that George W. Bush would be back at The White House!

New Canadian musicals can be hit or miss. In the past decade, we've been delighted by the likes of The Drowsy Chaperone, BoyGroove, Evil Dead and Larry's Party.

Theatre Francais de Toronto has a long standing tradition of premiering acclaimed playwright Michel Tremblay's new work, and as of October 18th, they will do it again.

Actor Stephen Ouimette on his Toronto CanStage production of Doug Wright's one man / woman show I Am My Own Wife.

Seana McKenna chats about one of North America's newest dramatists plus the chance to work with a longtime Stratford Festival colleague.

Canadian Stage Company and Birdland Theatre open CanStage's 20th season with The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, author of The Beauty Queen of Leenane and other works.

Kate Trotter on The Elephant Man's one-play-wonder, plus Caryl Churchill, Tennessee Williams, director Robin Phillips, actor Brent Carver and actress Angelina Jolie

It's rather awkward to say that Jason Robert Brown is the next big thing...

The summer theatre season is upon us, and here we focus on some of the big theatrical events coming to Toronto in the next few months.

It is the unwavering conviction of certainty that makes Bronx NY native John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt a Parable such a powerful compelling piece of drama.

The Designated Mourner meant several huge monologues for Eric Peterson and his director was a Godsend.

Kate Trotter discusses a legendary director and his leading actor's motivation behind playing the role of John Merrick in Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man.

Actress Fiona Reid sheds more light on the fateful choices of Ibsen's complex protagonist and her work with Shaw cast member Sharry Flett as Thea Elvsted.

The Stratford Festival of Canada, under the Artistic Direction of Richard Monette, is set to announce it's 2007 season, the last under Monette's leadership.

What's not to love about savvy New York scribe Doug Wright? Not many playwrights have the brass cojones to write about audience etiquette!

Lynn Ahren and Stephen Flaherty, the creative team behind the hit musical Ragtime, have done what many have tried, and failed to do.

This 2004 Pulitzer Finalist is a facsinating play about global discourse seasoned with hostess Suzie and culinary delights from Anjou Pear Salad to Amuse Bouche!

Playwright Andrew Moodie sparks a dialogue about race, politics and gun violence with his latest work Toronto the Good, based on recent events in the city of Toronto.

Shakespeare and the classics, plus a nine-hour work by the renowned Robert Lepage are among the best bets for Toronto theatres for the summer 2009 season.

The hit Broadway musical Urinetown made a splash in Georgetown last night as Georgetown Globe Productions version of the show began it's run at the John Elliott Theatre.

Six weeks down, and only four weeks to go. The sets are being built, the lines are being learned, the dance steps taught.

On December 6, 1989, student life changed forever when college student Marc Lépine gunned down 14 women at the University of Montreal.

Lucy Peacock, at a crossroads in her acting career, was looking for a juicy gig to sink her teeth into. Then she got a call from Australia.