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The four-play season also includes the comedy "Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)," Crow's Theatre's "Uncle Vanya" and "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead."
After 13 months, Mirvish says "Cursed Child" set a record for longest running professional play in Canadian history.
It will be the Canadian company's first performance at New York City Center in 15 years.
Works by Syreeta Hector, Roberto Campanella, Chantelle Good and Lesley Telford are performed at Fleck Dance Theatre Nov. 2 to 5.
Weyni Mengesha will direct the Trey Anthony play about clients at a Caribbean hair salon in Toronto.
Romanian-born Popa, who danced all over the world, spent 40 years coaching the company's dancers.
The works in the 2022-23 season "grapple in different ways with discussions about race, climate and political divisiveness that are dominating global conversations right now."
Hope Muir's first full season as artistic director also includes works by Alonzo King and David Dawson, and the return of "The Nutcracker," "Cinderella," "Frame by Frame" and "Romeo and Juli…
Changes to the season mean Toronto will also get a hit version of the musical "Singin' in the Rain" in September.
"Jake's superb show deserves the best opportunity to be seen," says David Mirvish in postponing the solo show to April and May.
A highlight of the season, the festival's 70th, will be the grand reopening of the Tom Patterson Theatre with 'Richard III,' which was postponed in 2020 due to the pandemic.
"Harry Potter" mania appears to be with us once again, what with the 20th anniversary of the first film, the announcement of an HBO Max reunion special and tickets for Toronto's "Cursed Chil…
Izzard, who is in Toronto shooting a TV series, will perform "Eddie Izzard The Remix: 1988-2018' and 'Charles Dickens' Great Expectations' for Mirvish Productions.
The two-part play is being restaged in one part and will reopen first on Broadway in November.
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.
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'…
'Ghosts of the Royal Alex' takes readers and listeners inside Canada's 'most famous haunted theatre' with biweekly episodes.
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.
Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts announces 243 nominations, with winners to be announced June 29.
Niagara-on-the-Lake theatre festival takes an incremental approach to cancellations, whereas the Stratford Festival has already suspended the entire season.
Nominees and further details about the Toronto theatre, opera and dance awards will be announced June.
The goal is to have the Lin-Manuel Miranda music back onstage in Toronto within 18 months.
"For the health and safety of all the artists, crew and staff working in our theatres, and for that of our audience, I think it is best to begin our new season … in January of the new year…
Coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible to carry out the months of detailed preparations for the Canadian production's debut in October.