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Even as a teenager, Shaw Festival's William Schmuck knew that a career in costume and scenic design was his destiny.
The intimate show, called "Pacino One Night Only," will feature an interview with the acclaimed actor that will allow audience members to ask him questions
"Just the fact of great art, just that a piece of this magnitude " intellectual, spiritual magnitude " exists, it should be seen every generation," Schultz explains
The Parole Board of Canada said it is delaying Drabinsky's bid for full parole for up to six months. It did not give any reasons for the delay
The hit Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is holding open casting calls for anyone who wants to don the red and blue suit
Great Expectations is, by Dickensian standards, a medium-sized novel, and Soulpepper's dramatization doesn't have to skimp very much in terms of plot
Long known as the last bastion of male chauvinism in the arts, comedy is starting to be run by women. Or so says Sarah Silverman
The play, created by Paul Thompson and Alon Nashman, played a successful run at the Stratford Festival last year, where the real-life John Hirsch was artistic director from 1981-1985.
Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane was his first play and, when staged in London in the 1960s, made him an instant celebrity
If Faith Healer is excessively demanding but somewhat nourishing, Enchanted April is excessively undemanding and not nourishing at all
The director and star discuss why Dickens is so good for the family and bringing Miss Havisham to life
Rachel York and Chuck Wagner on the failings of Hugh Jackman, filling Ethel Merman's shoes and Cole Porter's songwriting legacy
Stratford Festival's Kate Hennig is one of those rare actors that exudes a passion for the theatre at all times.
Ker Wells' production of Macbeth is carried out with intelligence and imagination, and cast, for the most part, with actors who are equal to their roles
Drunk Theatre History, a boozy exploration of Canada's theatrical past, has been occurring at The Downstage, a new theatre on the Danforth.
The Rascals are making a splashy return to the stage this summer with the quasi-musical Once Upon A Dream, playing at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre in August
Actor Jeff Irving, who returns to the Shaw Festival for his seventh season in 2013, has proven himself to be a highly-skilled performer, adept in roles in both musicals and plays.
If Rooney's Vladimir is a fine performance, Stephen Ouimette's Estragon is a great one: as down at heart as at heels, and perversely glorying in his destitution.
Acclaimed theatre and opera director Jennifer Tarver returns to Stratford for her fifth season in 2013, directing Brian Dennehy and Stephen Ouimette in Waiting for Godot.
Producers say the show, about late Hungarian-Canadian theatre director John Hirsch, will run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Pleasance from Aug. 1 to Aug. 25
One of the great things " actually the greatest thing " about Joss Whedon's film of Much Ado About Nothing is how natural it sounds.
Super-agent Sue Mengers died just two years ago, but her career, in essence, died even more eons ago. And that's where Bette Midler's new play commences
Ted Dykstra's adaptation of "Evangeline" makes it world premiere at the Charlottetown Festival, in what the writer says is the "largest original Canadian musical ever produced."
48 awards were handed out at Toronto's St. Lawrence Centre on Monday night, honouring the year's best in theatre, opera, dance, musical theatre, and theatre for young audiences.
Actors Marla McLean and Graeme Somerville were recently married. But with the Shaw season running until November, a honeymoon might have to wait
