From Press Release
Canadian Comedy Awards Nominees Announced
By Sam Mooney
By Sam Mooney
The 12th annual Canadian Comedy Awards 2011 nominees were announced on Wednesday at a press conference at Second City. There are 25 categories and the public can vote in 5 of them – Best TV Show, Best Film, Best Web Clip, Best Radio Clip and Canadian Comedy Person of the Year. Voting begins on June 15 and public voting ends in September. You do need to register to vote and can do that at the Canadian Comedy Awards website.
The awards will be presented as part of the Canadian Comedy Awards and Festival, October 13th to 17th, 2011. You’ll be able to see performances by many of the nominees at various venues around Toronto.
Announcement: Theatre 20′s Driven to Score, the 2nd in their 3-part Concert Series
By Jenna Rocca
From Press Release:
Now that the Story has Begun,
Theatre 20 is Driven to Score!
Monday, June 20, 2011
DRIVEN TO SCORE: Celebrating Canadian Musical Composers
Toronto, ON (Tuesday, May 31, 2011) – Following their critically acclaimed inaugural concert in May 2011, Theatre 20, Toronto’s newest musical theatre company, takes the stage June 20 with DRIVEN TO SCORE, the second in their three-part concert series at the Panasonic Theatre.
In keeping with their three-part mandate of celebration, creation and education of story-driven musical theatre, DRIVEN TO SCORE is an intimate celebration of Canadian composers, featuring the work of Leslie Arden, Jonathan Monro and David Warrack. Read the rest of this entry »
Announcement: NIGHTWOOD THEATRE announces its 2011-2012 season with Atwood’s The Penelopiad as the centre piece
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From Press Release
Toronto, ON… Nightwood Theatre announces its 2011-2012 season as the largest in the company’s history, premiering 3 world class plays, a new national festival and working with 44 of the country’s finest female artists including playwright Margaret Atwood, actors Megan Follows and Barbara Gordon, comedian Elvira Kurt and designer Kimberly Purtell. For its 32nd season, Nightwood is truly fulfilling the company’s position as Canada’s National Women’s Theatre.
Announcement: Buddies In Bad Times Theatre Announces Programming for its 2011- 2012 Season
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From Press Release
For its 2011/12 Season, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre offers a collection of some of the world’s major dramatists including Jean Genet, Martin Crimp, Caryl Churchill, Larry Kramer and Margaret Atwood. It is a season of bold re-imaginings and revisions of canonical works and sacred stories that furthers Buddies’ position as one of the country’s most dynamic theatre companies.
Announcement: LORRAINE KIMSA THEATRE RETURNS TO ITS ROOTS WITH A NAME CHANGE AND A POWERFUL NEW SEASON 2011-12 Season: Change Your World
By Jenna Rocca
The 2011-12 Season will bring with it a playbill of dynamic theatrical experiences certain to affect positive change in the lives of young people and those who care about them. It will also denote a significant change to the theatre – our name. Beginning July 1st, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People will return to the name it was given in 1966 by founder Susan Douglas Rubes: Young Peoples Theatre (YPT).
When Kevin Kimsa graciously donated 1.5 million dollars to the company in 2001 to help eliminate a crippling debt, YPT was pleased to acknowledge his generosity, given in honour of his mother Mrs. Lorraine Kimsa and her years of nurturing aspiring talent through her dedicated work in community theatre. The company took her name and began a decade of growth and change. The Kimsa donation has sustained the theatre through many challenges and strengthened its ability to engage young people, their families and communities with the real issues of the day, and to entertain at the highest level.
Announcement: Factory Theatre’s 2011/12 Season Welcomes New And Returning Artists & Audiences
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From Press Release
“Factory’s 42nd Season promises to be one of our most exciting ever,” says Artistic Director Ken Gass as he and Managing Director Sara Meurling announce Factory Theatre’s 2011/12 Season.
“We have an exceptional line up of theatrical Canadian productions and artists from coast to coast that opens with two Daniel Brooks/Rick Miller collaborations, Bigger Than Jesus and HARDSELL, as well as the long-running hit, MacHomer, to complete the trio of solo performances by Rick Miller.
Other season highlights include a major revival of Tomson Highway’s Canadian classic, The Rez Sisters, with a culturally-diverse cast directed by Ken Gass; critically-acclaimed puppeteer Ronnie Burkett’s extraordinary new creation, Penny Plain; Vancouver novelist/playwright Anosh Irani’s hilarious comedy, My Granny the Goldfish, and the latest theatrical event from Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland’s Jillian Keiley and Robert Chafe, Oil and Water, featuring a cast of ten performers and gospel music by Andrew Craig. Gass concludes, “I’m thrilled to announce a season that combines high entertainment value with the vivid theatrical imaginations of some of Canada’s most innovative theatre artists.”
BMO Financial Group is Factory Theatre’s 2011/12 Season Sponsor. (http://www.factorytheatre.ca/2011_12season.html).
American Idiot Open Call Auditions
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“THE FIRST GREAT MUSICAL OF THE 21ST CENTURY” – Toronto Star
AMERICAN IDIOT TO HOLD OPEN CALL AUDITIONS IN TORONTO
Saturday, March 26 @ Roy Thomson Hall
The producers of the critically acclaimed Broadway hit AMERICAN IDIOT will hold Open Call Auditions, for all roles, in Toronto on Saturday, March 26 at Roy Thomson Hall. AMERICAN IDIOT will play the Toronto Centre for the Arts, December 28, 2011 – January 15, 2012.
The Open Call Auditions will begin at 11am, on a first come basis. Please enter Roy Thomson Hall (60 Simcoe Street) via the stage door/artists entrance at the south end of the Hall off Wellington Street. Read the rest of this entry »
Announcement: Tarragon Announces the 2011-2012 season of New, Global and Classic Canadian Plays
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From Press Release
Artistic Director Richard Rose and General Manager Camilla Holland are pleased to announce Tarragon’s 2011–12 season of plays—the beginning to our fourth decade.
2011–12 at the Tarragon is a season of stories that speak directly to the lives of Toronto residents; featuring international visionaries, warped fairy tales, cultural clashes, the advent of electricity, family dysfunction, a Canadian classic, the Second Commandment, and an occasional cooking class.
Announcement: Canadian Stage to bring the work of Egoyan, Crimp, Logan, Pite, Beckett and more to their 2011/12 Season
By Jenna Rocca
by Jenna Rocca
Canadian Stage will continue to bring Toronto groundbreaking and imaginative contemporary theatre with its just announced 2011-12 season. Yesterday, General and Artistic Director Matthew Jocelyn explained that he hopes to continue to”define and realize a new position for Canadian Stage,” working with what he describes as “original, bold, and fearless” artists, bringing the audience on “enchanting, unexpected, and thrilling theatrical voyages.”
The lineup of shows for the next season is indeed “bold” and draws a strong continuity with the programming of Jocelyn’s past seasons. With more exciting nude choreographic works, the works of international artists and a newly commissioned translation, the lineup is a veritable pastiche of the trends in the contemporary theatre scene, bringing together artists of both local and international scope. Read the rest of this entry »
STUCK IN THE SNOWNAMI? LKTYP Offers Relief to Families with Snowbound Children
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From Press Release
With most Toronto schools closed today, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People would like to help make this snow-day fun for parents and children alike by providing a very special offer to come to today’s 1:00 pm preview performance of our action-packed production, The Big League — an exciting show that takes a humorous look at sportsmanship in the world of triple A hockey.
Here’s the snow-day scoop: Buy 1 regular $10 preview ticket, get a second ticket for FREE!
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