Wayne Leung (1981-2019)
Wayne was the Managing Editor of Mooney on Theatre from 2012 - 2019 and will be sorely missed. His death from an apparent heart attack was a loss not just to Mooney on Theatre, but also to the Toronto Theatre Community at large. You can read our publisher Megan Mooney's tribute to him here here.
Wayne was a writer, editor and corporate communications professional who was thrilled to be a part of the Mooney on Theatre team. Wayne loved theatre ever since his aunt brought him to a production of Les Misérables at the tender age of ten . . . despite the fact that, at that age, the show’s plot was practically indiscernible and the battle scenes scared the bejeezus out of him. Wayne’s current list of likes ran the gamut from opera, ballet and Shakespeare to Broadway musicals, circus and Fringe theatre. Outside of the theatre Wayne’s interests included travel, technology and food.
Canadian Stage presents the Toronto premiere of Electric Company’s noir-style psychological thriller Tear the Curtain, blurring the boundaries between theatre and film.
The Canadian Stage opens its 2012-13 season with Electric Company’s Tear the Curtain; a gritty, disorienting psychological thriller and a stylistic tour-de-force hybrid of theatre and film.
Toronto audiences last got a taste of the unique, genre-melding style of Vancouver’s Electric Company in 2010 when Canadian Stage presented their Studies in Motion, a play incorporating intricate projections and choreography in its storytelling. Director Kim Collier also helmed the Mark Rothko bio-play RED for Canadian Stage last season.
Today, Mirvish sent the following open letter to the media about his plans to build a new condo complex in the Entertainment District which includes the “removal” of the Princess of Wales Theatre he built in 1993. Despite his rationale for demolishing the theatre, as I expressed in a piece yesterday, losing one of Toronto’s major theatres for condos is a bitter pill to swallow.
Mirvish plans to replace the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto’s Entertainment District with a Frank Gehry-designed condo project
Editors’ Note: The opinions expressed in featured op-eds are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the point of view of Mooney on Theatre. We publish them to create a dialogue and strive to feature a multitude of voices.
The new complex, designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, will reportedly feature three 80-storey condo towers, retail space, function space and two art museums; one to publicly display the Mirvish’s private collection of abstract art, the other in partnership with OCAD. Continue reading Mirvish to close the Princess of Wales Theatre→
We put MGM Resorts’ plans to create a facility for Cirque du Soleil in Toronto through a reality check.
Editors’ Note: The opinions expressed in featured op-eds are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the point of view of Mooney on Theatre. We publish them to create a dialogue and strive to feature a multitude of voices.
Proud, Michael Healey’s brilliant satirical play finally gets its day in the sun at Toronto’s Berkeley Street Theatre
I’m originally from Ottawa so I’m obviously a political junkie. Growing up in the shadow of the Hill you can’t help but become engrossed in the machinations of the federal government. Ottawa is a small, insular town and politics is something of a spectator sport there. Continue reading Review: Proud a new play by Michael Healey→
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