Ted Dykstra News

The Colony Theatre Company is thrilled to announce its 35th Anniversary Season of shows! In this, its ninth year in its beautiful home in Burbank, the multi-Ovation Award-winning theatre company will be taking its subscribers and audiences on five extraordinary journeys beginning with two boys who dream of becoming classical pianists to two men -- one twenty, one eighty -- forced together against their will; from a new play exploring President Abraham Lincoln's humanity to a musical revue that explores Jacques Brel's musical genius and then there's also a cross-dressing sexy romp thrown in for good measure!

The Canadian Stage Company opens its 2008/09 Bluma Appel Theatre season with Frost/Nixon, the 2007 Tony Award®-nominated play by Peter Morgan, award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland and The Queen. Tony Award®-winning stage and screen veteran Len Cariou (star of the original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd) plays the role of President Richard Nixon and is joined by David Storch (Canadian Stage's Lonesome West) as TV talk-show host David Frost. Three-time Dora Award-winner Ted Dykstra (Canadian Stage's Fire) directs. A co-production with Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, Frost/Nixon had its Canadian premiere September 18, 2008 in Vancouver. The production transfers to the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto October 13 to November 8, 2008.

The 29th Annual Dora Awards were handed out at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto. Winners are starred.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell presents '2 Pianos, 4 Hands' and answers the musical question, 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Practice, practice, practice!

2 Pianos 4 Hands, starring Evans Haile and Andrew Gerle will be re-mounted this fall with performances beginning October 19 at the award-winning Penguin Repertory Company.

The Cape Playhouse is celebrating its 81st Anniversary Season with six main-stage productions with performances scheduled June 18th through September 8th.

- 'Let's do the time warp again!' Cult figures, pop culture, crazy sing-a-long tunes are on stage when CanStage presents THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW starting March 23.

Ryan Ward, a welcome new addition to the theatre community, wields a mean chainsaw-arm as Ash in Off-Broadway's Evil Dead: The Musical

Protect your funny bones!Ross Petty's riotous ALADDIN, THE MAGICAL FAMILY MUSICAL, featuring Wrestling Superstar and King of the Sharpshooter Bret 'Hitman' Hart as The Genie of the Lamp, will once again run rampant in Toronto this winter, December 6 - 24 at the Elgin Theatre.

The bold and ambitious 2007 Soulpepper season will revisit relationships established with specific playwrights and embrace some new and thrilling challenges and discoveries.

Lord of the Rings, at 15, racked up the most Dora Awards nominations; the awards celebrating Toronto Theatre will be presented on June 2nd

CanStage's Urinetown and the resident Canadian production of Hairspray led the Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, with 10 and 8 respectively