Ha'Penny Bridge, a new Irish musical makes its U.S. Premiere in San Francisco this summer, on its way to Broadway. This brand new show portrays a rich, moving, but troubled love story, set against a backdrop of political unrest and divided loyalties. Ha'Penny Bridge plays the Golden Gate Theatre (1 Taylor Street) beginning Sunday, July 6 through Sunday, August 10
CanStage presents two exciting new initiatives
for the 2006.2007 season --
The RAW! RAW! RAW! Play Reading Series and
BASH! CanStage's Artist Development Program
The producers of JERSEY BOYS, winner of this year's Tony® Award for Best Musical, have announced the cast that will launch the National Tour in San Francisco.
The Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince, returns to Toronto to The Princess of Wales Theatre for a strictly limited engagement beginning Wednesday, February 21, 2007. Tickets go on sale Monday, October 23rd at 9:00 AM.
AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival: the celebration, examination, encouragement, development, promotion and presentation of African Canadian playwrights and their plays!
The hit Broadway musical, JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, which has taken Broadway by storm, will launch a National Tour in San Francisco beginning in December, 2006. JERSEY BOYS, which opened to rave reviews on November 6, 2005, continues to set new weekly box office records at the August Wilson Theatre and has been among the top grossing shows on Broadway ever since.
Max Reimer directs the closing production of Theatre Aquarius' 33rd season, Norm Foster's The Long Weekend, playing March 29 to April 15, in the Irving Zucker Auditorium of the Dofasco Centre for the Arts.
Wilkinson will appear on the Jerry Lewis Telethon on Sunday, September 4th between 11pm and 12am, and then in a solo concert on Friday, October 28th at 8pm in Toronto.
Colm Wilkinson will reunite with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg when he returns to musical theatre to star in their new musical The Pirate Queen