Ravi Jain News

The 41st annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards are being held virtually tonight, June 29, at 7:30pm.

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts today announced the VIP presenters, special guests and theme for the 41st annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards which, for the very first time due to the restrictions in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, are being held virtually.

In light of the current recommendations and directives from the government and public health agencies, Why Not Theatre and the Shaw Festival regret to announce that the 2020 production of Mahabharata is impossible to realize in the current circumstances and must therefore be postponed. Why Not Theatre and The Shaw are committed to bringing Mahabharata to a future Festival season and are exploring a number of scheduling options.

Conceived of and directed by Taliesin McEnaney February 27-March 8, 2020 Dancemakers Studio Theatre.

Toronto's innovative Why Not Theatre (Founding Artistic Director Ravi Jain; Managing Director Owais Lightwala; Executive Producer Kelly Read) will produce a new stage adaptation of the epic Sanskrit poem, Mahabharata, commissioned and presented by the prestigious Shaw Festival.

LUCID LUDIC in association with WHY NOT THEATRE presents the World Premiere of BRAIN STORM, conceived of and directed by Taliesin McEnaney, February 27-March 8, 2020 at Dancemakers Studio Theatre.

The NYC premiere of 'BOOM,' is now thrilling audiences at 59E59 Theaters. This multi-media, musical and theatrical event is written, directed, and performed by the Dora and Gemini award-winner, Rick Miller.

The National Theatre has announced its upcoming lineup for December 2019 - June 2020.

59E59 Theaters (Val Day, Artistic Director; Brian Beirne, Managing Director), welcomes the NYC premiere of BOOM, written, directed, and performed by Rick Miller. Produced by Kidoons and WYRD Productions, BOOM begins performances on Thursday, January 9 for a limited engagement through Sunday, February 23. Press Opening is Wednesday, January 15 at 7:00 pm. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Friday at 7:00 pm; Saturday at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm; Sunday at 2:00 pm. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison). Single tickets are $25 - $70 ($49 for 59E59 Members). Tickets are available by calling the 59E59 Box Office at 646-892-7999 or by visiting www.59e59.org.

Koffler Centre of the Arts and Why Not Theatre are thrilled to announce How I Learned to Serve Tea, a year-long series of community-engaged workshops in collaboration with multidisciplinary artist Shaista Latif. 

Artistic Director Tim Carroll and the Shaw Festival have announce their 2020 season.

Artistic Director Aislinn Rose announced The Theatre Centre's 201920 programming today at one of the company's signature (and delicious) community meals. The focus of the year ahead is on the idea of "reckless generosity".

Revenge, love, and magic take centre stage in a dramatic re-imagining of William Shakespeare's final play, The Tempest, beginning this month at the Citadel Theatre. The production, featuring the 2019 participants of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, is directed by Josette Bushell-Mingo, former director of Tyst Teater, Sweden's National Deaf Theatre.

Why Not Theatre continues to change the game of theatre with their pioneering, thought-provoking, and award-winning theatre, created in Canada and around the world. Why Not Theatre's 2018-19 programming has already seen its fair share of workshops, presentations and productions, but that was only the beginning.

A gender-bending, English and American Sign Language (ASL) bilingual production of Shakespeare's Hamlet may sound ambitious - but it plays as compellingly human. Maybe you're not familiar with the story. Maybe you've seen it a hundred times. Regardless, Why Not Theatre's PRINCE HAMLET will defy your expectations. Ravi Jain has adapted Shakespeare's most famous play in a way that is relevant and, as the title suggests, focuses more intimately on its protagonist's struggle to understand human nature.

Shannon Litzenberger Contemporary Dance, in partnership with Harbourfront Centre, presents the World Premiere of WORLD AFTER DARK, reclaiming the night - a metaphor for the sensual, the embodied and the feminine. WORLD AFTER DARK is directed and choreographed by Shannon Litzenberger, featuring lead performances by renowned Canadian dance artists Louis Laberge-Coté and Linnea Swan and an outstanding ensemble of performers

The 2018 season ended on Sunday but work continues at the Stratford Festival with a number of exciting projects in the Laboratory, the Festival's research and development arm.

PuSh Festival, which celebrates its milestone 15th anniversary in 2019. See the full lineup below!

Under Artistic Director Ravi Jain, Managing Director Owais Lightwala and Executive Producer Kelly Read, Why Not Theatre presents a season of award-winning, pioneering, and thought-provoking theatre, created in Canada and around the world, for 2018/19.

Following a national tour across Ontario and B.C., Thomas McKechnie's powerful punk performance lecture on clinical depression 4 ½ (ig)noble truths returns to Toronto for Workman Arts' Rendezvous with Madness Festival. Framed as a matter-of-fact lecture Thomas McKechnie's 4 ½ (ig)noble truths is an intense, intimate and deeply personal attempt to articulate his experience living with clinical depression.