Robert Lepage News

This fall, Toronto audiences will have two thrilling opportunities to enjoy the theatrical genius of Robert Lepage thanks to The Canadian Stage Company and the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. The Andersen Project, written and directed by renowned theatre-maker Robert Lepage and performed by Yves Jacques, will have its Toronto premiere October 21 to 30, 2010, at Canadian Stage's Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front Street East. Eonnagata, created and performed by Robert Lepage, internationally acclaimed French ballerina Sylvie Guillem and award-winning British choreographer Russell Maliphant, will have its Toronto premiere on November 18 and 19, 2010, at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front Street East.

Seven new productions, including two company premieres and the first two parts of a new Ring cycle, featuring many of the world's greatest singers and conductors, will highlight the Metropolitan Opera's 2010-11 season.

Alley Theatre's world premiere of the new musical Wonderland will close on Sunday, February 14.

According to Cirque du Soleil's website, notable writer and director Robert Lepage will stage the company's next touring show which is named, for the moment, Cirque 2010.

The Segal Theatre is excited to launch the new year with the Montreal English premiere of Geometry in Venice, an intelligent and moving play featuring a stellar director, cast and design team. Performances will be from January 31 to February 14.

Opéra McGill et l'Orchestre symphonique de McGill sous la direction de Julian Wachner présentent The Rake's Progress d'Igor Stravinsky les 27 et 29 et 30 janvier à 19h30 à la Salle Pollack. David Lefkowich sera metteur en scene invité. La production sera surtitrée en français et en anglais. Les billets sont 27$ et 22$ (étudiants et aînés) et sont disponibles au guichet de la salle Pollack, du lundi au vendredi entre midi et 18h ainsi qu'une heure avant les représentations, ou par le réseau Admission (514-790-1245 or 1-800-361-4595, www.admission.com).

Opéra McGill et l'Orchestre symphonique de McGill sous la direction de Julian Wachner présentent The Rake's Progress d'Igor Stravinsky les 27 et 29 et 30 janvier à 19h30 à la Salle Pollack. David Lefkowich sera metteur en scene invité. La production sera surtitrée en français et en anglais. Les billets sont 27$ et 22$ (étudiants et aînés) et sont disponibles au guichet de la salle Pollack, du lundi au vendredi entre midi et 18h ainsi qu'une heure avant les représentations, ou par le réseau Admission (514-790-1245 or 1-800-361-4595, www.admission.com).

Opéra McGill et l'Orchestre symphonique de McGill sous la direction de Julian Wachner présentent The Rake's Progress d'Igor Stravinsky les 27 et 29 et 30 janvier à 19h30 à la Salle Pollack. David Lefkowich sera metteur en scene invité. La production sera surtitrée en français et en anglais. Les billets sont 27$ et 22$ (étudiants et aînés) et sont disponibles au guichet de la salle Pollack, du lundi au vendredi entre midi et 18h ainsi qu'une heure avant les représentations, ou par le réseau Admission (514-790-1245 or 1-800-361-4595, www.admission.com).

The Segal Theatre is excited to launch the new year with the Montreal English premiere of Geometry in Venice, an intelligent and moving play featuring a stellar director, cast and design team. Performances will be from January 31 to February 14.

Alley Theatre presents the world premiere of the new musical Wonderland about Alice, a children's book writer in Manhattan who is suffering through a creative block, estranged from her husband and alienated from her daughter. It takes a trip to a strange-yet-familiar Wonderland for her to regain her life's balance and again find the love and everyday magic that reside in us all - if we know how to look. With a book by Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy (The Civil War), lyrics by Jack Murphy, music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlett Pimpernel, The Civil War), and directed by Gregory Boyd, Wonderland begins previews Friday, January 15, opens officially Wednesday, January 20 and runs through Sunday, February 14.

Opéra McGill et l'Orchestre symphonique de McGill sous la direction de Julian Wachner présentent The Rake's Progress d'Igor Stravinsky les 27 et 29 et 30 janvier à 19h30 à la Salle Pollack. David Lefkowich sera metteur en scene invité. La production sera surtitrée en français et en anglais. Les billets sont 27$ et 22$ (étudiants et aînés) et sont disponibles au guichet de la salle Pollack, du lundi au vendredi entre midi et 18h ainsi qu'une heure avant les représentations, ou par le réseau Admission (514-790-1245 or 1-800-361-4595, www.admission.com).

The Segal Theatre is excited to launch the new year with the Montreal English premiere of Geometry in Venice, an intelligent and moving play featuring a stellar director, cast and design team. Performances will be from January 31 to February 14.

Alley Theatre presents the world premiere of the new musical Wonderland about Alice, a children's book writer in Manhattan who is suffering through a creative block, estranged from her husband and alienated from her daughter. It takes a trip to a strange-yet-familiar Wonderland for her to regain her life's balance and again find the love and everyday magic that reside in us all - if we know how to look. With a book by Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy (The Civil War), lyrics by Jack Murphy, music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlett Pimpernel, The Civil War), and directed by Gregory Boyd, Wonderland begins previews Friday, January 15, opens officially Wednesday, January 20 and runs through Sunday, February 14.

Franco Zeffirelli's glittering production of Puccini's Turandot returns on October 28 with Maria Guleghina in the title role and Marcello Giordani as Calàf, both singing these demanding roles for the first time in their Met careers. Marina Poplavskaya and Samuel Ramey make company role debuts as Liù and Timur respectively, and conductor Andris Nelsons makes his Met debut.

Robert Lepage's imaginative production of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, which premiered last season to sold out houses, returns to the Met on October 23. Three stars sing their roles for the first time at the Met: Olga Borodina as Marguerite, Ramón Vargas as Faust, and Ildar Abdrazakov as Méphistophélès.

Mozart's comic masterpiece, Le Nozze di Figaro, returns to the Met repertory on September 22 with some of opera's most notable young talent, many of them in company debuts or new roles. Danielle de Niese sings Susanna at the Met for the first time, paired with the Figaro of John Relyea, who received the Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers earlier this year.

Georgia Shakespeare announces a one-week-only engagement of the internationally renowned production, MacHomer. Written and performed by Rick Miller, MacHomer is the one-man, hilarious performance of Shakespeare?s Macbeth, performed in over 50 voices from TV?s ?The Simpsons?. With a script that remains 85% Shakespeare, MacHomer will leave you 'exhausted with laughter' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). MacHomer is 70-minutes long and suitable for all ages.

Georgia Shakespeare announces a one-week-only engagement of the internationally renowned production, MacHomer. Written and performed by Rick Miller, MacHomer is the one-man, hilarious performance of Shakespeare?s Macbeth, performed in over 50 voices from TV?s ?The Simpsons?. With a script that remains 85% Shakespeare, MacHomer will leave you 'exhausted with laughter' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). MacHomer is 70-minutes long and suitable for all ages.

Georgia Shakespeare announces a one-week-only engagement of the internationally renowned production, MacHomer. Written and performed by Rick Miller, MacHomer is the one-man, hilarious performance of Shakespeare?s Macbeth, performed in over 50 voices from TV?s ?The Simpsons?. With a script that remains 85% Shakespeare, MacHomer will leave you 'exhausted with laughter' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). MacHomer is 70-minutes long and suitable for all ages.

Georgia Shakespeare announces a one-week-only engagement of the internationally renowned production, MacHomer. Written and performed by Rick Miller, MacHomer is the one-man, hilarious performance of Shakespeare?s Macbeth, performed in over 50 voices from TV?s ?The Simpsons?. With a script that remains 85% Shakespeare, MacHomer will leave you 'exhausted with laughter' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). MacHomer is 70-minutes long and suitable for all ages.