Touche News

After the Ball, a new album from two-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole, will be released in physical and digital formats on Friday, September 30.

At a press conference held at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 235 nominations for the 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, which recognize excellence in professional theatre, dance and opera in Toronto.

Listen to Single Mothers' “Enough For You,” the new single lifted from the upcoming release of the band’s new album, Everything You Need. Following the album’s lead single “Baby Bird,” “Enough For You” is inspired by getting priced out of the neighborhood, moving from one overpriced area to another while trying to fit in to get comfortable.

Following the previous announcement that the dynamic 2022 Dream In High Park program would include, for the first time ever, a summer music festival celebrating the joy of live music in the great outdoors, Canadian Stage is thrilled to announce the complete Festival line-up today. The Festival boasts a series of six unmissable live concerts surrounded by the glorious mature High Park Forest and canopied by the city night skies.

Two time MAC Award Nominees for Duo/Group Cheo Bourne and Lena Moy-Borgen are back with more cake! Moy-Borgen & Bourne’s Office Party is coming to Don’t Tell Mama on May 24th and June 2 at 7pm. Watch them, your party planning committee, as they curate an awesome party for you - and this one takes you to an evening at the movies! Celebrate 100 years of film in song. Jerry Phelps (No Evil 2.0: A Resistance Cabaret) is our Employee of the Month and Nicole Spano (Mama’s Next Big Act 2019) joins us as our temp! Richard Lowenburg music directs. Expect jokes, trivia, songs and free cake (maybe)!

Battery Dance celebrates the 41st Anniversary of its free summer festival from August 13-20, 2022, in partnership with Battery Park City Authority.

In the summer of 2021, as live performance slowly began again after a long hiatus, Canadian Stage brought the beloved High Park Amphitheatre back to life with a robust program of live theatre, music, dance, and film presented in collaboration with nineteen partner organizations and including twenty-one productions and events, engaging over 150 artists, and welcoming over 13,000 audience members – all re-connecting communities around the dream of live performance.

Expect the likes of Helena Hauff, Objekt, Cera Khin, Asquith, Pangaea, Object Blue b2b TVSI, Chippy Non Stop, Ivan Smagghe b2b Sean Johnston, Danielle, Crossbreed's Kiwi, Tasha, Kiara Scuro, Toshiki Ohta, Angel D'Lite also all play alongside The Cause residents Jerome Hill, Amaliah, Silverlining, Marcia Carr, Reeshy, and more.

In honor of The Music Man opening on Broadway this week, Rosie's Theater Kids have released ROCK ISLAND REMIX!

The American Tap Dance Foundation's TAP TEACHER TRAINING, an intensive program of rhythm tap classes with new teaching ideas for tap dance instructors, will return virtually this summer, July 11 through July 17.

M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Chicago's premier tap collective, recently held its Chicago Tap Summit in October and concludes its 20th Anniversary with the December 2nd Friday Tap Jams, the announcement of 2022 Tap Academy classes, the launch of its year-end campaign and updates on company members.

MAC-Award nominees Moy-Borgen and Bourne bring back the show that got them those nominations.

Narrated by Oscar® winners Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland and featuring a renowned team of historians and witnesses, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass will inform a new generation that this unresolved murder was indeed shocking and perhaps even calculated.

Rogue Stage, located in Central Florida, is releasing a 6 song EP of music from its' upcoming original rock musical 'Queen Of Swords'. The music will be available October 12th on all streaming platforms.

A galaxy of singing stars, including Broadway's Kelli O'Hara, jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin, jazz vocal group Manhattan Transfer, and more will appear during an exhilarating night of performances that celebrate the power of vocal music, at NJPAC's annual Spotlight Gala @ Home on October 2.

Tony Waag, executive director of the American Tap Dance Foundation, announced today the organization's upcoming special event and in-studio season.

California based alternative rock band Crossing I's Dotting T's have officially released their new debut self-titled EP out today via Golden Robot / Riot Records.

On their debut EP, vocalist / frontman Matt Mucinero shares, 'This EP is inspired by the death of my cousin/best friend who left us at the age of 21 due to cancer.'

“Empath” is centered around the five stages of grief -- Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance -- and is being released during Mental Health Awareness Month to help raise awareness for this important health issue.

Fall for Dance North and Harbourfront Centre have announced the world premiere of their co-commissioned digital short film TESSEL on June 1, 2021, a national initiative conceptualized by Dora-nominated choreographer and dancemaker Esie Mensah (Shades, A Revolution of Love).