TORONTO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 177

After the celebratory  40th Anniversary Season, Mimi Beck, Dance Curator of acclaimed presenter DanceWorks, announced the 2018-19 season with four world premieres and one Toronto premiere featuring artists/companies from Toronto, Montreal, Six Nations, Mexico and New Zealand.

Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino will present this year's Legacy Award to Megan Follows, one of Canada's most beloved performers, who shot to fame around the world for her award-winning portrayal of Anne in the 1985 miniseries Anne of Green Gables and its sequel Anne of Avonlea.

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a 6 week run in Toronto in 2013, an 11 week run in 2014 and a 7 week run in 2017 returns to Toronto for a limited engagement next summer, June 11 - 23, 2019 at the Ed Mirvish Theatre.

The Grand Theatre High School Project will celebrate a first for the renowned mentorship program when it brings a new Canadian musical to stage with PROM QUEEN: The Musical.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra Board Chair Catherine Beck and Chief Executive Officer Matthew Loden today announced that Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno will become the Orchestra's 11th Music Director beginning in 2020/21, the Orchestra's 99th season.

Relive the romance as the Academy Award-winning film turned Broadway musical makes its Canadian debut at the St.

Mark your calendar for the 2018 edition of ARTATTACK!, the annual art auction and fundraiser for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, taking place on Thursday, November 8, 2018 at Buddies.

Silence is the perfect intimate setting for this improvised "part spoken word; part music" performance by the mesmerizing duo of South African multi-instrumentalist and spontaneous cellist HA!Man, and, Belgian writer and actress Joke Debaere.

And no other play boasts more style than Oscar Wilde's enduring classic The Importance of Being Earnest, which opens Alumnae Theatre's 101st season.

The Patrick Conner Award Committee is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2018 Patrick Conner Award is SUSANNA FOURNIER.

To kick off its 2018-19 season, Theatre francais de Toronto offers a work by Marivaux, La Seconde Surprise de l'amour (The Second Surprise of Love) - only the third time the company has produced a play by Marivaux in fifty years.

26 year old Toronto actor Hannah Engelhardt sits in a sweltering rehearsal studio just off of Pape and Danforth.

Give yourself over to absolute pleasure! The Stratford Festival's production of The Rocky Horror Show has been extended to November 25 - the second extension of this year's hit rock musical!

Drayton Entertainment will present a knockout playbill in 2019 packed with Broadway blockbusters, hilarious comedies, stirring tributes, fun-filled family musicals and a few more dramas than in previous seasons.

Yesterday, fourth year students in Sheridan's renowned Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance program began workshopping four new musicals as part of the Canadian Music Theatre Project (CMTP), an international centre of excellence for the development of new musicals at Sheridan College in Oak

Anyone who has had the chance to see a musical at the Stratford Festival will know just how talented each and every company member is.

Between The Sheets is returning to the Toronto stage for the first time in six years.

The World Remembers is a powerful, unique and Canadian-led expression of remembrance and reconciliation marking the centenary years of the First World War.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is thrilled to announce Toronto performer, theatre, creator, and filmmaker Monica Garrido as the winner of the fifth annual Buddies Queer Emerging Artist Award.

Toronto's beloved annual Dream Serenade benefit concert is back and proudly celebrates its landmark fifth anniversary on Saturday, November 17 at 8pm ET, featuring City and Colour, Barenaked Ladies, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Owen Pallett, Hayden, Weaves, Iskwe and an array of surprise special gu

Returning to Fort York for the second year in a row from October 4 - 7, 2018, The Talking Treaties Spectacle is an outdoor pageant exploring the treaty history of the Toronto area through words, song, movement and spectacle.

Headliner Ben Rosenfeld may sound American, but he brings a unique perspective with his comedy about his life growing up with Russian Jewish immigrant parents.

On Wednesday, October 17 and Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 7:30pm, Toronto Musical Concerts (TMC) presents a staged musical reading of Stephen Sondheim's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG In Concert at the Al Green Theatre (Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre - 750 Spadina Ave).

Film Mode Entertainment and Branded Pictures Entertainment are thrilled to announce the additions of Adrian Grenier(Entourage) and Mya Taylor (Tangerine) to the cast of STAGE MOTHER, a new dramatic comedy, set in the drag queen world of San Francisco.

On Wednesday, October 17 and, Thursday, October 182018 at 7:30pm, Toronto Musical Concerts (TMC) presents a staged musical reading of Stephen Sondheim's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG In Concert at the Al Green Theatre (Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre - 750 Spadina Ave).