TORONTO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 219

Following an auspicious debut at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2016, Canadian Stage, The Musical Stage Company, and Yonge Street Theatricals will present rising Toronto lyricist and composer Britta's Johnson's extraordinary new musical Life After, on stage at the Berkeley Street Theatre September

Canadian singer-songwriter HEATHER RANKIN brings her acclaimed solo show to Hugh's Room in Toronto on September 10th at 8:30pm.

For the Stratford Festival's 2018 season, Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino has chosen 12 productions that explore the theme of Free Will.

UNIT 102 ACTORS COMPANY has just announced its long-awaited return to Toronto's indie theatre community by presenting the Canadian premiere of Miss by Dora Award-nominated playwright Michael Ross Albert (Tough Jews, The Spadina Avenue Gang with the Storefront Theatre).

Toronto's Soulo Theatre is excited to announce a Pop Up showing of Newsgirl, created by Savoy Howe and Tracey Erin Smith and performed by Toronto legend Savoy Howe, founder of Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club.

In September of 1964, a chance meeting between two men - one white and one black - reveals the bond they share and the ties connecting them to America's most powerful leaders in playwright Steven Elliott Jackson's stirring THE SEAT NEXT TO THE KING.

The Last Five Years is a captivating two-person show that offers an honest look into one couple's five-year relationship.

Six titles were invited to participate at the great North American event.

Rainbow-A Private Affair, the 21st film by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in World premiere in the Masters programme.

Concerts for the culturally curious - Polyphonic Ground is a new local initiative by live music presenters committed to building and sustaining Toronto as a global music city.

During a visit to Niagara-on-the-Lake earlier this year, world renowned actor, comedian and renaissance man Stephen Fry hinted that he'd return to the Shaw Festival in 2018.

Emerging independent theatre company, Discord and Din Theatre (This is Where We Live, The SummerWorks Theatre Festival 2015 and Mine, the Next Stage Theatre Festival 2015), in association with Seventh Stage Productions (Wendy Darling, Stockholm, 9 Parts of Desire, Whale Music and more), is

Returning to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for its eighth year, Festival Music House (FMH) today announced its all-star lineup of Canadian talent taking the stage at this year's concert.

Colin Mochrie, Deb McGrath and Kinley Mochrie are proud to host All You Need is Love, a fundraiser on Sunday September 10, 2017 on The Second City Mainstage.

The Stratford Festival's latest HD films, Macbeth and Love's Labour's Lost, are airing on CBC TV this month, giving Canadians across the country a chance to see the work of the country's landmark theatre during this special 150th anniversary year.

As The Royal Conservatory of Music's 2017-18 concert season is set to begin, five of the upcoming Koerner Hall concerts are already sold out, including the Season Gala concert with Hollywood star Bill Murray and his friends Jan Vogler (cello), Mira Wang (violin), and Vanessa Perez (piano).

October 2017 will mark the beginning of Esprit Orchestra's 35th Anniversary Season.

Shakespeare in the Ruff presents 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare, running August 15 - September 3rd in Withrow Park.

Back in Toronto from just having performed at the Detroit Improv Festival, Pantsuit Improv (Honourable Mention, 2016 Summer Blockbuster Week competition) make their triumphant return to Bad Dog Theatre's Blockbuster Week with a brand-new original premise.

In 1942 the Department of Defense relocated the community of Stony Point to neighbouring reserve Kettle Point to establish the training base Camp Ipperwash.

Yvonne Ng, Artistic Director of Toronto's only contemporary dance festival - dance: made in canada/fait au canada (d:mic/fac) - and 2017 Muriel Sherrin Award recipient, has, along with guest curators Daniele Desnoyers and Marc Parent, programmed an exciting lineup for the 2017 version of this bienni

Drayton Entertainment will bring their popular production of the world-wide smash-hit musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET to Toronto.

Local indie group, INpulse Theatre, is mounting the Toronto premiere of 'Mockingbird Close', by award-winning Canadian playwright, Trevor Schmidt.

  Red Sky Performance, Canada's leading company of contemporary Indigenous performing arts, founded by executive and artistic director Sandra Laronde, is proud to kick off their fall season with the World Premiere of MIIGIS on September 15 and 16, 2017 at Fort York National Historic Site.

Can you imagine life without water? It's something we take for granted.