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Clearwater Theatre Company presents Next to Normal, the Pulitzer Prize winning musical by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey.

The 60th Season of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival opened last night with Much Ado About Nothing, but there was definitely something special happening in this gorgeous town.

From the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Bravo! will present its coverage of the 20th Anniversary of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Gala this weekend.

The founders of the Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre today announced the jury members for the 2012 edition.

Much Ado About Nothing kicked off the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 60th Season Monday night, and is pleasantly about a lot more than the name might suggest.

Each season Toronto's Civic Light Opera Company revises and revives failed and forgotten shows from Broadway's past.

Live from the red carpet, co-hosts Janice Zolf and Dan Chameroy bring you the opening night of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 60th season.

After a nationwide search, Drayton Entertainment has selected 13-year-old Halifax native, Dominique Le Blanc to portray the lovable red-headed orphan in its production of the Broadway musical Annie, which begins rehearsals today and plays at three different locations over the 2012 Season.

The National Theatre of the World is embarking on their second outing of The Script Tease Project all week long at Passe Muraille Backspace.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival launches its 60th season on Monday, May 28, with a gala performance of Much Ado About Nothing.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival has announced that it has come to an agreement regarding a first contract with its call-centre workers and no longer faces a strike.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival regrettably finds itself in difficult labour negotiations with a possible strike by its call-centre staff as it heads into its 60thseason.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival launches its 60th season on Monday, May 28, with a gala performance of Much Ado About Nothing.

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) today announced that the 33rd annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, celebrating extraordinary Toronto talent in the performing arts, will take place on Monday, June 25 at 8pm at the St.

Dancap Productions and Etobicoke School for the Arts continued their WEST SIDE STORY collaboration with a master dance class taught by cast members on Thursday, May 24.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival this year features something for everyone.

One of Toronto's favourite musicals bursts back onto the stage this month, as Theatre Sheridan graduates transfer their much loved production of RENT to The Panasonic Theatre.

Dancap Productions and Etobicoke School for the Arts continue their WEST SIDE STORY collaboration with a master dance class taught by cast members today, May 24 @ 12:45pm.

In the clips below, watch director Julian Marsh (Sean Arbuckle), actor Billy Lawlor (Kyle Blair) and the company of Pretty Lady convince Peggy Sawyer (Jennifer Rider-Shaw) to take over the lead in the show in 42nd Street, just one of 14 productions that make up the 60th season of the Stratford Shake

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Thanks to the vision and determination of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's pioneering artists, the adventure that began in 1953 with two productions in a tent is now North America's premier repertory theatre.

The Festival celebrates 60 years of excellence with a special symposium that will feature influential theatre artists and intellectuals in discussion about how Shakespeare's work lends itself to a broad range of media, interpretations and settings.

Performances of LOST IN YONKERS will resume tonight, May 23.

The young artists of the Canadian Opera Company's Ensemble Studio take on the lead roles in their own performance of George Frideric Handel's Semele tonight, May 23, 2012 at 7:30 p.

Native-Earth-Performing-Arts-Announces-2012-2013-Season-20010101 TREASON SEASON at Native Earth Performing Arts 2012/13 brings the anniversary of a colonial war that we hereby decline to euphemistically celebrate.