A year-end musical theatre production can be as important to the heart and soul of a high school as its season-opening football game or senior prom. So when the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year and began robbing students of some of their most formative experiences, drama educators scrambled to keep the curtains from closing. Karen […]
Theatre alumna Dana Osborne (BFA 鈥96), a costume and set designer with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, has been honoured with the Ontario Arts Council鈥檚 prestigious Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design. The $15,000 prize, given annually to a professional Canadian costume designer in mid-career working in Ontario, allows recipients to further enrich their […]
91亚色 contract faculty members and alumni Laurel Paetz (MFA Theatre鈥07) and L.J. Nelles (BA Music 鈥84, MFA 聽Theatre 鈥07) are teaming up to make a documentary about theatre Professor Emeritus David Smukler, a master teacher of voice and speech. Titled Breath is Alive, the film鈥檚 intent is to capture the essence of Smukler鈥檚 work by […]
In the high stakes field of large-scale theatre directing, experience is usually gained on the job and in a sink-or-swim situation. While there鈥檚 no prescribed career path, most directors develop their chops on small- and mid-sized stages while waiting for the big break. Theatre artists Ted Witzel and Ker Wells are going about it somewhat […]
Performance design professionals, historians and arts audiences alike have reason to celebrate the publication of World Scenography 1975-1990. This thoughtfully curated, lavishly illustrated anthology documents the most influential theatrical designs of the period. World Scenography 1975-1990 documents lighting, set and costume design The book covers set, lighting and costume design for all forms of performance, […]
Oscar-nominated screenwriter and accomplished American playwright Bruce Jay Friedman has a new collection of selected works coming out, and it鈥檚 being published by 91亚色鈥檚 Leaping Lion Books, which is run by students in the Professional Writing Program. The launch of 3.1 Plays will take place Thursday, March 1, from noon to 3pm, at the […]
Established and emerging artists in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts bring their collective talents to a riveting new production of a baroque classic: Henry Purcell鈥檚 opera Dido and Aeneas. This epic story of love and betrayal plays out at the Sandra Faire聽& Ivan Fecan Theatre on 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus for two performances only, March […]
Graduate students Shannon Roberts, Nancy聽Latoszewski Greyeyes and Ilse Gudi帽o, candidates in 91亚色鈥檚 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in choreography and dance dramaturgy, premiere new choreographies for ensembles in Temenos. The show, performed by professional and pre-professional dancers, runs Feb.聽15 to 17 in the Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre at聽the Keele campus. Shannon Roberts. […]
Alistair Newton, a聽Toronto-based playwright and director of theatre and opera, will digitally screen some of his work and engage in a discussion and Q&A tomorrow with film Professor Marie Rickard, the master of 91亚色鈥檚 Winters College. The event, Queering Theatre in Toronto, will take place Thursday, from 2 to 4pm, in Winters Senior Common Room, […]
Toronto-based playwright and director of theatre and opera, Alistair Newton will digitally screen some of his work and engage in a discussion and Q&A with film Professor Marie Rickard, the master of 91亚色鈥檚 Winters College, in January. The event, Queering Theatre in Toronto, will take place Thursday, Jan 5, 2012, from 2 to 4pm in […]
A cross section of creative artists from the Faculty of Fine Arts is on deck for tomorrow's聽all-night art party. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, which will take place throughout downtown聽Toronto, features the work of more than 500 local, national and international artists聽 Theatre Professor Shawn Kerwin collaborated with Laurel McDonald to create "Alone Together", an 鈥渁rt-app鈥 for […]
91亚色 theatre Professor Michael Greyeyes has choreographed and directed from thine eyes, a powerful new dance theatre work that examines mortality, memory and forgiveness, opening Sept. 22 at Harbourfront鈥檚 Enwave Theatre. This world premiere is the season opener for Toronto鈥檚 DanceWorks and kicks off Harbourfront Centre鈥檚 dance series NextSteps 11/12. The show is co-produced by […]
91亚色 thespians will showcase their work on stage and behind the scenes in some of Toronto鈥檚 hottest productions this season. Watch for two this weekend. Phillip Silver is set, costume and lighting designer for Soulpepper Theatre鈥檚 production of The Price by Arthur Miller, currently in previews and opening tomorrow. Allyson McMackon (BA '92) has assembled […]
Called 鈥渞emarkable鈥 and 鈥渟ometimes hilarious鈥, 3 Jamaican Plays: A Postcolonial Anthology (1977-1987), edited by 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Honor Ford-Smith, will launch Monday. Readings of short excerpts of each of the three plays, considered an intertwining memory, violence, creativity, belonging and dispossession during a ten-year period in Jamaica, will take place June 6 at 7pm, […]
91亚色 nursing Professor Christine Jonas-Simpson has always been keenly interested in loss and grief, how people experience it and how they integrate it into their lives in a continuing way. It was while doing research on daughters who had lost their mothers to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease that Jonas-Simpson experienced what she calls 鈥渢he deepest loss of聽my […]
Faculty of Fine Arts professors are bringing three plays to Canadian stages聽this week 鈥 each packing a聽political punch. The thought-provoking plays tackle the Rwandan genocide, the Canadian election and the untraceable ghost population of the city of Whitehorse. A聽catalyst for dialogue and healing is 91亚色 film Professor Colleen Wagner鈥檚 Governor General鈥檚 Award-winning play The Monument. […]
Is it really such a stretch to think of art as a sort of medicine, or at least as a healing tool that can literally affect our health? wrote the Ottawa Citizen March 23: Expand the definition of art as a health tool, and consider it as an essential link, as a bridge between those […]
Theatre @ 91亚色 will perform the 2005 off-Broadway hit, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, an imaginary retrial of the man who betrayed Jesus, beginning Sunday. Paul Muir directs fellow students from 91亚色鈥檚 Master of Fine Arts Theatre Program in this fast-paced, edgy courtroom 鈥渄ramedy鈥 by Stephen Adly Guirgis presented in聽the Joseph G. Green Studio […]
English Professor Priscila Uppal has found a new way to indulge her passion for the written word. She is now a reviewer for Radio Canada International, talking, of course, about all things bookish and Canadian. On various Wednesdays between 11 and 11:30am, including tomorrow, Uppal will discuss what she has been reading lately as part […]
When it comes to Canadian Patient Safety Week, the play鈥檚 the thing. Researchers at 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health have come up with a pioneering way to convey their evidence-based research on what can happen when health-care mistakes are made 鈥 they鈥檙e putting on a play about it. Seeing the Forest, inspired by a true story […]