Category: Theatre
Setting the stage for a new year
Theatre school is getting ready for five new productions this academic year.
Munchstock!
Theatre goers were able to dive into the world of best-selling Canadian Author Robert Munsch in a whole new way.
All eyes on you
Tackling cancel culture on the stage. This controversial issue is the subject of a play that Henrique Santsper, playwright and director, brought to stage at the Toronto Fringe Festival. The use of social media – combined with today’s political landscape – has led to a rise in people getting cancelled. Thanks to recent generation’s obsessive…
Curtain call on another year
Season of plays at George Brown College comes to an end with two repertory shows.
Setting the stage
Harvey, a classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy written by Mary Chase, was brought to life at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts by students of George Brown College’s (GBC) Theatre School. Harvey is a story of friendship between Elwood P. Dowd and an unseen sixty-foot rabbit named Harvey. Despite no one seeing Harvey, Wood decides…
Graduating theatre arts students on the stage
GBC Theatre School’s spring season offers up two student-led productions. The George Brown Theatre School’s graduating class is putting up two productions to open the spring season. Student in the final year of the three-year theatre arts program are performing The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman and Low Pay? Don’t Pay! By Dario Fo. The…
The show must go on – Cymbeline, Theatre Arts at GBC during the pandemic
Illustration by Katie Doyle GBC’s Theatre Arts students, who showcase their skills at the Young Centre of Performing Arts in the Distillery District in the third year of their program, will soon kick off their fall season of productions beginning with Shakespeare’s Cymbeline on November 10. According to the play’s director Aaron Willis, the story’s…
The Picture of Dorian Gray injects horror onto the stage
GBC theatre school creates a cinematic experience from a gothic text