From Press Release
For its 2011/12 Season, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre offers a collection of some of the world’s major dramatists including Jean Genet, Martin Crimp, Caryl Churchill, Larry Kramer and Margaret Atwood. It is a season of bold re-imaginings and revisions of canonical works and sacred stories that furthers Buddies’ position as one of the country’s most dynamic theatre companies.
From Press Release
“Factory’s 42nd Season promises to be one of our most exciting ever,” says Artistic Director Ken Gass as he and Managing Director Sara Meurling announce Factory Theatre’s 2011/12 Season.
“We have an exceptional line up of theatrical Canadian productions and artists from coast to coast that opens with two Daniel Brooks/Rick Miller collaborations, Bigger Than Jesus and HARDSELL, as well as the long-running hit, MacHomer, to complete the trio of solo performances by Rick Miller.
Other season highlights include a major revival of Tomson Highway’s Canadian classic, The Rez Sisters, with a culturally-diverse cast directed by Ken Gass; critically-acclaimed puppeteer Ronnie Burkett’s extraordinary new creation, Penny Plain; Vancouver novelist/playwright Anosh Irani’s hilarious comedy, My Granny the Goldfish, and the latest theatrical event from Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland’s Jillian Keiley and Robert Chafe, Oil and Water, featuring a cast of ten performers and gospel music by Andrew Craig. Gass concludes, “I’m thrilled to announce a season that combines high entertainment value with the vivid theatrical imaginations of some of Canada’s most innovative theatre artists.”
BMO Financial Group is Factory Theatre’s 2011/12 Season Sponsor. (http://www.factorytheatre.ca/2011_12season.html).
“THE FIRST GREAT MUSICAL OF THE 21ST CENTURY” – Toronto Star
AMERICAN IDIOT TO HOLD OPEN CALL AUDITIONS IN TORONTO
Saturday, March 26 @ Roy Thomson Hall
The producers of the critically acclaimed Broadway hit AMERICAN IDIOT will hold Open Call Auditions, for all roles, in Toronto on Saturday, March 26 at Roy Thomson Hall. AMERICAN IDIOT will play the Toronto Centre for the Arts, December 28, 2011 – January 15, 2012.
The Open Call Auditions will begin at 11am, on a first come basis. Please enter Roy Thomson Hall (60 Simcoe Street) via the stage door/artists entrance at the south end of the Hall off Wellington Street. Continue reading American Idiot Open Call Auditions
From Press Release
Artistic Director Richard Rose and General Manager Camilla Holland are pleased to announce Tarragon’s 2011–12 season of plays—the beginning to our fourth decade.
2011–12 at the Tarragon is a season of stories that speak directly to the lives of Toronto residents; featuring international visionaries, warped fairy tales, cultural clashes, the advent of electricity, family dysfunction, a Canadian classic, the Second Commandment, and an occasional cooking class.
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