Canadian Stage
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Nationally and internationally acclaimed, The Canadian Stage Company is Canada's third largest not-for-profit contemporary theatre company. Founded in 1987 with the merger of CentreStage and Toronto Free Theatre, the Company is dedicated to programming international contemporary theatre and to developing and producing Canadian works. The Company presents the richest variety of Canadian and international plays and musicals - edgy, provocative works at the Berkeley Street Theatre, universal productions with broader appeal at the Bluma Appel Theatre and a summer of Shakespeare at the CanStage TD Dream in High Park. With a long-standing commitment to education and enhancement programs for the public, nurturing theatre professionals, and developing new Canadian plays and artists, Canadian Stage plays an essential role in producing thought-provoking theatre and high quality entertainment in Toronto, one of North America's largest theatre centres.
The Company has four distinctive venues: the 876-seat Bluma Appel Theatre; the intimate 244 and 167-seat Berkeley Street Theatres; and the 1000-seat outdoor amphitheatre which is the home of the CanStage TD Dream in High Park.
The Canadian Stage Company has produced more than 300 productions featuring the country's finest acting and creative talent. Over half of these productions have been Canadian plays.
Matthew Jocelyn was appointed Artistic and General Director in early 2009, replacing outgoing Artistic Producer, Marty Bragg. The Company's Board of Directors is chaired by Maureen Parkinson and has over 30 members.
The Company has four distinctive venues: the 876-seat Bluma Appel Theatre; the intimate 244 and 167-seat Berkeley Street Theatres; and the 1000-seat outdoor amphitheatre which is the home of the CanStage TD Dream in High Park.
The Canadian Stage Company has produced more than 300 productions featuring the country's finest acting and creative talent. Over half of these productions have been Canadian plays.
Matthew Jocelyn was appointed Artistic and General Director in early 2009, replacing outgoing Artistic Producer, Marty Bragg. The Company's Board of Directors is chaired by Maureen Parkinson and has over 30 members.
Artistic Leadership
- Bill GlasscoBill GlasscoWilliam Grant Glassco, OC was a Canadian theatre director, producer and founder of Toronto's Tarragon Theatre....
- Producing Director, 1988–1990 - Bob BakerBob Baker-External links:...
- Artistic Director, 1990–1998 - Martin Bragg - Artistic Producer, 1998–2009
- Matthew Jocelyn - Artistic & General Director, 2009–present
2009-2010 Season
- Rock'N'RollRock 'n' Roll (play)Rock 'n' Roll is a play by British playwright Tom Stoppard that premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2006.-Plot summary:The play is concerned with the significance of rock and roll in the emergence of the socialist movement in Eastern Bloc Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring of...
- by Tom StoppardTom StoppardSir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and... - 7 Stories7 Stories7 Stories is a play created by Canadian playwright Morris Panych.-Plot:The protagonist is standing on the ledge on the seventh story of a tall building, contemplating leaping to his death...
- by Morris PanychMorris PanychStephen Morris Panych is a Canadian playwright, director and actor.Morris Panych was born in Calgary and grew up in Edmonton. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the University of British Columbia... - Intimate ApparelIntimate ApparelIntimate Apparel is a play written by Lynn Nottage. The play is a co-production and co-commission between Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland, and South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California....
- by Lynn NottageLynn NottageLynn Nottage is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of women of African descent, African Americans and women. She was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and a MacArthur Genius... - 'Art' - by Yasmina RezaYasmina RezaYasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
- FrankensteinFrankensteinFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...
- by Mary ShelleyMary ShelleyMary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...
, adapted by Jonathan Christenson - That FaceThat FaceThat Face is a two-act play written by Polly Stenham. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 26 April 2007, directed by Jeremy Herrin. The play was revived at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2008, opening on 1 May...
- by Polly StenhamPolly StenhamPolly Stenham is an award-winning English playwright best known for her play That Face, which she wrote when she was only 19 years old.-Background:... - The Overwhelming - by J.T. Rogers
- This is What Happens Next - by Daniel MacIvorDaniel MacIvorDaniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario....
and Daniel BrooksDaniel BrooksDaniel Brooks is a Canadian theatre director, actor and playwright. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.A highly regarded theatre maker in Toronto's "alternative" theatre scene, Daniel Brooks has a reputation for creating and directing cutting edge productions which combine fiercely intellectual...