Leslie Arden News

Louise Pitre is musical theatre royalty here in Canada, and after many years is finally performing a solo show here in Toronto. La Vie En Rouge will combine her passion for French music and songs with some of her most notable English hits, and will be recorded live on June 1st with a studio audience. Louise took some time to talk to BWW about what people can expect from her show, her work with Theatre 20 and her desire to take on GYPSY next. (more...)

BWW is thrilled to bring its readers this exclusive opportunity to win tickets to three (3) separate June concerts in Toronto this summer. We want to give you guys an awesome month of Canadian musical theatre talent, and hear about your favourite under-appreciated musical theatre gems. Enter for your chance to win tickets to Louise Pitre's La Vie En Rouge, Geoffrey Tyler's Making Other Plans and Theatre 20's Driven to Score. (more...)

Theatre 20, a new musical theatre company in Toronto, today announced an exciting three-concert series for 2011, to be held at the Panasonic Theatre. (more...)

Theatre 20, a new musical theatre company in Toronto, today announced an exciting three-concert series for 2011, to be held at the Panasonic Theatre. (more...)

A "by invitation only" reading of a new indie-rock musical premiering at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in July will take place at Northwestern University Saturday, Feb. 26. (more...)

ATTIC PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS Ethan Claymore, a reclusive artist and struggling egg farmer, has given up looking for love or laughter…even if Christmas is just a week away (more...)

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 174 nominations for 225 eligible productions that opened between June 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010 for the 31st annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards which honour excellence in the performing arts in Toronto. (more...)

At a press conference held today at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 174 nominations for 225 eligible productions that opened between June 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010 for the 31st annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards which honour excellence in the performing arts in Toronto. (more...)

Previews will begin today at Virginia's Signature Theatre for the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees written by Ricky Ian Gordon, the award-winning composer of the opera The Grapes of Wrath and the musicals Dream True and My Life with Albertine. A starry Broadway cast portrays Gordon's own family story - complete with a tough Bronx-born father and former "Borscht Belt" singer/comedian mother - in a tale of two generations' struggles and triumphs in the decades from World War II through the 1990s. (more...)

Signature Theatre, the current recipient of the Tony Award® for Regional Theatre, presents the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees by Ricky Ian Gordon, composer of the acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath and the OBIE Award-winning Orpheus and Euridice, as well as the musicals My Life with Albertine and Dream True. (more...)

At a press conference held today at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 174 nominations for 225 eligible productions that opened between June 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010 for the 31st annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards which honour excellence in the performing arts in Toronto. (more...)

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 174 nominations for 225 eligible productions that opened between June 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010 for the 31st annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards which honour excellence in the performing arts in Toronto. (more...)

Previews will begin today at Virginia's Signature Theatre for the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees written by Ricky Ian Gordon, the award-winning composer of the opera The Grapes of Wrath and the musicals Dream True and My Life with Albertine. A starry Broadway cast portrays Gordon's own family story - complete with a tough Bronx-born father and former "Borscht Belt" singer/comedian mother - in a tale of two generations' struggles and triumphs in the decades from World War II through the 1990s. (more...)

Signature Theatre, the current recipient of the Tony Award® for Regional Theatre, presents the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees by Ricky Ian Gordon, composer of the acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath and the OBIE Award-winning Orpheus and Euridice, as well as the musicals My Life with Albertine and Dream True. (more...)

BOO-Arts is pleased to present the New York premiere of Canadas most produced playwright, Norm Foster's THE LOVE LIST, directed by Jessica McVea. THE LOVE LIST will play a 3-week limited engagement at Manhattan Theatre Source (177 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10011). (more...)

BOO-Arts is pleased to present the New York premiere of Canadas most produced playwright, Norm Foster's THE LOVE LIST, directed by Jessica McVea. THE LOVE LIST will play a 3-week limited engagement at Manhattan Theatre Source (177 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10011). (more...)

BOO-Arts is pleased to present the New York premiere of Canadas most produced playwright, Norm Foster's THE LOVE LIST, directed by Jessica McVea. THE LOVE LIST will play a 3-week limited engagement at Manhattan Theatre Source (177 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10011). (more...)

Signature Theatre, the current recipient of the Tony Award® for Regional Theatre, presents the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees by Ricky Ian Gordon, composer of the acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath and the OBIE Award-winning Orpheus and Euridice, as well as the musicals My Life with Albertine and Dream True. (more...)

BOO-Arts is pleased to present the New York premiere of ?Canada?s most produced playwright,? Norm Foster's THE LOVE LIST, directed by Jessica McVea. THE LOVE LIST will play a 3-week limited engagement at Manhattan Theatre Source (177 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10011). (more...)

A holiday treat awaits theatre-bound families as the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People presents the World Premiere of Leslie Arden’s 'The Princess & the Handmaiden'. Directed by Allen MacInnis, the show will be presented on the Mainstage from November 15 to December 30, 2009. (more...)