Michelle Knight

Theatre Passe Muraille Unveils Winter/Spring 2025 Season

Theatre Passe Muraille has unveiled its Winter/Spring 2025 season, a lineup of boundary-pushing productions that celebrate diversity, challenge societal norms, and more. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Theatre South Playhouse in Dr. Phillips to Present FINDING NEMO, THE MUSICAL Reunion Concert

Theatre South Playhouse in Dr. Phillips will reunite the original cast of 'Finding Nemo, The Musical' for one night only. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Theatre Passe Muraille Unveils The First Phase Of Its 2024/2025 Season

Theatre Passe Muraille revealed the initial lineup for its 2024/2025 season. See programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Theatre Passe Muraille Unveils 2023/24 Season Featuring 3 World Premieres

Theatre Passe Muraille has just announced their 23.24 season, which includes three exciting world premieres. Get a sneak peek at what's in store for theatre enthusiasts.

Theatre Passe Muraille Announces Renovation Underway At Historic Ryerson Avenue Facility

One of Toronto’s most storied live performance venues, Theatre Passe Muraille is excited to announce that the 23.24 season will kick off with the World Premiere of the 2-act opera CANOE, presented in partnership with Unsettled Scores, Native Earth Performing Arts, and The Toronto Consort. CANOE will be staged off-site at Trinity St Paul’s Centre, while a transformation is underway at 16 Ryerson Avenue.

Theatre Passe Muraille Introduces Michelle Knight As The New Managing Director, Revenue and Strategy

With the start of their 22.23 season around the corner, Theatre Passe Muraille welcomes Michelle Knight as the incoming Managing Director, Revenue & Strategy and has announced a new collaborative tri-leadership structure. This new structure will also see current Interim Managing Director and former Associate Artistic Director, Indrit Kasapi, step into the new role of Artistic Producer.

Rezonance Baroque Ensemble Begins Streaming on EarlyMusic.TV Today

​​​​​​​Rezonance Baroque Ensemble to join Early Music TV with the rebroadcast of “Un Viaggio Fantastico” (A Fantastic Journey).

BWW Review: Theater West End's DISENCHANTED Is a 'Not Safe for Fantasyland' Royal Rebellion

Spot-on casting is nothing out of the ordinary at Theater West End, nor are tasteful set direction or an overall atmosphere of well-themed festivity. But for all the production's successes, Dennis T. Giacino's musical, as written, never fully realizes its potential...

The Toronto Consort Launches Early Music TV Online Streaming Service

The Toronto Consort has announced the launch of Early Music TV, the first-of-its-kind, subscription-based video streaming service dedicated to music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque. 

BWW Feature: Isolating Singing Actresses Find Inspiration And Joy In Baking And Form the Quarantine Dessert Company

When Michelle Knight and Kristen Sheola met in a production of a musical, they had no idea that their mutual love of flour, butter and sugar would turn into a quarantine business... but it did.

BWW Review: MAD THEATRE OF TAMPA'S DISENCHANTED DELIGHTS, DISSECTS THE PRINCESS COMPLEX AT JAEB THEATRE at Straz Center For The Performing Arts

mad Theatre of Tampa did it again! Launching Thursday night was Disenchanted at Jaeb Theatre, a fabulous, bawdy, vaudevillian, royal cabaret featuring ten disillusioned princesses revealing what truly happens after happily-ever-after. The ladies from a?oeSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs,a?? a?oeCinderella,a?? a?oeSleeping Beauty,a?? a?oeBeauty and the Beast,a?? a?oeMulan,a?? a?oeThe Little Mermaid,a?? a?oePocahontas,a?? a?oeThe Princess Who Kissed the Frog,a?? a?oeRapunzel,a?? and a?oeAladdin,a?? took on the man who commercialized and exploited their characters. These were no damsels in distress!

10th Anniversary Special Edition Recording Of DISENCHANTED! is Available Today

Wishes do come true! Today, October 8, 2019, is the release of the CD and digital download (www.disalbum.com) of the 10th Anniversary Special Edition recording of Disenchanted!, the critically-acclaimed and award-winning musical with book, music and lyrics by Dennis T. Giacino. The album features a reunion of actresses from the 2015 Off-Broadway production, the NYC workshops, as well as the out-of-town tryout productions in Orlando and Tampa. The studio recording will also be available on CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, YouTube and other digital streaming services later this month. For more information, please visit www.officialdisenchantedmusical.com.

Photo Flash: DESPERATE MEASURES Premieres At Winter Park Playhouse

Direct from New York City after its closing last Fall, The Winter Park Playhouse opens the country's first professional production of the Off-Broadway hit - Desperate Measures - September 20 through October 13.

DESPERATE MEASURES Comes to The Winter Park Playhouse

Direct from New York City after its closing last Fall, The Winter Park Playhouse opens the country's first professional production of the Off-Broadway hit - Desperate Measures - September 20 through October 13. This uproarious musical comedy won both the 2018 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards and is set for its national premiere at The Winter Park Playhouse September 20 through October 13. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m., Thursday and Saturday matinee performances at 2 p.m. and select Friday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

10th Anniversary Special Edition Recording Of DISENCHANTED! Set for September Release

Circle Gets The Square, LLC announced today the upcoming 10th Anniversary Special Edition recording of Disenchanted!, the critically-acclaimed and award-winning musical with book, music and lyrics by Dennis T. Giacino. The album will feature a reunion of actresses from the 2015 Off-Broadway production, the NYC workshops, as well as the out-of-town tryout productions in Orlando and Tampa.

BWW Review: Things Get Naughty in WILD PARTY at Theater West End

WILD PARTY is a showcase of everything I love about Theater West End: gorgeous lighting, creative set design, top-notch casting, and a willingness to stage shows that aren't being done somewhere else fifty times a year  - even if this particular musical, about a 1920s love rectangle that implodes during a debaucherous soiree, doesn't quite compel...

Patty Jenkins and Antoine Fuqua Join Lexus Short Films Season 4 Selection Committee

After an exciting launch in June at Tokyo Short Shorts for Season 4 of Lexus Short Films, Lexus International and The Weinstein Company have now announced Patty Jenkins, best known for directing Warner Bros. and DC Comics Wonder Woman and her debut feature Monster, and Antoine Fuqua, best known for directing the films The Magnificent Seven, The Equalizer and Training Day, to join Taylor Sheridan for the film program's selection committee.

RHAPSODY & RHYTHM: THE GERSHWIN CONCERT EXPERIENCE Coming to Harris Center

Described as a definitive Gershwin concert experience, Rhapsody & Rhythm: The Gershwin Concert Experience comes to Stage One at the Harris Center in Folsom.

IVRT to Produce Peter Shaffer's AMADEUS

The play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer will be presented by the Inland Valley Repertory Theatre company at the Candlelight Pavilion in Claremont October 26 - November 9.

BWW Review: MR. WOLF is Thought-provoking, Dark, Confounding at Cleveland Play House

Over the last several years much attention has been drawn to the abduction of children and, in rare cases, their return. A short time ago, the Cleveland area had the spotlight placed on it when three young ladies, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, were freed after their many years of captivity in the Tremont home of Ariel Castro. This event makes one of the basic tenets of MR. WOLF, now on stage at Cleveland Play House's Outcalt Theatre, quite inciting to local audiences.