Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of Canadian actresses and actors from the province of Québec, Canada. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Martha Allan – founder of the Montreal Repertory Theatre; Sir Montague Allan – businessman, donated the Allan Cup; Paul Almond – film director; Sidney Altman – Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Melissa Sue Anderson – American-Canadian actress, known for her role as Mary Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie
This is a list of notable people who are from Quebec, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that province. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The venue opened in 1884. It was first a skating rink and became a summer theatre the following year under the name "Theatre Français". [4] [5]Completely damaged by a fire at the end of the 19th century, the building was bought in 1920 by an American company, the Loew's chain (now known as Loews Cineplex Entertainment), which first turned it into a theatre under the name "The Loew's Court ...
Michel Tremblay GOQ (born 25 June 1942) is a Canadian writer, novelist and playwright.. Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood with a working-class character and joual dialect - something that would heavily influence his work.
National Theatre School of Canada 1960 (Montreal) Shaw Festival 1962 (Niagara on the Lake) Neptune Theatre (Halifax) 1963; Vancouver Playhouse 1963 (Vancouver) Arts Club Theatre Company 1964 (Vancouver) The Citadel Theatre 1965 (Edmonton) Globe Theatre 1966 (Regina) Young People's Theatre 1966 (Toronto, theatre for young audiences)
The company employed 4,900 people from 50 countries and generated an annual revenue of approximately US$1 billion in 2017. [12] [13] The multiple permanent Las Vegas shows alone play to more than 9,000 people a night, 5% of the city's visitors, adding to the over 100 million people who have seen Cirque du Soleil productions worldwide. [14] [15]
The group started in Montreal, Quebec, in 1970 as an improvisational theatre revue called The Jest Society, a pun on then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's famous goal of making Canada a "just society". The original cast was John Morgan, Martin Bronstein, Patrick Conlon, Gay Claitman, and Roger Abbott. [2]