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Famous People Players is a black light puppetry theatre company. It is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and tours worldwide. It is a non-profit organization that employs people with physical and intellectual disabilities. Those individuals share duties in dining room management, arts administration, and theatrical and visual arts performances.
The new Festival Theatre was dedicated on 30 June 1957, with seating for over 1,800 people; no seats are more than 65 feet from the stage. The design was deliberately intended to resemble a huge tent. [8] That season's productions included Hamlet, Twelfth Night, the satirical My Fur Lady, The Turn of the Screw and Ibsen's Peer Gynt.
The 2020 season had a theme of Power, and was to mark the opening of the new Tom Patterson Theatre Centre. [5] In March 2020, as preparations for the upcoming season were underway, the Festival was forced to announce performance cancellations and layoffs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A month later, the entire 2020 season was put on hold and ...
It is the second largest repertory theatre company in North America, second only to Canada's Stratford Festival. [2] The Shaw Festival was founded in 1962. Originally, it only featured productions written by George Bernard Shaw , but changes were later implemented by Christopher Newton and Jackie Maxwell that widened the theatre's scope.
The venue, which was named the Pantages Theatre, was designed by theatre architect Thomas W. Lamb and was the largest cinema in Canada at the time (originally 3,373 seats). Although construction of the theatre was commissioned by Famous Players founder Nathan L. Nathanson, Pantages managed and booked performances for the venue.
Since 1979, the Elgin Theatre has served as one of the hosts to the annual Toronto International Film Festival. [6] In 1981, the Ontario Heritage Foundation bought the structure from Famous Players. [2] The Elgin was closed as a movie theatre on November 15, 1981; [7] the final film presented at the theatre was What the Swedish Butler Saw. [8]
The Shaw Festival is a major Canadian theatre festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, the second largest repertory theatre company in North America. Founded in 1962, its original mandate was to stimulate interest in George Bernard Shaw and his period, and to advance the development of theatre arts in Canada.
Young People's Theatre (YPT) is a professional theatre for young audiences located in Toronto, Ontario. The company produces and presents a full season of theatre and arts education programming, performing to approximately 150,000 patrons annually. [ 1 ]