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The Company Theatre
The Company Theatre is a Toronto-based independent theatre company that produces provocative international plays with Canada's best actors. History The Company Theatre (TCT) was created in 2004 by Canadian actors Allan Hawco and Philip Riccio. Their goal was to create a company that encouraged actors to use their natural human instincts to create the most powerful, viscerally exciting on-stage performances possible. Wanting to provide audiences with exciting, relatable and thought-provoking experiences, they focused on producing Canadian premieres of deeply human international stories. Today, TCT works with a mix of established and emerging actors from across the country, inspiring them to embrace their instincts in each performance to create radically live theatre. Sometimes provocative and often hard-hitting, TCT’s shows stem from a place of curiosity and authenticity, free from choreographed and often limiting choices. Their debut production, the Canadian premiere of '' A Whis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Norris (playwright)
Bruce Norris (born May 16, 1960) is an American character actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His play ''Clybourne Park'' won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Career After graduating from Northwestern University in 1982 with a degree in theatre, Norris set out to become an actor. He performed at Victory Gardens Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre and on Broadway. His Broadway acting credits include David Hirson's ''Wrong Mountain'' (January to February 2000), Wendy Wasserstein's ''An American Daughter'' (April to June 1997), and Neil Simon's '' Biloxi Blues'' (March 1985 to June 1986)."Bruce Norris Broadway Credits and Awards" playbillvault.com, accessed August 31, 2015 During this time he was also "hired and fired from a number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Blood (TV Series)
''Bad Blood'' is a Canadian crime drama television series created and produced by Simon Barry. The show premiered on Citytv on September 21, 2017. The series ran for two seasons totaling 14 episodes until November 29, 2018. A French-language version of the show premiered on November 11, 2017 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé under the title ''Les liens du sang''. Initially intended as a miniseries, it was renewed by Rogers Media for a second season in March 2018, which was broadcast on Citytv and FX Canada. The first season is a dramatization of the rise and fall of the real-life Rizzuto crime family, a Montreal-based organized crime family, and is based on the 2015 book ''Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War'' by Antonio Nicaso and Peter Edwards. The second season departs from the book and is fully fictional. The Rizzuto crime family consists of crime boss Vito Rizzuto (Anthony LaPaglia), high-ranking member Declan Gardiner (Kim Coates), consigliere Bruno Bonsignori (Enr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sons Of Anarchy
''Sons of Anarchy'' is an American action crime drama television series created by Kurt Sutter for FX. Originally aired from September 3, 2008 to December 9, 2014, ''Sons of Anarchy'' follows the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley. Charlie Hunnam stars as Jackson "Jax" Teller, who is initially the vice president and subsequently the president of the club. After discovering a manifesto written by his late father, John, who previously led the club, he begins to question himself, his relationships, and the club. Themes throughout the show include love, brotherhood, loyalty, betrayal and redemption. It explored vigilantism, government corruption and racism. The show's plot depicted an outlaw motorcycle club as an analogy for human transformation. David Labrava, a real-life member of the Oakland chapter of Hells Angels, served as a technical adviser, and also played the recurring character Happy Lowma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Coates
Kim F. Coates (born February 21, 1958) is a Canadian–American actor who has worked in both Canadian and American films and television series. He has worked on Broadway portraying Stanley Kowalski in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' and in the lead role of ''Macbeth'' performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He is best known for his role as Alexander "Tig" Trager in the FX series ''Sons of Anarchy'' and as Declan Gardiner in the Citytv series '' Bad Blood'', as well as his recurring roles in ''Prison Break'', ''Cold Case'', '' CSI'' and ''CSI: Miami''. He has also had film roles in ''The Last Boy Scout'' (1991), '' Bad Boys'' (1995), ''King of Sorrow'' (2006), ''Goon'' (2011). Early life and career Coates was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Frederick "Fred" and Joyce Coates. He first saw a play while attending the University of Saskatchewan, where he enrolled in a drama course as an elective. This experience inspired him to pursue an acting career. Coates por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jez Butterworth
Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth (born March 1969) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has written screenplays in collaboration with his brothers, John-Henry Butterworth, John-Henry and Tom. Life and career In March 1969, Butterworth was born in London, England. He has three brothers: older brothers Tom (born 1966) and Steve (born 1968); and younger brother John-Henry Butterworth, John-Henry (born 1976). He also has a sister, Joanna. He attended Verulam School, Verulam Comprehensive School, St Albans and St John's College, Cambridge. All the brothers have been active in film and theatre: Steve is a producer, while Tom and John-Henry Butterworth, John-Henry are writers. Butterworth's play ''Mojo (play), Mojo'', which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995, won the 1996 Laurence Olivier Award, Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard Award, ''Evening Standard'', The Writer's Guild, and the George Devine awards, and the Critic's Circle Award. Butterworth also wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now (newspaper)
''Now'' (styled as ''NOW''), also known as ''NOW Magazine'' is an online publication based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Throughout most of its existence, ''Now'' was a free alternative weekly newspaper. Physical publication of ''Now'' was suspended in August 2022, and there are no current plans to resume printed publication. Publication history ''Now'' was first published on September 10, 1981, by Michael Hollett and Alice Klein."Publisher of Toronto's iconic NOW Magazine files for bankruptcy." ''blogTO'', April 1, 2022. ''NOW'' is an alternative weekly that covers news, culture, arts, and entertainment. In its printed incarnation, ''NOW'' was published 52 times a year and could be picked up in Toronto subway stations, cafes, variety st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands (Torstar), Daily News Brands division. The newspaper's offices are located at One Yonge Street in the Harbourfront, Toronto, Harbourfront neighbourhood of Toronto. The newspaper was established in 1892 as the ''Evening Star'' and was later renamed the ''Toronto Daily Star'' in 1900, under Joseph E. Atkinson. Atkinson was a major influence in shaping the editorial stance of the paper, with the paper having reflected his values until his death in 1948. The paper was renamed the ''Toronto Star'' in 1971. The newspaper introduced a Sunday edition in 1973. History The ''Star'' was created in 1892 by striking ''Toronto News'' printers and writers, led by future mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Globe And Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it falls slightly behind the ''Toronto Star'' in overall weekly circulation because the ''Star'' publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the ''Globe'' does not. ''The Globe and Mail'' is regarded by some as Canada's " newspaper of record". ''The Globe and Mail''s predecessors, '' The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of ''The Toronto Mail'' and the ''Toronto Empire''. In 1936, ''The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' merged to form ''The Globe and Mail''. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the paper to the Thomson Corporation in 1980. In 2001, the paper merged with broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Beatty
Nancy Beatty is a Canadian actress. Best known as a stage actress,"Veteran actress lands the mother of all mother roles in The Glass Menagerie". '' Calgary Herald'', November 30, 1999. she has also appeared in film and television roles. On stage, she is a four-time Dora Mavor Moore Award winner, winning in 1990 for George F. Walker's '' Love and Anger'', in 1991 for Morris Panych's ''7 Stories'', in 1995 for John Murrell's ''The Faraway Nearby'' and in 1999 for Walker's ''Risk Everything''. She was also a nominee in 1986 for Don Hannah's ''The Wedding Script'' and in 1997 for Carole Fréchette's ''The Four Lives of Marie''. In film, she appeared in '' The Michelle Apartments'', '' Henry & Verlin'', ''Life with Billy'', '' Losing Chase'', '' The Confessor'', '' Casino Jack'', ''Lars and the Real Girl'', '' The Shipping News'' and '' For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down''. She garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 15th Genie Awards in 1994 for ''Henry & Verlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Baker
Annie Baker (born April 1981) is an American playwright and teacher who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her play ''The Flick.'' Among her works are the Shirley, Vermont plays, which take place in the fictional town of Shirley: ''Circle Mirror Transformation'', '' Nocturama'', '' Body Awareness'', and '' The Aliens.'' She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. Early life Baker's family lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when Baker was born, but soon moved to Amherst, Massachusetts, where she grew up and where her father, Conn Nugent, was an administrator for the Five Colleges consortium and her mother Linda Baker was a psychology doctoral student. Her brother is author Benjamin Baker Nugent. Baker graduated from the Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in playwriting from Brooklyn College in 2009. One of her early jobs was as a guest-wrangler helping to oversee contestants on the reality-tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festen (play)
''Festen'' is a British stage adaptation of the 1998 Danish Festen, film of the same name (''The Celebration'' being the film's release title in North America). The adaptation is by English playwright David Eldridge (dramatist), David Eldridge. It was first staged in 2004 by producer Marla Rubin at the Almeida Theatre in London, and has since been staged in many countries around the world. Synopsis As in the original movie, ''Festen'' satirises the hypocrisy of a large and wealthy family by observing the events that unfold at the ancestral home during a reunion held to celebrate the oldest family member's 60th birthday. As the time arises for birthday speeches to be made to the party's subject, one of his sons stands and asks the assembled guests to choose which of two prepared speeches he should read. The guests select one not knowing its contents, and the son declares it the "truth speech". As he begins to talk, it becomes dramatically clear that he is not praising his father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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