News & Events

Join us March 27 for World Theatre Day

In category: Events Exhibitions News

Canada’s Theatre Museum & The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) invite you to join us on World Theatre Day, a chance for our performing arts communities to gather, celebrate, and sneak a peek at what will be the future home of the museum.

Colm Feore announced as honorary patron

In category: Events Exhibitions News

Canada’s Theatre Museum is delighted that iconic Canadian actor Colm Feore has agreed to take on the role of honorary patron for the museum. Colm adds: “Canada’s Theatre Museum is a foundational resource for all. It showcases our rich cultural history and points toward a glorious future.

Whittaker set design for Galileo

Herbert Whittaker: Designing for the Theatre

In category: Exhibitions

On Now
Online Exhibit
This online exhibit features designs by Herbert Whittaker, and is part of the Google Arts and Culture initiative and its non-commercial mission to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere.

Christopher Plummer

Theatre Museum Presents CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER: A MEMOIR

In category: Events

PAST EVENT
Special screening of CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER: A MEMOIR  a documentary film featuring Christopher Plummer in conversation with Atom Egoyan.

Thursday May 16, 2019
Film Screening (90 Minutes)
Followed by a Q&A

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

Behind the curtain

Behind the curtain

In category: Exhibitions

A pop-up exhibit in the lobby of The Elgin Theatre

PAST EXHIBITION
July & August 2017

This free pop-up exhibit offered the rare chance to see costumes and other theatre wonders up close.

Man Looking at DAVID FRENCH

David French: Writing Home

In category: Exhibitions

PAST EXHIBITION

Fall 2011

NAC English Theatre in association with Theatre Museum Canada presented a retrospective exhibit about the life and work of one of Canada’s most important playwrights, Newfoundland and Labrador’s David French (1939-2010), in conjunction with the production of his play Salt-Water Moon.

Tom Hendry in Barbados

TOM HENDRY: Kickstarter of Canadian Theatre

In category: Exhibitions

PAST EXHIBITION

October 2014
to July 2016

Macdonald Heaslip Walkway of Theatre History

Tom was a playwright, producer, administrator, director, literary manager, policy creator, founder – and it turns out, a collector of posters.

Black and white man on chair woman in his lap

Renegade Bodies: Canadian Dance in the 1970s

In category: Exhibitions

PAST EXHIBITION
September 2011 to September 2014

Macdonald Heaslip Walkway of Theatre History

Theatre Museum Canada presented an exhibit by Dance Collection Danse

The 1970s saw an unprecedented dance boom in Canada. Canadian dancers travelled the world as unofficial cultural ambassadors.

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