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.
News & Events
Category: Events
Colm Feore announced as honorary patron
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.
Our Leaving Ladies: Canadian Actresses Starring on World Stages from the 1840s to 1940s
On Now:
Macdonald Heaslip Walkway of Theatre History
Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto.
Our Leaving Ladies:
Canadian Actresses Starring on World Stages from the 1840s to 1940s
Exhibit curated
by Dr. Cecilia Morgan
and designed
by Matthew Dunleavy
An exhibit celebrating Canadian women of the stage whose talent was recognized in theatres around the world.
Theatre Museum presents the Toronto Theatre Database Project
In category: Events Exhibitions
Trying to remember who was in that show you loved?
Canada’s Theatre Museum is delighted to present this popular website project recording the production history and performance dates of Toronto’s professional theatre: The Toronto Theatre Database Project (www.ttdb.ca).
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.
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
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.
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: 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.
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.