TORONTO ( Thursday, March 23, 2023) –  Canada’s Theatre Museum announced today that it will have a new home located in the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre.

The museum is in the planning stages of a $5Million Campaign that will provide capital, museum start-up and operating funding, and create a solid financial future by building on the endowment and sustaining funds. 

Planning and design work is underway with Toronto-based international multidisciplinary design firm Reich&Petch.

Thanks for joining us and celebrated costume and set designer Susan Benson for the launch of Patricia Flood’s new book:

SUSAN BENSON: ART, DESIGN AND CRAFT on STAGE

Sunday May 26 at 6:00pm

The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto
14 Elm Street
Light Refreshments/ Cash Bar

Complimentary Admission

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RSVP
Reserve your tickets HERE

The 2019 Herbert Whittaker Lecture

Monday November 4, 2019
The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto
14 Elm Street

5:30pm – BAR
6:30pm – DINNER
followed by
The 2019 Herbert Whittaker Lecture
“Why Critics Matter”
by: Lynn Slotkin

including dinner and dessert
only $27.50 per person

Please reserve your seat:
phone or leave a message at
416-597-0223 ext 2

OR

Email:
[email protected]

The Herbert Whittaker Lectures are held by Theatre Museum Canada
to honour our founding Chair who believed that our country’s theatre heritage
was worth celebrating and preserving.

Thank you for joining us for this special screening of CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER: A MEMOIR  a new documentary film featuring Christopher Plummer in conversation with Atom Egoyan.

Thursday May 16
5:00pm – Pre-show Reception
6:30pm – Film Screening (90 Minutes)
Followed by a Q&A

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
506 Bloor Street West (just east of Bathurst Street)

General Admission (FREE); Film Only

Producers Reception ($125);

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GET YOUR TICKETS at the Hot Docs Online Box Office HERE

Or phone The Hot Docs Box Office at 416-637-3123

New Online Exhibit
This new exhibit features designs by Herbert Whittaker, and is part of an exciting new partnership with The Google Cultural Institute.
Visit the exhibit here.

A pop-up exhibit in the lobby of The Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge St, Toronto, M5B 1M.

11am to 3pm, Wednesdays to Saturdays
Throughout July & August 2017

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

Produced by the National Arts Centre in association with Theatre Museum Canada

This exhibit is currently available for touring to venues across Canada.

For more information about this option, please contact:
Judi Pearl
National Arts Centre English Theatre
613-947-7000 ext.

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. (Most of the posters in this exhibit were kept in a box under his bed).