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.
Our Leaving Ladies:
Canadian Actresses Starring on World Stages from the 1840s to 1940s
On now
Exhibit curated
by Dr. Cecilia Morgan
and designed
by Matthew Dunleavy
Macdonald Heaslip Walkway of Theatre History
Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto.
Trying to remember who was in that show you loved?
Theatre Museum Canada is delighted to present a new website project recording the production history and performance dates of Toronto’s professional theatre: The Toronto Theatre Database Project (www.ttdb.ca).
Canada’s Theatre Museum is delighted that iconic Canadian actor Colm Feore has signed on to be a new honoray 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.
Your much-needed charitable donations set the stage for students and theatre lovers young and old to remember and be inspired by our rich theatre heritage.
“Good Night, Sweet Prince” (Hamlet, Act V, scene ii)
Theatre Museum Canada has not only lost its Honorary Patron, the theatrical world has lost one of its greatest classical actors.
Christopher Plummer cherished his Canadian roots and his generosity of spirit was exemplified by his long time support of TMC.
With profound gratitude Theatre Museum Canada thanks actor Ron Braden for the charitable gift of $548,000 made in his Will. The largest donation ever made to Theatre Museum Canada, it creates The Gertrude Isobelle Braden Fund, named after his mother, and will help the organization preserve Canadian theatre heritage for future generations.
Like theatres and museums across Canada and around the world, our offices are closed for now and staff is working from home.
But it is great to see that more people than ever are now learning from our online resources, especially the Legend Library of interviews with pioneers of Canadian theatre.
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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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.
