Acting Up Stage Company

Q&A: Reframed

Lauren Gillett — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:01:25 +0000

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Acting Up Stage Company's Mitchell Marcus talks about innovative partnership with AGO

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Interview

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Presented by Acting Up Stage Company and the Art Gallery of Ontario
Written and composed by Sara Farb & Britta Johnson, Erin Shields & Bryce Kulak and Julie Tepperman & Kevin Wong

Reframed is Acting Up Stage Company’s latest initiative to foster Canadian composers, lyricists, and bookwriters and the creation of new Canadian musical theatre, in partership with the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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Tue, 2016-04-12 - Sun, 2016-04-17

Theatre:

Art Gallery of Ontario

Grey Gardens

Lauren Gillett — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:28:09 +0000

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Dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship is front and centre in moving musical

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Review

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Presented by Acting Up Stage Company
Book by Doug Wright, Music by Scott Frankel & Lyrics by Michael Korie
Based on the film Grey Gardens by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Mayer and Susan Froemke
Directed by Ann Hodges

If you loved the Maysles Brothers' 1976 documentary Grey Gardens you need to see this show. If you haven't seen the film, you need to watch it and then go see this show. Grey Gardens the musical, with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie, won three Tony Awards in 2007.

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4.5

Show Dates:

Fri, 2016-02-19 - Sun, 2016-03-06

Theatre:

Berkeley Street Theatre

Q&A: Grey Gardens

Lauren Gillett — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:15:06 +0000

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Lisa Horner talks about performing in musical adaptation of Grey Gardens

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Interview

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Based on the 1976 cult classic documentary, Grey Gardens is a musical about two “staunch” and legendary women: Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale—the infamous aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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Fri, 2016-02-19 - Sun, 2016-03-06

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Berkeley Street Theatre

Q&A: Ballad of the Burning Star

Lauren Gillett — Wed, 20 May 2015 01:10:20 +0000

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Israeli Theatre artist Nir Paldi on bringing his celebrated and controversial drag musical to Toronto

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Interview

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A Theatre Ad Infinitum Production
Co-presented by Acting Up Stage Company and Why Not Theatre in association with Koffler Centre of the Arts
Written and directed by Nir Paldi

Ballad of the Burning Star first premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013 where it debuted to rave reviews and sold-out audiences. This month, Acting Up Stage Company and Why Not Theatre in association with the Koffler Centre of the Arts are bringing Theatre Ad Infinitum's hit production to The Theatre Centre for its North American premiere.

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Tue, 2015-05-19 - Sun, 2015-05-24

Theatre:

The Theatre Centre

The Wild Party

Annie Hodgins — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 05:00:00 +0000

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Acting Up Stage lets loose with this lively musical exploration of 1920s' excess

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Review

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Music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa
Book by Michael John LaChiusa & George C. Wolfe
Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March
Directed by Robert McQueen
Music direction by Bob Foster
Choreographed by Stephanie Graham

Toronto has been waiting a long time to see Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe’s acclaimed hit musical The Wild Party, a raucous and challenging celebration of jazz age debauchery. Based on Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 poem of the same title, public domain rules have kept the Broadway production off Canadian stages since its debut in 2000.

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Fri, 2015-02-20 - Sun, 2015-03-08

Theatre:

Berkeley Street Theatre

Once On This Island

Annie Hodgins — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:01:45 +0000

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Acting Up Stage Company and Obsidian Theatre revive poignant Broadway musical

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Review

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Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Directed by Nigel Shawn Williams
Music direction by Lily Ling
Choreographed by Marc Kimelman

Twenty-four years after its Broadway premiere, Acting Up Stage Company and Obsidian Theatre Company are breathing new life into the Olivier-Award winning Once On This Island as part of TD’s “Then and Now” Black History Month program. Set in the French Antilles, this musical fairy tale tells a potent tale of young love and divisive social forces.

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Tue, 2014-01-21 - Sun, 2014-02-09

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Daniels Spectrum

Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata

Lauren Gillett — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:52:26 +0000

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Acting Up Stage Company brings online classifieds to life in this delightful new Canadian musical

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Review

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Presented by Acting Up Stage Company in association with Factory Theatre
By Veda Hille & Bill Richardson
Directed by Amiel Gladstone

Looking to buy, sell, barter or rent? Searching for friendship or romance? Since 1995, Craigslist has become the go-to classifieds website for people in cities all over the world. The ubiquitous service is known to almost everyone with an internet connection, but who would have thought it would inspire a musical?

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4.5

Show Dates:

Wed, 2013-01-30 - Sun, 2013-03-03

Theatre:

Factory Theatre