I’ve never placed a sports bet in my life but, ask me about Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Collective’s annual fundraiser where Toronto indie companies go head to head reading the first folio while getting progressively drunker, and I turn into Benny Southstreet. The odds-on favourite has to be Ale House‘s Joshua Stodart based on past performance and company […]
2016 was an amazing year of TV- one of the most eclectic, challenging, entertaining seasons in history with too many brilliant shows to count. We tried to watch as many of them as possible to accurately capture what stood out this year. We obviously failed- it’s literally impossible to watch everything- but we think this […]
2016 was a pretty decent year in movies, marked by some really exceptional performances and a couple scripts for the ages. In choosing our winners, we tried to strike a balance between the inarguable and the under-appreciated, differing from the Oscars wherever possible. The result is a list that contains a couple massive hits and […]
On April 10th, over 300 members of the Toronto theatre community gathered at The Great Hall on Queen Street West to look back at the productions that defined 2016 and celebrate the incredible work of hundreds of artists nominated for MyTheatre Awards this year. The evening’s hosts The Templeton Philharmonic (winners of the 2015 […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2016 MyTheatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. It only played six performances but Haus of Casati’s lightning-quick site-specific production of Mike Bartlett’s British domestic drama My Child made a huge impact on everyone who saw it (the small cafe where they performed didn’t […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2016 MyTheatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Outstanding New Work nominee How We Are by Polly Phokeev, co-developed with Mikaela Davies, is one of the most complex and moving plays I’ve ever seen. Directed by Davies and staged in a site-specific workshop production […]
\Before we announce the winners of the 2016 MyTheatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Not including ensemble nominations (even this year’s for Father Comes Home From the Wars), Soulpepper’s Gregory Prest has raked up five MyTheatre Award nominations thus far, including acting nods in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2016. He […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2016 MyTheatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Dylan Trowbridge has been one of the most reliably excellent actors on both Canadian stages and screens for years, standing out in roles with Stratford, Shaw and Canadian Stage. But it wasn’t until he stepped onto […]