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Auditions

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Training

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Festivals

InspiraTO Theatre Festival
Toronto
May 29 to June 7

Factory Wired 14
Factory Theatre
Toronto
May 30 to June 15

Potluck Festival
fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company
Toronto
June 8

Magnetic North Theatre Festival
Halifax / Darmouth NS
June 19 to 29

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Fringe

London Fringe Festival
June 3 to 14

Ottawa Fringe Festival
June 19 to 29

Toronto Fringe Festival
July 2 to 13

Hamilton Fringe Festival
July 17 to 27

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Why Theatre?

"Why Theatre?" is a video that tells the story of your connection to theatre. The inspiration behind the video project is to encourage a broader audience to engage with theatre in its many forms by sharing compelling images and stories about the power and brilliance of theatre.

Watch Theatre Ontario's Why Theatre? video

A Summer Experience for Youth with Theatre Ontario

We are seeking an Education Assistant to assist with the preparation of our annual adult Summer Theatre Intensive and to support our membership, marketing, and fundraising departments.

In order to apply you must be currently enrolled in a secondary or post-secondary institution, or within 6 months of graduation.

Apply for our "Education Assistant" Summer Experience position

Thought-Provoking, Challenging, and Artistic Theatre at Festival 2014

Peterborough Theatre Guild's The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Theatre Ontario Festival 2014 was described by one frequent attendee as "the most solid, thought-provoking, challenging, and artistic Theatre Ontario Festivals I've ever been to."

Congratulations to Peterborough Theatre Guild, whose production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh was awarded the Elsie as Outstanding Production at Theatre Ontario Festival 2014 in Sarnia.

Find out all of the Theatre Ontario Festival 2014 award nominees and recipients

Read the Festival 2014 blog posts about the shows, adjudications, and workshops

Read the Festival 2014 tweets

Ken Stephen, a long-time supporter and former Board member also wrote about the Festival on his blog Large Stage Live!

And save-the-date for Theatre Ontario 2015, May 13 to 17 in Oshawa, co-hosted by Theatre Ontario, Oshawa Little Theatre, and the Association of Community Theatres--Central Ontario.

Festival 2015 Invitation

Thinking of producing a show or starting a theatre company?

If you want to do a show but have never produced professionally before, and if you want to know what questions to ask first, this workshop is for you!

Join us on June 9 at 3:00pm in Toronto for "Self-Producing: The Basics", a practical seminar facilitated by Mairin Smit, Program Coordinator with Guest Producer Scott Dermody.

Mairin Smit Scott Dermody

Connect with community at Culture Days

Canada's national celebration of arts and culture takes place September 26 to 28, and you can be a part of it! All theatre artists - organizations, collectives, individuals - professional or community - are invited to participate.

Join us on June 16 at 7:30pm for a free webinar, co-hosted by Ontario Culture Days and Theatre Ontario to find out how you can participate.

Register for our Culture Days Information Webinar

"The Best Way I Can Think of Spending My Summer Vacation"

Our Summer Theatre Intensive is open to anyone 19 and older who is passionate about theatre and learning. With courses for actors and directors, there is something for all skill and experience levels.

Murray Tilson of Timmins is coming back this year for "Reviewing your Revue: Creating a Musical Theatre Performance" and wrote about his anticipation for Theatre Ontario's Summer Theatre Intensive on our blog

We're also excited to welcome Dave Carley and Marcia Johnson as our Playwrights-in-Person at our Summer Theatre Intensive. Meet Dave and Marcia

Register for the Theatre Ontario Summer Theatre Intensive

Discovering Great Truths at The Shaw

Cabaret at The Shaw Festival

Alistair Newton is one of this year's Neil Munro Intern Directors at the Shaw Festival - one of the most prestigious and vigorously sought-after director development and showcase opportunities for emerging directors in Canada.

Read Alistair's experiences as an Intern Director at the Shaw Festival on our blog

Apply for the 2015 Intern Directors Project

Engaging Youth at Provincial Youth Forum

We held our first ever Provincial Youth Forum in May, bringing together youth from around the province.

Elizabeth Stuart-Morris, one of the participants, writes about the Provincial Youth Forum on our blog

Space to Create: Reflections on SPARC

Rebecca Ballarin and Madeline Smith at SPARC

We were proud to be part of SPARC, the Symposium for Performing Arts in Rural Communities. We hosted a panel on "Producing Quality Theatre in a Rural Setting" and two members of our Youth Advisory Committee (Rebecca Ballarin and Madeline Smith, pictured) were part of the Youth Caucus.

Madeline Smith and Jack Brezina both wrote about their experience at the SPARC conference on the Theatre Ontario Blog

Congratulations to the Spring 2014 Youth Theatre Training Program Grant Recipients

We are excited to announce the latest recipients of training grants through Theatre Ontario's Youth Theatre Training Program (YTTP). $25,310 was awarded in total among the recipients.

Find out about the Spring 2014 Theatre Ontario YTTP funded projects

This program is funded by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

Profiling Projects Funded by the Professional Theatre Training Program

Eight individuals were chosen as recipients of Theatre Ontario's Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP) grants during our Spring 2014 application round. The grants are funded by the Ontario Arts Council.

Each month, we want to share some of these projects with you. This month features Madeleine Donohue (training in Producing and General Management with Monica Esteves and Eric Goldstein at Crow's Theatre in Toronto) and Kat Horzempa (training in General Management and Tour Coordination with Natalie Ackers at Roseneath Theatre in Toronto.)

Learn about these PTTP projects on the Theatre Ontario Blog

Save-the-Date for Adjudicators Symposium

Our Adjudicators Symposium is an opportunity for emerging and established adjudicators, as well as the theatres and organizations that hire them, to benefit from professional development, networking, and information exchange, to discuss training needs and opportunities, and to develop methodologies for the future.

This year's Theatre Ontario Adjudicators Symposium will be on September 13.

Ontario Off Stage

In "Ontario Off Stage" on our blog, we curate theatre conversations and news from around the province and beyond. Highlights from last month include:

From May 30

Does London need a performing arts centre?
The 14th Annual World Festival of Children's Theatre is coming to Canada
From CBC's Q: "As much as theatre needs you, you need it."

From May 23

Has the conversation about "what's wrong with Canadian theatre" confused the ideas of "populism" and "middle of the road"?
Scarcity thinking leads us to "tearing things down" when we really need to be building them up
Do artists say "thank you" enough?
Lessons in arts leadership from puppetry
"If you never see plays, it's easy to forget how different they are from absolutely everything else, no matter who is in them"

From May 9

Philip Akin writes on the diversity gap between what we see on our stages - including our Next Generation Showcase - and who lives in our communities, and challenges organizations to lead, follow, or get out of the way
In praise of the proscenium stage
"Old and bold": There's no age limit on emerging artists

From May 2

"How Canadian theatre is killing itself Part 2 - storytelling, entertainment, and a dangerous redefinition of theatre"
Exploring a business model: Franchising theatre and the implications on marketing

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Brandon Moore

Communications Coordinator, Theatre Ontario

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We acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1,681 individual artists and 1,125 organizations in 216 communities across Ontario for a total of $52.8 million.