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View Full Press Release | ROCKABYE
The Canadian Premiere of ROCKABYE by Joanna Murray-Smith An ARC production January 26 – February 11, 2024 Toronto ON – ARC theatre company today announced its 2024 mainstage production: the Canadian premiere of ROCKABYE by Joanna Murray-Smith, directed by Co-Artistic Producer Rob Kempson. This funny and fast-paced comedy by Australia’s Murray-Smith tackles adoption, fame, hypocrisy, narcissism and media manipulation with cutting style. ROCKABYE will run at Factory Theatre (125 Bathurst St, Toronto) from January 26 to February 11, 2024....
read moreView Full Press Release | MARTYR
The Canadian Premiere of MARTYR by Marius von Mayenburg “A vivid portrait of puberty and zealotry” – THE GUARDIAN Toronto ON – ARC theatre company today announced its first show of 2023: the Canadian premiere of MARTYR by Marius von Mayenburg (translated by Maja Zade), directed by Co-Artistic Producer Rob Kempson. This provocative play by one of Germany’s most prominent playwrights questions the nature of community, and weighs the human systems of family and education against the pull and promise of faith. MARTYR will run at the...
read moreCall for Submissions: Board of Directors
ARC is seeking diverse and eligible individuals who live in the Greater Toronto Area to serve as volunteer Directors for a two-year renewable term. Terms may begin anytime through to October 2022. Click here to view our call for submissions.
read moreComposing DISSIDENTS
Resident Artist and composer Joelysa Pankanea takes you through her creative process in composing for an ARC production. Dissidents…what a beautifully dark piece. The script was sent to me months ago by Chris and I remember the morning I settled down on my couch with a hot cup of coffee to read it through. Now, you have to understand that every time I get a call from ARC with a new show on the horizon my insides squeal. I’m Joelysa, ARC’s resident composer, and I love the work this company produces. Every new script is like a live...
read moreDesigning DISSIDENTS
Creative team members Nick Blais and Jackie Chau take you behind the scenes to explore the design and creation of DISSIDENTS. Nick Blais – Lighting & Immersive Design DISSIDENTS is an exciting challenge for lighting design. The show, and our vision for it, calls for all the extremes in lighting design: It needs to be sparse and complicated, intimate and intense. The script is naturalistic in moments, but it also needs to suggest a complete mental and visual meltdown. We use low-light techniques to assist with projection and moments...
read moreARC in the World
This past season was both our busiest, and most successful ever. Pomona challenged, frightened and entertained audiences last fall. KISS provoked and questioned our assumptions this spring. We garnered six Dora noms. We won a Dora award for Outstanding Direction for Pomona (yay, Chris!). We helped support the development of new and vital theatrical voices through our partnership with the CASA awards. Yup, it’s been a good year. And so we busily lay the groundwork for what comes next. Big things are afoot. Really big. Just you wait. For those...
read moreThey Like Us! They Really Like Us!!
We are a small company with big impact. That’s testament to the incredibly depth of talent in our intrepid band of theatre artists. Prior to this year, the ARC family have earned fourteen Dora nominations and two awards to date. We’re thrilled to announce that this year, we’ve done it again. Coming on the heels of our busiest season to date, we’ve received five (five!!!) Dora nominations for our production of Pomona. This time tomorrow 38th Annual Dora Awards will be underway! Tickets for the after party can be purchased on-site at 10:30 pm....
read moreA Worthy Cause. A Worthwhile Event. A World Of Writers.
Join Us On World Theatre Day Join ARC at a fundraiser for The CASA Award. This ground-breaking initiative is giving voice to vital works of women playwrights in South Africa. The Evening ARC actors and special guests will be reading scenes from plays by South African Women. The evening will be directed by Aviva Armour-Ostroff. Please join us on Monday March 27th—World Theatre Day—at 7:30 PM at the Factory Studio Theatre, 125 Bathurst Street. Tickets are PWYC with a minimum donation of $20. Payable by cash or cheque at the door. As space is...
read moreKISS by Guillermo Calderón
Two couples meet for dinner to take their minds off the war raging around them. An unexpected profession of love, an untimely proposal, and one kiss later, one of the foursome lies dead on the floor. Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón’s newest play breaks open cultural barriers, challenging us to confront the limits of our own understanding, and exposing the suffocating effect of an oppressive, omnipresent regime. For its second year in residency at the Berkeley Street Theatre, Theatre Smash (2015’s Das Ding (The Thing)) joins...
read moreCongratulations!
Proud. Humbled. Amazed. And SOOO excited! Talk about a powerhouse company. Three of our wonderful team have been named as Top 10 Theatre Artists in 2016 by NOW Magazine. Amazing work by amazingly talented people, being justly rewarded! Sincere props to Andre Sills, Bahareh Yaraghi and Deborah Drakeford!!! Congrats to everyone involved! And stay tuned for more from us in 2017. The excitement is just...
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