Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Manitoba Theatre for Young People (MTYP) is a theatre for children and young adults in The Forks area of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. [1] As of 2012, MTYP's annual attendance regularly exceeds 100,000. [2] Within the theatre complex are two performance venues: a 315-seat Main Stage and a smaller hall. [2]
The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre was designed in the Brutalist style by Winnipeg's Number Ten Architectural Group with input from artistic director Eddie Gilbert. With its exposed concrete sculptural form, an informal interior theatre space and a foyer originally conceived to balance large gatherings and smaller intimate groups in the same ...
Manitoba Theatre for Young People; ... Winnipeg Jewish Theatre This page was last edited on 19 September 2021, at 00:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival opened in 1988 by the Manitoba Theatre Centre, Canada's oldest regional theatre, with Larry Desrochers as the first Executive Producer. [1] [6] In its first year, ticket sales were 14,000 across nine days of performances. That figure rose to 26,000 in 1989—year two of the festival.
Prairie Theatre Exchange (PTE) is a professional theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.It is located on the third floor of Portage Place mall in downtown Winnipeg. [1] By the end of the 2016–17 season, PTE had presented 340 plays on its thrust stage over its 44-year history, 149 of which were world premieres, to an annual average attendance of 35,000 people.
MTYP's Theatre School offers Fall, Winter, and Spring sessions, as well as spring break and summer camps, including classes for children as young as three years old. [24] MTYP offers free acting, performing and film training classes to Winnipeg's Indigenous youth between the ages of 12 and 18. [25]
The first jazz concert in Canada was by the touring Creole Band at the Pantages Playhouse Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1914. [26] Winnipeg is most well known for its rock music music scene, which has given birth to such well-known acts as The Guess Who, Crash Test Dummies, Neil Young, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and The Weakerthans.
Leslee Silverman is a Canadian theatre director, recognized for theatre for young audiences.. She founded the Manitoba Theatre for Young People in 1982. Her awards and honours include the Silver Jubilee Commemorative Medal (1992); YWCA Woman of Distinction Award (2001); first recipient, Manitoba Arts Council Award of Distinction (2003); City of Winnipeg Certificate of Appreciation (2003 ...