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Having served as associate artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, Stowell was previously at the helm of major dance companies in Oregon and California, As a young dance student in Seattle, Christopher Stowell awaited eagerly for visits from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, enamoured by its eclectic performances. Now, he gets to lead the prestigious [...]

Byline: J. KELLY NESTRUCK; Staff From the outside, the Stratford Festival's 2025 season looks like a battle royale between the world's most famous red-headed orphans. Artistic director Antoni Cimolino has [...]

Byline: J. KELLY NESTRUCK; Staff The Luminato Festival Toronto has found its fifth artistic director in a familiar place. Olivia Ansell, current director of the Sydney Festival, will become the [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS Hot Docs organizers say artistic director Shane Smith plans to leave the organization after eight years. The Toronto documentary film festival announced Smith's exit while recognizing [...]

Byline: SALMAAN FAROOQUI; Staff Naomi Campbell, the artistic director of Toronto's Luminato Festival, will be stepping down after the 2023 iteration of the event. She has spent more than 10 [...]

THE BUZZ Toronto -- Peter Hinton will step down as artistic director of the English theatre at the National Arts Centre in August after seven seasons at its head. Since [...]

THE BUZZ Toronto -- Renowned stage and artistic director Don Shipley has been appointed the creative director for arts, culture and festivals for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games. Shipley's [...]

THE BUZZ Toronto -- Luminato's Chris Lorway will be stepping down as artistic director by the time the fifth anniversary of the multidisciplinary Toronto festival kicks off in June, possibly [...]

THE BUZZ / BREAKING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Toronto -- After 23 years at the helm of the Toronto Jazz Festival, Jim Galloway is stepping down as artistic director, relinquishing his post [...]

THE BUZZ / BREAKING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Toronto -- Brendan Healy is the new artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times, the Toronto-based theatre's board of directors announced yesterday. An associate [...]

Byline: Fiona Morrow Vancouver -- Vanessa Porteous will become artistic director of Alberta Theatre Projects in May. She takes over the role from departing artistic director Bob White, who will [...]

Byline: AP New York -- The founding director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a New York exhibition and art performance space that helped launch the careers of such artists as [...]

Byline: J. Kelly Nestruck Stratford, Ont. -- The Stratford Shakespeare Festival seems to be stabilizing after its shake-up this spring, when two of the three artistic directors resigned, leaving Des [...]

Byline: Staff Toronto -- Jennifer Harkness, executive director of the Banff World Television Festival for the past three years, is leaving her post to move to New York with her [...]

Byline: Michael Posner Toronto -- Robert Falls and Jennifer Tarver will direct Brian Dennehy in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's production of O'Neill's Hughie and Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. Falls, who [...]

Byline: MICHAEL POSNER Des McAnuff is still in shock. The week's extraordinary backstage drama at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival - the sudden resignation of his two co-artistic directors, Marti Maraden [...]

Byline: MICHAEL POSNER In a startling development - only weeks before the launch of a new season - two co-artistic directors of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival submitted their resignations yesterday, [...]

Byline: MICHAEL POSNER If buzz is any criterion, it promises to be an exciting year for theatre in Canada. At Stratford, there's eager anticipation about what the new creative team [...]

Byline: Marsha Lederman Vancouver -- Victoria's Belfry Theatre has named Michael Shamata as its new artistic director. The Toronto-based director and writer was chosen from a field of 42 candidates [...]

Byline: ROD MICKLEBURGH AND MARSHA LEDERMAN VANCOUVER -- David Atkins, the creative guru responsible for the spectacular opening and closing ceremonies at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, is expected to [...]

Byline: MICHAEL POSNER Andy McKim has been appointed the new artistic director of Theatre Passe Muraille, The Globe and Mail has learned. He succeeds Layne Coleman, who is a stepping [...]

Byline: AP Rome -- Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti gave up the job of artistic director at the Turin Film Festival, just two days after he was called to lead the [...]

Byline: Michael Posner Toronto -- Chris Abraham, associate artist at Toronto's Necessary Angel Theatre Company and head of his own production company, Go Chicken Go, has signed on as artistic [...]

Byline: Alexandra Gill Vancouver -- Vancouver's busiest bandleader is sinking his chops into a new Olympic gig. Robert Kerr, executive director and co-founder of British Columbia's Coastal Jazz & Blues [...]

After a worldwide search for new artistic directors, the Stratford Festival has stayed close to home, picking three artists with Stratford credentials and Canadian roots for the job. The festival [...]

Byline: Staff and Los Angeles Times Toronto -- Artistic director Des McAnuff will not renew his contract at the La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, Calif., when it expires next [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON Ontario's Stratford Festival is shaking up its leadership structure and will name a team of artistic directors rather than a single one -- a scheme that failed [...]

Byline: JAMES ADAMS One of Canada's most important visual-arts centres gets a new director later this summer, and he's coming all the way from New Zealand. Sources close to The [...]

Byline: Matthew Hays Montreal -- Montreal's film-festival war has claimed another casualty. Claude Chamberlan, founder and director of the 33-year-old Festival du Nouveau Cinema, has left the festival rather abruptly. [...]

Toronto -- Canada's most successful theatrical artistic director, Richard Monette, announced yesterday that he'll be retiring as the head of the Stratford Festival of Canada, but staying on 'at least [...]