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YPT opened its first production in its own building on December 22, 1977 – an adaptation of Laterna Magika’s The Lost Fairy Tale. This new, permanent home at 165 Front Street East once housed the horses that pulled the Toronto Street Railway Company’s streetcars in the late 19 th century.
History. Rubeš created the Museum Children's Theatre in her Toronto kitchen and opened Alice in Wonderland at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1963. Rubeš staged her first YPT show, The Looking Glass Revue, at the Colonnade Theatre in 1966. [3][4]
YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE (YPT) is Canada’s largest and oldest professional theatre for young people, co-led by Artistic Director Herbie Barnes and Executive Director Camilla Holland. The company produces and presents a full season of theatre and arts education programming, serving approximately 150,000 patrons annually.
For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, whether a performance was for children was rarely clearly delineated. For example, while J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan is now considered the most famous single piece of “theater for children” it is contested as to whether it was specifically intended for children when first performed in 1904.
Wendy Kesselman’s one-act adaptation draws on previously unpublished diary entries to create a more complex, authentic, and compelling realization of the Anne Frank story. Critically, she also centered the Jewishness of those in hiding.
Nov 3, 2020 · The Young People’s Theatre (YPT) is the oldest theatre company dedicated to young people’s theatre in Toronto—and the largest of its kind in Canada. For more than 50 years, it has collaborated with theatre companies in Canada and across the world.
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Sep 27, 2024 - Young People's Theatre (YPT) is the oldest professional theatre company in Toronto and is a national producer and presenter of theatre for young audiences - the first and largest of its kind in Can...
