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Former names | MAC, MAC 14 |
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Location | Arts Commons, 220 9th Avenue SE Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2G 5C4 |
Type | Professional theatre company |
Capacity | Max Bell Theatre: 750 |
Opened | 1968; 52 years ago |
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Theatre Calgary, is a theatre company in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, established as a professional company in 1968. It was preceded by Workshop 14, a theatre study group founded in 1944 by Betty Mitchell.[1] Calgary's Betty Mitchell awards are named after her.[2] Theatre Calgary's productions take place mainly in the Max Bell Theatre, located in the multi-venue arts centre Arts Commons in downtown Calgary, Alberta, and through the program Shakespeare by the Bow.[3] Through their shows and programs, Theatre Calgary aims at cultural enrichment and accessibility to the arts and includes a matinee program for city schools as well as paid internships.[3]
This company began as the MAC with the first performance of A Taste of Honey in November 1964.[4] It changed its name to MAC 14 when it merged with Workshop 14, an amateur company established by Betty Mitchell.[4] The name "Theatre Calgary" was established in 1968 by actor and artistic director Christopher Newton and Fred Scot, the then-president of the MAC 14 Theatre Society.[4]
Theatre Calgary's leadership has changed substantially over the years. The current artistic director is Stafford Arima (2017-present)[5] and the current executive director is Jon Jackson (2018-present).[6]
History
[edit]Theatre Calgary is Calgary’s first professional theatre company that grew from grassroots sources. Don Boyes, Eddie Wong and Harry Pinchin opened the Musician's and Actors Club (the MAC)[7] in 1963, in the basement of an abandoned movie house called Isis. This was meant to be a creative space and outlet in which music and theatre artists and performers around Calgary could meet and interact. The gatherings built an artistic community needed to expand this project to include theatre productions as well. The first play offered in the MAC in the upstairs theatre was called A Taste of Honey (1964) .
Later on the MAC became MAC 14, when it merged with another establishment called Workshop 14[8] ; the amateur company established by Betty Mitchell. As 1967 rolled around;playwrite, novelist and poet Kenneth Dyba was elected as the artistic director for a transitional season of semi professional theatre and then the entire company moved from the downtown house named Isis to the much larger and more modern Betty Mitchell Theatre in the Allied Arts Center.
In 1968, Christopher Newton, a young actor from central Canada became the artistic director, and with the help of Fred Scot the president of the MAC 14 Theatre Society they renamed the established company to Theatre Calgary. The newly named company Theatre Calgary joined other regional theatres pioneered by the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre across Canada to provide Canadian cities with professional quality performances. After the rebranding of the company, Theatre Calgary went on to perform in Betty Mitchell Theatre, where contemporary and old school plays have been performed for a couple of decades. In 1985, Theatre Calgary became the resident company of the spectacular Max Bell Theatre in the new Calgary Centre for the Performing Arts ( Arts Commons present day), with their most popular annual production being A Christmas Carol. [9]
There has been a great variety in the management of Theatre Calgary over the years. Under the management of Tom Mcabe[10] from 1997-2014, Theatre Calgary became a powerful mogul in the industry, as well as having seventeen consecutive surplus years in the business. In 2017, management was transferred over to Canadian director Stafford Arima[5] , who would later begin working with his new co-director Jon Jackson[11] as of June 2018.
Artistic Directors
[edit]- Christopher Newton (1968–1971)
- Clarke Rogers (1971–1972)
- Harold G. Baldridge (1972–1978)
- Rick McNair (1978–1984)
- Sharon Pollock (1984–1985)
- Martin Kinch (1985–1991)
- Brian Rintoul (1991–1996)
- James Brewer, Acting Artistic Director (1996–1997)
- Ian Prinsloo (1997–2005)
- Dennis Garnhum (2005–2016)
- Shari Wattling, Interim Artistic Director (2016–2017)
- Stafford Arima (2017–present)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare: June 27 - August 18, 2019
- Iceland - by Nicolas Billon: October 15 - November 2, 2019
- A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens: November 28 - December 28, 2019
- The Louder We Get - by Kent Stained, Akiva Romer-Segal, and Colleen Dauncey: January 28 - February 22, 2020
- Admissions - by Joshua Harmon (playwright): March 10 - April 4, 2020
- Million Dollar Quartet (musical) - by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux: April 21 - May 24, 2020
2015 - 2020 Awards and Nominations
[edit]Year | Production | Category | Result |
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2019 | Billy Elliot the Musical - Marc-Émile Fallu | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Won |
Billy Elliot the Musical - Yukichi Hattori | Outstanding Choreography or Fight Direction | Won | |
The Scarlet Letter - Allision Lynch | Outstanding Sound Design or Composition | Won | |
Billy Elliot the Musical - Caitlynne Medrek | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Comedy | Won | |
Billy Elliot the Musical - Don Horsburgh | Outstanding Musical Direction | Won | |
Billy Elliot the Musical | Outstanding Production of a Musical | Won | |
BOOM X - Nicolas Dostie | Outstanding Projection or Video Design | Nominated | |
Honour Beat - Andy Moro | Outstanding Projection or Video Design | Nominated | |
The Scarlet Letter - Harry Frehner | Outstanding Lighting Design | Nominated | |
The Scarlet Letter - Judith Bowden | Outstanding Set Design | Nominated | |
Billy Elliot the Musical - Cory Sincennes | Outstanding Costume Design | Nominated | |
The Scarlet Letter - Judith Bowden | Outstanding Costume Design | Nominated | |
BOOM X - Rick Miller | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama | Nominated | |
Mary & Max - Kate McMillian | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Comedy or Musical | Nominated | |
Mary & Max - Lauren Elder | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Comedy or Musial | Nominated | |
Mary & Max - Anthony Galde | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Comedy or Musical | Nominated | |
The Scarlet Letter - Heather Pattengale | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama | Nominated | |
The Scarlet Letter - Micheline Chevrier | Outstanding Direction | Nominated | |
2018 | The Humans (play) | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble | Nominated |
Touch Me: Songs for a (Dis)connected Age | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble | Nominated | |
The Secret Garden (musical) - Bonnie Beecher | Outstanding Lighting Design | Nominated | |
Twelfth Night - The Old Trout Puppet Workshop | Outstanding Set Design | Won | |
Twelfth Night - The Old Trout Puppet Workshop | Outstanding Costume Design | Won | |
The Secret Garden - Cory Sincennes | Outstanding Costume Design | Nominated | |
Sisters: The Belles Soeurs Musical - Linda Garneau | Outstanding Choreography or Fight Direction | Nominated | |
Sisters: The Belles Soeurs Musical - David Terriault | Outstanding Musical Direction | Won | |
Touch Me: Songs for a (Dis)conncted Age - Joe Slabe | Outstanding Musical Direction | Nominated | |
The Secret Garden - Don Horsburgh | Outstanding Musical Direction | Nominated | |
Twelfth Night - Anna Cummer | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Comedy or Musical | Nominated | |
Twelfth Night - Christopher Hunt | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Comedy or Musical | Won | |
The Secret Garden - Eric Wigston | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Comedy or Musical | Nominated | |
Twelfth Night - Jillian Keiley | Outstanding Direction | Won | |
The Humans - Vanessa Porteous | Outstanding Direction | Nominated | |
Blow Wind High Water - Stephen Hair | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama | Nominated | |
Sisters: The Belles Soeurs Musical | Outstanding Production of a musical | Won | |
Twelfth Night | Outstanding Production of a Play | Won | |
2017 | A Thousand Splendid Suns - Robert Wierzel | Outstanding Lighting Design | Nominated |
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Ken MacDonald | Outstanding Set Design | Nominated | |
Crazy For You - Cory Sincennes | Outstanding Set Design | Nominated | |
The Audience - Graham Percy | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Won | |
The Audience - Patrick Clark | Outstanding Costume Design | Nominated | |
Crazy For You - Cory Sincennes | Outstanding Costume Design | Nominated | |
A Thousand Splendid Suns - David Coulter | Outstanding Sound Design or Composition | Won | |
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Jake Rodriguez | Outstanding Sound Design or Composition | Nominated | |
BOOM - David Leclerc | Outstanding Projection or Video Design | Nominated | |
Crazy For You - Dayana Tekatch | Outstanding Choreography or Fight Direction | Won | |
Crazy For You - Don Horsburgh | Outstanding Musical Direction | Won | |
Crazy For You - Ayrin Mackie | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Comedy or Musical | Nominated | |
Crazy For You - Andrew MacDonald-Smith | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Comedy or Musical | Won | |
BOOM - Rick Miller | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Comedy or Musical | Nominated | |
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Carey Perloff | Outstanding Direction | Nominated | |
Crazy For You - Dayna Tekatch | Outstanding Direction | Nominated | |
The Audience - Seana McKenna | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama | Nominated | |
Skylight - Dean Paul Gibson | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama | Nominated | |
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Haysam Kadri | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama | Won | |
BOOM | Outstanding Production of a Musical | Nominated | |
Crazy For You | Outstanding Production of a Musical | Won | |
A Thousand Splendid Suns | Outstanding Production of a Play | Won | |
2016 | The Shoplifters - Anna Cummer | Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
The Crucible - Kelly Malcolm | Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated | |
The Crucible - Kevin Lamotte | Outstanding Lighting Design | Nominated | |
The Little Prince (play) - Michael Walton | Outstanding Lighting Design | Nominated | |
The Light in the Piazza (musical) - Christina Poddubiuk | Outstanding Set Design | Nominated | |
The Crucible - Cameron Porteous | Outstanding Set Design | Won | |
Bad Jews - David Sklar | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated | |
The Little Prince - Bretta Gereke | Outstanding Costume Design | Nominated | |
The Crucible - Deitra Kalyn | Outstanding Costume Design | Nominated | |
The Light in the Piazza - Christina Poddubiuk | Outstanding Costume Design | Nominated | |
The Little Prince - Sean Nieuwenhuis | Outstanding Projection or Video Design | Nominated | |
The Little Prince - Lisa Stevens | Outstanding Choreography or Fight Design | Nominated | |
The Little Prince - Elizabeth Baird | Outstanding Musical Direction | Nominated | |
The Light in the Piazza - Jonathan Munro | Outstanding Musical Direction | Nominated | |
The Light in the Piazza - Susan Gilmour | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Comedy or Musical | Nominated | |
Bad Jews - Val Planche | Outstanding Direction | Won | |
The Crucible - R.H. Thomson | Outstanding Direction | Nominated | |
Bad Jews - Bobbi Goddard | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama | Nominated | |
The Crucible - Vanessa Sabourin | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama | Nominated | |
The Crucible - Karl Sine | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama | Won | |
The Light in the Piazza | Outstanding Production of a Musical | Nominated | |
The Little Prince | Outstanding Production of a Musical | Nominated | |
Bad Jews | Outstanding Production of a Play | Nominated | |
The Crucible | Outstanding Production of a Play | Won | |
2015 | Dear Johnny Deere | Outstanding Production of a Musical | Won |
One Man, Two Guvnors | Outstanding Production of a Play | Nominated | |
One Man, Two Guvnors - John C. Dinning | Outstanding Set Design | Nominated | |
One Man, Two Guvnors - Tyrell Crews | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated | |
One Man, Two Guvnors - Stafford Perry | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated | |
One Man, Two Guvnors - Karl Sine | Outstanding Choreography or Fight Direction | Nominated | |
One Man, Two Guvnors - Joe Slabe | Outstanding Musical Direction | Nominated | |
One Man, Two Guvnors - Kevin Corey | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Comedy or Muical | Won | |
One Man, Two Guvnors - Dean Paul Gibson | Outstanding Direction | Nominated | |
Liberation Days - Val Planche | Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated | |
Liberation Days - Cory Sincennes | Outstanding Set Design | Won | |
Liberation Days - Jamie Nesbitt | Outstanding Projection or Video Design | Nominated | |
Liberation Days - David van Belle | Outstanding New Play | Nominated | |
Liberation Days - Lindsey Angell | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama | Nominated | |
Liberation Days - Kelsey Gilker | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama | Nominated | |
The Philadelphia Story (play) - William Schmuck | Outstanding Costume Design | Nominated | |
Th Philadelphia Story - Moya O'Connell | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama | Nominated | |
King Lear - Deitra Kalyn | Outstanding Costume Design | Nominated | |
Dear Johnny Deere - David Archibald | Outstanding Musical Direction | Won |
See also
[edit]- Alberta Theatre Projects
- Arts Commons
- Betty Award
- Betty Mitchell
- Theatre Calgary production history
- Theatre of Canada
References
[edit]- ^ Sanderson, Kay (1999). 200 Remarkable Alberta Women. Calgary: Famous Five Foundation. p. 56.
- ^ "Betty Mitchell (1896-1976)". Betty Mitchell Awards. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ a b Schlesinger, Joel (2020). "Focus on Leadership: Theatre Calgary enriches lives through arts". Calgary Economic Development. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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(help) - ^ a b Lemon, Käthe (2018). "Stafford Arima's Theatre Calgary". Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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(help) - ^ "Archives Finding Aids". Glenbow. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "Calgary's Alliance of Community Theatres Member Directory". Calgary Acts. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "Max Bell Theatre". Arts Commons. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ Hunt, Stephen (2014). "Tom McCabe leaving Theatre Calgary". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
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(help) - ^ Theatre Alberta Staff (2018). "News(Calgary): Theatre Calgary Announces Jon Jackson as New Executive Director". Theatre Alberta. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
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(help) - ^ "The Curtain is Rising on Another Season of Theatre Calgary". Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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