Toronto, Ontario, CANADA/Belgrade, SERBIA - You know we love long distance collaboration here, and this is such a beautiful example! Sent to us by Toronto-based director and creative producer on the this project, Stefan Dzeparoski, The Hopscotch is a beautiful meditation on love during these socially distant times. See for yourself!

Toronto, CANADA - If you’re looking for something warm and gently uplifting, here it is: a behind the scenes look at the musical “Selah’s Song,” an original folk musical that was set to tour across Ontario to British Columbia. This submission gives you a taste of the show’s sweet music and a chance to hear from its creators.

Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - We love new work, and we are so excited that playwright Rebecca Bauer submitted this piece! This video features Rebecca and actor Jacob Sheffield performing an excerpt from Inside my Head, a new play that was developed through Expect Theatre’s Beats & Intentions Unit. Unfortunately the final presentation of this unit was cancelled due to social distancing.

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In the post below, you will see tons of AMAZING content from the University of York Theatre Department. Submitted to us by Shawn Kerwin, a designer, faculty advisor and associate professor of Design at York University, everything featured in this post is created by students in the theatre department. Featured below is a gallery of images from the final dress rehearsal of ELIZABETH REX, the final production of Theatre@York’s 2019-2020 season, and a collection of three productions (full videos INCLUDED!) created in the Devised Theatre Program as part of the 2020 Devised Theatre Festival. ENJOY AND MARVEL! These are fantastic!

London/Toronto, CANADA - Folks all over were eagerly anticipating the opening of Grow (Book-Matt Murray; Music-Colleen Dauncey; Lyrics-Akiva Romer Segal) at the Grand Theatre in London, ON. This was a show with BUZZ, having been developed at the prestigious Canadian Music Theatre Project and the Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals, and it sadly had to be postponed. Thats why we were so thrilled when the team made this video for The Social Distancing Festival (video credit- Fred Miller III). Check out The One I Choose, sung by composer Colleen Dauncey.

Toronto, CANADA - These Toronto creators and performers are staying strong amidst a barrage of disappointing and discouraging news!

Toronto, CANADA - From the submission: FOUR SISTERS is a podcast written by Susanna Fournier, a sonic rendering of play that showed last year at the Theatre Centre as part of the Luminato Festival. It's a timely piece, and one just released, by an ascendant feminist voice in Toronto's independent theatre community.

Toronto, ON - This video, entitled “The Balladeer’s Speech”, is an excerpt from the disrupted [and disruptive] play THE SLAUGHTER BROTHERS DIME CIRCUS, which was to open at The Grand Canyon Theatre in Toronto on March 25.

BC, CANADA - This submission, written by UBC grad and Jessie Award-winning playwright Leisl Lafferty, is an excerpt from one of the Grad readings that was supposed to premiere at this year’s Brave New Rites Festival, March 17-22 in Vancouver.