2013 came and went, and what a fantastic year it was. In 2013, we were lucky to see our new home transform in so many amazing ways: walls were knocked down and built, glass was shattered and installed, brick was … Continue reading
Tag Archives: History
New Home Updates – Fall Colours and Shapes
Construction is on track at our new home – the site is abuzz with tradies of various kinds, different types of machinery, materials and tools. We, for a change, decided to just take a stroll around the construction site and … Continue reading
New Home Updates: May-June 2013
Things have been busy at 1115 Queen St. West in the past few weeks, with most of the action happening on the lower level of the building, the future site of our rehearsal hall, the greenroom, dressing rooms and the … Continue reading
A Tea with Bea
We are thrilled to invite you to A Tea with Bea – a new online video series that pay homage to a forgotten Canadian icon and fellow West Queen Wester Beatrice Lillie. Re-introducing Beatrice Lillie from Jacob Hanania on Vimeo. … Continue reading
Councillor Ana Bailão Visits Our New Home
Our City Councillor Ana Bailão dropped by to tour our new home at 1115 Queen West recently – we were excited to share the construction progress with her. Thank you for your enthusiasm and support of this project, Councillor Bailão … Continue reading
New Home Updates: March-April 2013
Here is a quick recap of what has been happening at 1115 Queen West in the past few weeks: 1. We have accumulated quite a collection of safety boots and hard hats to be able to take regular trips to … Continue reading
New Home: History Uncovered
This week we went to take a look at the progress of demolition works at 1115 Queen St. West. With demolition almost complete now, not only it is less difficult to imagine the beautiful spaces that are going to be … Continue reading
New Home: Progress Photos
Our construction team sent a few more photos showing the work progress on our new home – at this stage of the project, the shapes of the new spaces at 1115 Queen West are starting to come through. A snapshot … Continue reading
New Home: What’s Happening?
What’s happening? Major demolition! Here are some progress photos that give a bit of an idea of how the ‘clean-up’ at 1115 Queen West has been going: Original wood wainscot panels have been discovered under the windows on the main … Continue reading
Board Series: Philip Shepherd
When I joined the board at The Theatre Centre some 25 or so years ago, we were located at the Poor Alex on Brunswick, and it looked like we’d have to move. What we really needed was a permanent home. … Continue reading
Board Series: Denis Lefebvre
As a young person growing up Cornwall, ON there wasn’t much opportunity to experience live theatre. We went to the movies and I remember the beautiful Capitol Theatre, which “opened in January 1928 as a class A establishment, exhibiting both … Continue reading
Board Series: Gail Packwood
In 1992, I had only been living in Toronto a couple of years. My apartment was up near York University so a trek downtown seemed like a big expedition – even more so when the destination was a theatre on … Continue reading