- Kirov ballerina steps out at Cultural Olympiad
- Uliana Lopatkina, principal dancer with the Kirov Ballet, will make her Canadian debut Feb. 10 at the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad
- Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom dies
- Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, considered one of the most versatile opera stars of the postwar period, has died. She was 82.
- Dancer leaps from Stuttgart Ballet to Toronto
- Ballet dancer Jiri Jelinek is trading in Stuttgart, Germany, for Toronto, the National Ballet of Canada announced on Friday.
- Whitehorse playwright offers fresh take on Christmas
- The world premiere of a play by a Yukon playwright opens Thursday in Whitehorse.
- South Pacific en route to Toronto
- South Pacific will play in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in downtown Toronto for three and a half weeks in the summer of 2010.
- Ottawa French theatre adds English surtitles
- A French-language theatre company in Ottawa is making its plays accessible to anglophone theatre-goers.
- Scottsboro Boys musical set for off-Broadway
- A new musical from Cabaret and Chicago collaborators John Kander and Fred Ebb will have its world premiere off-Broadway in the new year, more than five years after the death of lyricist Ebb.
- Space clown drew more news coverage than Afghan mission
- Canada's first space clown can brag that his recent trip into the cosmos generated at least 23 times more international news coverage this year than the Canadian mission in Afghanistan.
- Breslin marks roots of Canadian standup
- Canadian standup comedy was a product of the TV age, says Yuk Yuk's comedy club founder Mark Breslin, who remembers Canada as strong in sketch comedy when he opened his first club in Toronto.
- Topol out of Toronto Fiddler with injury
- Chaim Topol, the actor famous for the role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, has cancelled his appearance in Toronto with the touring show this December because of a shoulder injury.
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