STUDENT REVIEW OF A CHARLIE BROWN DOUBLE BILL

STUDENT REVIEW OF A CHARLIE BROWN DOUBLE BILL The first part was just beautiful! The music, the singing! The acting was extraordinary! The roles of the actors were so well chosen! Their voices immersed me in the experience,  in a great way! Also, the set was so playful, it was like it was an actual kids school! The sound effects ...

THE PLAYFULNESS OF TODD PARR

THE PLAYFULNESS OF TODD PARR Jim Morrow, Managing Artistic Director of Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia shared his thoughts with TPAC Teaching Artist, Beth Anne Musiker, on the upcoming performance of It’s Okay to Be Different – Stories by Todd Parr, for which he serves as both Director and Production Designer. This Q&A was originally published in Tennessee Performing Arts ...

LOTS TO LEARN FROM CHARLIE BROWN

LOTS TO LEARN FROM CHARLIE BROWN On opening night of MTYP’s holiday production of A Charlie Brown Double Bill, Ben Ridd, who plays the titular role, has the audience firmly on their side, even as they choose the saddest tree in the lot. “My job is to have the whole audience supporting Charlie. It’s scary and amazing to experience at ...

GOOD GRIEF! A Q&A WITH THE CAST OF CHARLIE BROWN

GOOD GRIEF! A Q&A WITH THE CAST OF CHARLIE BROWN Almost everyone has memories from their childhood of Charlie Brown. We remember the whole family gathering around the TV to watch the latest Charlie Brown special. Or how much we laughed when Lucy yanked the football away for the umpteenth time. We asked five of the Peanuts gang to share ...

MTYP AGM CELEBRATED YEAR OF FIRSTS

MTYP AGM CELEBRATED YEAR OF FIRSTS Manitoba Theatre for Young People (MTYP) held our Annual General Meeting on November 7, celebrating a number of firsts during the 2021-2022 Mainstage season, welcoming back audiences and community partners to our venue, and achieving successes within our educational programs. MTYP is the second largest theatre company in Canada to produce and present work ...

PLAYING CHARLIE BROWN’S BEST FRIEND

Nelson Bettancourt (right) with Peter Fernandes in A Charlie Brown Double Bil (MTYP, 2017) PLAYING CHARLIE BROWN’S BEST FRIEND Kris Cahatol’s onstage professional debut has been three years coming. The young Filipino actor was to have made his professional debut in A Winter’s Tale for Shakespeare in the Ruins. But the show moved to digital because of the pandemic, and ...

WHY CRANKED MATTERS RIGHT NOW

WHY CRANKED MATTERS RIGHT NOW Rachel Aberle is the new Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Green Thumb Theatre Company. Green Thumb’s CRANKED: The ReMix is next on MTYP’s mainstage, as well as touring to Manitoba high schools. In this interview, Rachel talks about why this play has never been more relevant. This is Green Thumb’s first touring show, since the beginning of the ...

GETTING REAL WITH VELVETEEN RABBIT PLAYWRIGHT PURNI MORELL

GETTING REAL WITH VELVETEEN RABBIT PLAYWRIGHT PURNI MORELL Purni Morell, the creator of MTYP’s season opening play The Velveteen Rabbit, is a freelance theatre director, writer and translator. She was Artistic Director of Unicorn Theatre in the United Kingdom from 2011 to 2018 and now lives in Antwerp, Belgium. She is as excited as we are to open MTYP’s 2022/23 ...
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CATCHING UP WITH NATALIE

Former MTYP student Natalie Stefanson returned to MTYP to teach summer camps in 2022 CATCHING UP WITH NATALIE Natalie Stefanson is a professional actress who is currently studying theatre at York University and specializing in Devised Theatre. Natalie is back in Winnipeg this summer to teach at MTYP’s Summer Camps. Previously, she was an MTYP student while in high school, ...

GO WILD THIS SUMMER

GO WILD THIS SUMMER Do the young people in your life love nature and the arts? MTYP is pleased to once again partner with FortWhyte Alive to offer two unique camps this summer. “If you love theatre and nature, then this is the camp for you,” says Heather Russell-Smith, one of the camp coordinators. No previous experience in theatre is ...