Manitoba Teens Bring “Deadites” to Life in Musical

It's a groovy time until your friends turn into demons and want you to join them. Young performers at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People are embracing the campiness of a cult classic with their production of Evil Dead the Musical. MTYP's Musical Theatre Company in Evil Dead the Musical: High School Version. CBC/Radio Canada. (2025, April 11). Manitoba Teens ...

A Friend in the Moon

A Friend in the Moon The last show of our 2024/25 season is the world premiere of Billie and the Moon by Wren Brian! We asked Wren about her inspiration for Billie's character, working with MTYP's Creators' Unit, and her own memories from summer camp! Q: Your latest play comes out of MTYP’s Creators’ Units. Can you talk a bit about ...

A Fairy Tale Woven with Métis History

A Fairy Tale Woven with Métis History Next up on MTYP's Mainstage is Blue Beads and Blueberries by Erin Macklem, a Métis re-imagining of an old English folk tale. When a father asks his daughters how much they love him, he feels slighted by the response of his eldest and sends her away. This sets her off on an adventure ...

A Pedal Powered Performance

Life-Cycle The next show on the MTYP Mainstage is a wordless acrobatic performance about identity. Life-Cycle rolls onto the Mainstage from January 17th to 26th. A man, returning home from a long time away, is on a journey to discover who he really is. An old yellow bicycle inspires him to keep moving. Life-Cycle combines acrobatics, puppetry, and digital effects to create ...

Ambitious Amphibians – Musical Brings Humanistic Truths to Lily Pad

Ambitious Amphibians – Musical Brings Humanistic Truths to Lily Pad From the Winnipeg Free Press By Ben Waldman Posted Tuesday, December 10th, 2024 In 1973, during a filmed interview for Temple University’s Profiles in Literature series, writer-illustrator Arnold Lobel was asked whether books should be primarily entertaining or realistic for children. The author didn’t hesitate: “I think they can do ...
Three looks of the Frog in A Year With Frog and Toad

A Year With Frog and Toad designer inspired by nature

Some of Jackie Chau's inventive costumes from A Year With Frog and Toad A Year With Frog and Toad designer inspired by nature Set and costume designer Jackie Chau wants to inspire kids to have a relationship with nature. She imagines the audiences lying on their stomachs surrounded by tall grass on a hot summer day, when watching A Year ...

Frog and Toad Embrace the Simple Joys of Friendship

FROG AND TOAD EMBRACE THE SIMPLE JOYS OF FRIENDSHIP A Year With Frog and Toad is coming back to MTYP's Mainstage for the holiday season! Jennifer Lyon, who plays Toad, chatted with us about the show and why these two characters have remained so comforting and dear to us through the years. What was your first introduction to Arnold Lobel’s ...

LET THE WILD RUMPUS START!

LET THE WILD RUMPUS START! MTYP's Mainstage opens its new season with an interactive adaptation of Maurice Sendak's book Where the Wild Things Are by Presentation House Theatre (Vancouver, BC), originally adapted to the stage by TAG Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. Where the Wild Things Are has a different seating configuration than a usual theatre show. The seating will be ...

The Dan Augusta Scholarship Fund

The Dan Augusta Scholarship Fund The Daniel Augusta Scholarship was established in 2023 to honour the memory of Daniel Augusta, who was a student and employee at MTYP. Dan passed away at the age of 34 in May 2023 and made the thoughtful decision to leave a gift to MTYP through his estate. This donation, along with additional support from ...

Improve your improv at MTYP!

Jesse Miki has just finished leading a summer of hilarious improvised D&D adventures with MTYP’s summer camp participants. We asked for his expertise on what it takes to be a great improv actor and how you can get started at MTYP!