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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 ...

Husband and wife perform together for first time on land

Husband and wife perform together for first time on land Frog and Toad aren’t the only best friends on the set of A Year With Frog and Toad at MTYP this holiday season. Rochelle Kives, in the ensemble, and Ruslan Rusin, the bassist in the band have been together since 2007, when they met each other on the deck of ...

Snail’s favourite holiday memory

Snail’s favourite holiday memory The actor playing Snail, along with a few more characters, in A Year With Frog and Toad wants to share. Growing up, Ari Weinberg loved Chanukah. Here is his favourite memory and recipe! "My favourite holiday tradition is my family Chanukah party. Every year, we congregate the party room at my grandparents’ apartment building. We’re a ...

Meet One of the Stars of MTYP’s Holiday Show

Rainbow Stage's production of "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" featuring the songs of Neil Sedaka Meet One of the Stars of MTYP’s Holiday Show Katie German is wearing many hats this season! Since joining MTYP in 2002, Ms German has worked at eleven different jobs for the company, including Box Office Manager, Theatre School Administrator and Teacher, Teen Events ...

EDUCATORS

2024/2025 SEASON MTYP's new season features six inventive productions for young audiences. Our first play of the year is based on Maurice Sendak’s rambunctious Where The Wild Things Are, followed by Arnold Lobel’s timeless tale of friendship, A Year with Frog and Toad. We then welcome Montreal’s DynamO Théâtre back to Winnipeg with another daringly physical work, Life-Cycle. Erin Macklem’s play Blue Beads & Blueberries transforms an ancient fairy tale ...