Tag: Grand Theatre
Heartwarming musical delivers holiday joy on Grand Theatre stage
Londonâs Grand Theatre is alive with the sound of a beloved musical production kicking off the holiday season.
PHOTOS: Grand Theatre raises curtain on the Sound of Music
The Sound of Music was set to open on Tuesday night as the 2024 holiday production at London’s Grand Theatre, with a run scheduled to last until Dec. 29.
LFP ARCHIVES: A ghostly Grand Theatre legend
In the spirit of the Halloween season, we’re reflecting on what’s arguably London’s most notorious ghostly legend â that the Grand Theatre is haunted by its original owner, Ambrose Small. This story was first published in the Oct. 30, 2009 editions of The London Free Press The ghostly gossip surrounding the Grand Theatre isn’t going […]
Q+A: Victor Garber on coming home, embracing film festival honour
London-raised actor Victor Garber, 75, is being honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Forest City Film Festival this weekend, with screenings of two of his films, Legally Blonde and Titanic, and a brunch celebrating his Hollywood career. He spoke with LFP reporter Beatriz Baleeiro about coming home and embracing the honour. Q: How […]
Swifties left out of sold-out Toronto shows can still party in London
Ticketed dance and video parties are planned in London in the lead-up to mega pop-star Taylor Swift’s six-show Toronto run next month.
Shakespeare meets the Beatles in Grand Theatre comedy mashup
A mashup of two very different cultural icons separated by hundreds of years â William Shakespeare and the Beatles â kicks off the Grand Theatre’s season. Money canât buy love, but it can get tickets to a musical adaptation of As You Like It, where colourful flower power meets the Shakespeare comedy. On the theatre’s […]
Old downtown storefront gets new life along Dundas Place
A Toronto-area entrepreneur is breathing new life into the core fixture, planning a liquidation store called Almost Free opening this fall.
London plans to hike hotel tax to keep pace with other cities
Politicians have endorsed hiking London’s hotel tax, even if some hotel and business owners don’t agree with it. Councillors voted 13-1 at a meeting Tuesday of the strategic priorities and policy committee in favour of a motion raising the municipal accommodation tax to five per cent from four. The tax is charged on hotel, motel […]
London Fringe: Five days, 18 performers, 100-plus shows
The last major event in the city’s summertime calendar, London Fringe is set for its biggest collection of theatrical shows since before the COVID-19 pandemic struck four years ago, officials say. The five-day event, running from Aug. 13 to Aug. 17, will include more than 100 shows at six different venues across the city â […]
Actor Victor Garber wins hometown film festival lifetime achievement award
A London-born actor whose credits span six decades is set to be honoured by a hometown film festival