by Rod Urquhart | Dec 20, 2020 | News
Newmarket Stage Company Newmarket has a very intriguing theatre history, especially in the 1970s and early 1980s, when two community theatre groups existed in town – the Newmarket Theatre Centre and the Old Town Hall Players (formed 1981). In earlier installments, I...
by Rod Urquhart | Dec 8, 2020 | News
Newmarket, thanks to Newmarket Theatre Centre members Paul Aspland, Ray Burdon Fraser Milne and others, just about had a community theatre built many years ago on the Cane Parkway …. A dream of the NTC that just never came into fruition. Read on in this interesting...
by Rod Urquhart | Dec 4, 2020 | News
Newmarket has a very intriguing theatre history, especially in the 1970s and early 1980s, when two community theatre groups existed in town – the Newmarket Theatre Centre and the Old Town Hall Players (formed 1981). The Newmarket Theatre Centre was led by Artistic...
by Rod Urquhart | Aug 20, 2020 | News
Donation to the Rotary Club of Newmarket 2017Following the very successful Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays in 2017, President John Dowson and Board member Doris Keppler of The Very Useful Theatre Company made a donation to the Rotary Club of...
by Rod Urquhart | Aug 20, 2020 | News
Festival Wrap-up 2019 And the ‘Ross’ goes to at the Newmarket International Festival of One Act PlaysBy Rod Urquhart Bruce Williamson of Aurora won the ‘Ross’ Award for Best Production by a Director in the 2019 edition of the Third Annual York Region Festival of One...
by John Dowson | Aug 19, 2020 | News
Warren has watched the Polar Bear in New York’s Central Park Zoo pace back and forth for quite some time and has decided to break him out of his cage. Warren’s plan is foolproof…he will buy the Bear some fancy duds so no one will recognize him, then...
