In January, the Storefront Theatre was evicted from a former drugstore at 955 Bloor St. W., where it had become an indie theatre hub over its four years of operation. The conversation around who gets to live and work in downtown Toronto and for how much dominates our collective consciousness, which is something Toronto’s indie theatre community knows all too well. The inaugural Assembly Theatre production, Miss by Michael Ross Albert (who earned a Dora nomination for last year’s Tough Jews, produced by the Storefront Theatre), will begin previews on Sept. 14, directed by Lafontaine. The Assembly Theatre has been about 10 years in the making, Lafontaine said, since Unit 102 opened its first space in a live/work loft on Noble St. (in unit 102, naturally). Under her new title as artistic director of the Assembly Theatre, she’ll appear in the Assembly’s second production, the world premiere of George F. Walker’s The Chance in October, produced by Leroy Street Theatre.

Source: thestar September 05, 2017 20:03 UTC