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(UPDATED) Canada's Oldest Black Theatre Company Returns July 29 With a One-Night-Only Presentation  Montreal – July 7, 2021: We’re back! Black Theatre Workshop in a continued partnership with National Arts Centre English Theatre kicks off the summer with an outdoor...

Today we mourn and honour the lives and great loss of the Indigenous children who never returned to their homes across Kanata.   Another 182 human remains were found at the site of a former residential school that housed children taken from their families....

Black Theatre Workshop (BTW), Native Earth Performing Arts (NEPA), and the Thousand Islands Playhouse (TIP) announce Creative Catalysts, a pioneering partnership and vital program designed to support works of emerging Indigenous and Black playwrights. “BTW is thrilled...

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts is proud to be partnering with Black Theatre Workshop (BTW) on Liberation’s Radiance, a light installation by BTW’s Artist in Residence, Lighting Designer Tim Rodrigues, to commemorate Black...

Black Theatre Workshop Honours Eddy Toussaint With Prestigious Dr. Martin Luther King Achievement Award. The longest running Black theatre company in Canada invites all audiences to attend its most important annual fundraiser. Vision_PressRelease_20Jan2021

On Wednesday, December 9, National Arts Centre English Theatre, in partnership with Black Theatre Workshop, announced an unprecedented shared curation model for the national stage. Beginning in the 2021–22 season, NAC English Theatre has committed to the annual...

Canada's Longest-Running Black Theatre Company Celebrates Landmark 50th Anniversary! 50th Season Programming, New Team Members, and a Half Century of Black Theatre in Canada! Black Theatre Workshop (BTW), the longest running Black theatre company in Canada, has...

As the performing arts sector continues to face unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Arts Centre has responded with Grand Acts of Theatre, an initiative to bring Canadian artists and audiences together. Eleven of Canada’s most innovative...

A message from our Artistic Director: For the past few weeks, we have been keeping an eye on the evolution of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. In light of the current situation, we have had to make some very difficult decisions. The health and safety of our patrons,...

The past several days have been incredibly difficult. There have been so many extreme emotions to process – sadness, hurt, frustration, disgust, rage – around the blatant acts of racism we have all been witness to recently. For many of us this isn’t new. We experience...