ON Stage: Spotlighting the History of Theatre in Ontario

Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery

Exhibit title in a yellow spotlight over a black and white photo of a stage

Setting Ontario’s Theatre Scene in the 1800s

Vaudeville Takes Centre Stage in the Early 1900s

The Show Must Go ON at Mid-Century

A Behind-The-Scenes Look at Ontario Theatre from the Late 1950s to Today

Click for Two white actors in the 1890s. A woman points a gun at a man in a soldier’s uniform.

Actors K. McCarthy (standing at left) and Ernest Morgan (on one knee at right), both posed with one arm raised.

Click for Two white actors on stage. A woman pulls on a rope around a man tied to a chair.

Click for Four actors looking into the distance. Three men of colour wearing fabric coverings, and one white man in a tuxedo.

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