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The Slaight family's 2015 donation of $ 3 million resulted in the creation of the Ada Slaight Education Centre at YPT. At the time it was the largest non-capital gift received by a Toronto theatre company. In 2022 a gift from the Slaight Family resulted in the renaming of the company's Mainstage to
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YPT operates two performance spaces at 165 Front Street East: the Ada Slaight Stage and the Nathan Cohen Studio. It stages an average of eight productions each year. The current artistic director is Herbie Barnes, and the current executive director is Nancy J. Webster.
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In the spring of 2001, the theatre was renamed Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People after a donation of $ 1.5 million from Kevin Kimsa in honour of his mother, Lorraine. In March 2011, the theatre announced a change back to its original name.
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in 1979, "for its imaginative and sympathetic treatment of a landmark that might otherwise have been destroyed". A $ 13.5 million campaign to expand YPT's complex is currently underway.
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to contain a large main stage (the current day Susan Douglas Rubes Theatre) and a smaller studio (the Nathan Cohen Studio). YPT was given an Award of Merit by the
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Young People Theatre's current home is a renovated 1887 heritage building in Toronto, Ontario. This site was a three-story stable for the horses that pulled
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warehouse. The warehouse sat empty for much of the 20th century before it became the site for YPT. The building was renovated in 1977 by
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and Toronto's Firehall Theatre. The company also toured to schools throughout Ontario, and toured the play
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in the United Kingdom. In 1977, YPT staged its first show in its current location with an adaptation of
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In 2016 YPT was one of a number of theatres offering free tickets to newly arrived Syrian refugees.
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Several stage and screen actors have appeared on the YPT mainstage since the 1970s, including
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Rubeš created the Museum Children's Theatre in her Toronto kitchen and opened
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horse cars in the late 19th century, as well as an electrical plant and a
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Before being located at its current site, YPT staged shows at the
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Ontario's Lieutenant Governor's Award for the Arts, 1998.
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Toronto
Ontario
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43°39′00″N 79°22′08″W / 43.65000°N 79.36889°W / 43.65000; -79.36889
Theatre
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Toronto, Ontario
Susan Douglas Rubeš
Bloor Street
Alice in Wonderland
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