Biography of writer Al Pittman

Amateur Theatre Tradition: Theatre companies, concerts, carnivals, festivals, and the Arts and Culture Centre.

About the theatre company Artistic Fraud, founded in 1994.

About the theatre company CODCO and it's style and development

Process lies at the heart of collective creation as a company of actors researches, improvises and creates a script.

Dance in Newfoundland and Labrador

First Light Productions took underground theatre very seriously. Its first production combined the culture, history and environment of Bell Island

Folk dance: a unique part of the cultural and social history of the province

Grace Butt (nee Hue), born in 1909 in Brigus, Newfoundland, was a founding member of the St. John's Players, founded in St. John's in 1937.

Biography of war verteran and writer John Murray Anderson

A sketch of the life of John Murray Anderson (1886-1954), Broadway producer and Hollywood director.

Kittiwake Dance Theatre was founded in March of 1987 by Linda Rimsay. It developed from the Newfoundland Dance Theatre, which had formed in the 1970s.

In early October of 1951, eleven actors sailed from Liverpool on HMS <em>Nova Scotia</em> and arrived in Newfoundland to form one of the first professional, resident theatre companies in St. John's. Rehearsing on the ship as they crossed the Atlantic, the London Theatre Company would go on to do over 107 productions between 1951 and 1957 - becoming the first weekly, professional, repertory theatre company in Canada.

biography of playwright Michael Cook

Information about the Mummers Troupe theatre collective, founded in 1972 by Chris Brookes and Lynn Lunde

The Newfoundland Travelling Theatre Company (NTTC) was formed in early 1972 by David Weiser and Dudley Cox.

Among the earliest records of dance classes in Newfoundland and Labrador are newspaper advertisements for social dance classes in St. John's.

Performance of original dramatic material has a long history often containing music, recitation and original drama

For most, the phrase Newfoundland music suggests a spirited sound descended from the ancient folk traditions of England and Ireland.

About the creation of professional theatre companies originating from Newfoundland and Labrador