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Aiming for balance: Toronto Workshop Productions artistic director Robert Rooney says unless a script has some social responsibility, there doesn't seem much point to it
Aiming for balance: Toronto Workshop Productions artistic director Robert Rooney says unless a script has some social responsibility, there doesn't seem much point to it

Aiming for balance: Toronto Workshop Productions artistic director Robert Rooney says unless a script has some social responsibility, there doesn't seem much point to it

Date3/27/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Aiming for balance: Toronto Workshop Productions artistic director Robert Rooney says unless a script has some social responsibility, there doesn't seem much point to it.
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Preparing the script for their production of Mark Twain's Letters From the Earth, George Luscombe (left) and writer Jack Winter are keeping busy at Toronto Workshop Productions' theatre
Preparing the script for their production of Mark Twain's Letters From the Earth, George Luscombe (left) and writer Jack Winter are keeping busy at Toronto Workshop Productions' theatre
4/19/1973
June Faulkner General Manager, George Luscombe, artistic director Toronto Workshop Productions
June Faulkner General Manager, George Luscombe, artistic director Toronto Workshop Productions
8/22/1977
Robin Phillips, The director of the Stratford Festival is probably the best known contender for the job of artistic director of Toronto Arts Productions
Robin Phillips, The director of the Stratford Festival is probably the best known contender for the job of artistic director of Toronto Arts Productions
2/9/1977
Co-star with Philip Akin in Toronto Workshop Productions' winning production of South African Athol Fugard's The Island, Henry Gomez gives the play it(...)
Co-star with Philip Akin in Toronto Workshop Productions' winning production of South African Athol Fugard's The Island, Henry Gomez gives the play it(...)
3/7/1978
Provocateur Athol Fugard is in town for production of his play The Island at Toronto Workshop Productions
Provocateur Athol Fugard is in town for production of his play The Island at Toronto Workshop Productions
2/27/1978
Shaw Festival rolls into town. The Shaw Festival's first Toronto season opens Oct. 29 at Toronto Workshop Productions, 12 Alexander St., with the Nort(...)
Shaw Festival rolls into town. The Shaw Festival's first Toronto season opens Oct. 29 at Toronto Workshop Productions, 12 Alexander St., with the Nort(...)
10/21/1986
George Luscombe: He founded Toronto Workshop Productions in a basement in 1959.
George Luscombe: He founded Toronto Workshop Productions in a basement in 1959.
5/6/1985
George Luscombe rehearses members of Toronto Workshop Productions before they set off for a nine-week tour that will take them to theatres in England, Wales, and Netherlands and Belgium
George Luscombe rehearses members of Toronto Workshop Productions before they set off for a nine-week tour that will take them to theatres in England, Wales, and Netherlands and Belgium
4/28/1976
Len Peterson at work on the set of his new play, Women in the Attic, which opens tonight at Toronto Workshop Productions. Behind him are the show's two stars, Sylvia Lennick (right) and Peggy Graham
Len Peterson at work on the set of his new play, Women in the Attic, which opens tonight at Toronto Workshop Productions. Behind him are the show's two stars, Sylvia Lennick (right) and Peggy Graham
11/19/1975
Lindsay Kemps interpretation of Salome on Toronto Workshop Productions' stage is as haughty as any Ziegfeld Follies' girl, with his feathered headdres(...)
Lindsay Kemps interpretation of Salome on Toronto Workshop Productions' stage is as haughty as any Ziegfeld Follies' girl, with his feathered headdres(...)
4/20/1978
Bikers hit the boards: Frank Moore makes macho menacing gestures toward Lynne Deragon in The Crackwalker, the sociological drama which opened last night at Toronto Workshop Productions
Bikers hit the boards: Frank Moore makes macho menacing gestures toward Lynne Deragon in The Crackwalker, the sociological drama which opened last night at Toronto Workshop Productions
4/2/1982
Three members of the cast of the musical Africa in the Caribbean, appearing at the Toronto Workshop Productions, are from left, mezzo-soprano opera si(...)
Three members of the cast of the musical Africa in the Caribbean, appearing at the Toronto Workshop Productions, are from left, mezzo-soprano opera si(...)
5/11/1976