EXCITEMENTS GROWING AT THE GCTC

The new location at the corner of Wellington and Holland starts rising up. This picture from May 12, 2006.

Pictures above from May 17, 2006.

July 25, 2006.

The two pictures above were taken in February 2007.

Guitarist Paul Bordeau plays the music of Lenny Breau during a 2007/2008 season launch segment presenting information about Pierre Brault's new play, 5 O'Clock Bells, a GCTC co-production with Sleeping Dog Theatre. The play sheds biographic and musical light on Lenny Breau, one of Canada's unsung musical heroes.

Janet Yale, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs at TELUS and GCTC Board Member, and Mark Sutcliffe, Chair of the GCTC Board of Directors at the New Season 2007/2008 Launch at 910 Gladstone.
Artistic Director Lise Ann Johnson talks about the Capital Letters. It's the name of the new 2007/2008 season. To celebrate the opening of the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre, all the plays are either penned by writers from Ottawa, or feature a connection to our Nation's Capital.
Playwright and former GCTC Artistic Director Arthur Milner interviews The Man From The Capital Director Jennifer Brewin about the 2007/2008 season, and the first play in GCTC's inaugual season at the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre.

On April 16, the GCTC had a public launch of the new upcoming season and talk about the new Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre which will open this fall at the corner of Wellington and Holland in Ottawa. The new season called Capital Letters is being billed as a love letter to the National Capital region. The new state of the art facility with 265 seat theatre, a studio theatre with flexible seating for 90, a Wine and Desset Bar that will be operated by Thyme & Again and will include a new Catering service. There will also be The Lorraine Fritzy Yale Gallery that will be Ottawa's newest visual arts exhibition space. This was made possible by a generous $75,000 gift to the Making It Greater Capital Campaign by Janet Yale and TELUS. Also announced was the resurrection of Accoutic Waves concert series which will be co-presented with the Ottawa Folk Festival for 5 shows in the upcoming season. http://www.gctc.ca, http://www.ottawafolk.org