Young People's Theatre

Young People's Theatre was founded in 1966 by Susan Douglas Rubes. Originally performing in the now-demolished Colonnade Theatre on Bloor Street, since the 1977-78 season, its home has been a renovated Heritage Building, originally a three-storey stables for the horses that pulled Toronto Street Railways horsecars in the late 19th century, as well as an electrical generating plant, and a Toronto Transit Commission warehouse.

YPT operates two performance spaces in the building at 165 Front Street East; the Susan Douglas Rubes Theatre and the Nathan Cohen Studio.

The theatre was renamed Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People in the spring of 2001, after a donation of $1.5 million from Kevin Kimsa in honour of his mother. In March 2011, the theatre announced a change back to its original name: Young People's Theatre.

References

External links

YPT Homepage

Theatres in Toronto

Live performing	Bathurst Street Theatre Ed Mirvish Theatre Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres Panasonic Theatre Princess of Wales Theatre Royal Alexandra Theatre Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Toronto Centre for the Arts Young Centre for the Performing Arts Young People's Theatre Runnymede Theatre Standard Theatre

Music	Massey Hall Molson Canadian Amphitheatre The Music Hall The Opera House Roy Thomson Hall Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts

Cinemas	Bloor Cinema University Theatre Uptown Theatre Scotiabank Theatre Fox Theatre Revue Cinema Cinesphere Metro Theatre TIFF Bell Lightbox

Italics indicate structures now defunct or demolished.

Coordinates: 43°39′00″N 79°22′07″W / 43.6500°N 79.36872°W / 43.6500; -79.36872