A converted factory built to premiere new Canadian plays
Tarragon Theatre
Founded in 1970 by Bill Glassco in a converted Annex-area factory, Tarragon Theatre became one of the central venues for developing new Canadian playwriting.
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Tarragon Theatre opened in 1970 in a converted factory building near Dupont Street and Howland Avenue, founded by director Bill Glassco with an explicit mandate to premiere new Canadian plays at a time when Canadian theatres leaned heavily on British and American work. It quickly became one of the country's most important venues for developing homegrown playwriting, staging early and career-defining work by writers including David French, whose Leaving Home premiered there in 1972.
A launching pad for Canadian playwrights
Over the decades that followed, Tarragon built a reputation as a first stop for new Canadian scripts before they moved to larger stages, developing relationships with generations of playwrights through workshops and commissions as much as through mainstage productions. It remains an active mid-sized theatre in the Annex, still built around its founding mission of new Canadian work rather than revivals or imported productions.
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