 Opening in November 1919 the Art Deco theatre on the University of Toronto campus quickly became a leader in the Canadian "Little Theatre" movement of the 1920s and 1930s.After the war, Hart House Theatre, under the direction of Robert Gill, became an extracurricular student theatre and for twenty years turned out a new generation of stage professionals.William Hutt, Don Harron, Kate Reid, David Gardner, Arthur Hiller, William B. Davis, Donald Sutherland, Norman Jewison and Lorne Michaels all got their start treading the boards on the Hart House stage.