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Neema Bickersteth as Adeline and Starr Domingue as Vonzia in the 2011 run at the LSPU Hall (St. John's, NL) ACT I ProblemsOil and Water takes its timeby Beat RiceI am instantly curious …
Sometimes a theatre photo is just right, as is this one from Bruce Monk. It is for MTC's Next to Normal with Jonathan Cullen and Steffi DiDomenicantonio and it captures perfectly that moment…
Photo: Bruce Zinger / Marie McDunnough & Jack Rennie, Artists of Atelier Ballet.The One by LullyArmide - the singer and the opera - are gorgeousby Axel Van CheeThe story of Armida b…
The creation of Jupiter's Eagle for Stratford's upcoming production of Cymbeline directed by Antoni Cimolino."Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine:and so, away: no further with yo…
A new season, a new artistic director: Wajdi Mouawad, the outgoing AD, literally gave incoming director Brigitte Haentjens the keys to the house yesterday. The new commander, a well-known na…
Le Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (TNM) is presenting an eclectic season that bounces from Ionesco (Le roi se meurt) to Molière (Les femmes savants) to a musical based on Michel Tremblay (Le …
Buddies in Bad Times artistic director Brendan Healey has announced the company's new season and among the highlights is a return of the critically acclaimed The Normal Heart, produced by St…
A Critic's CommandmentsNo, we're not Godby Gaëtan L. CharleboisI was listening to an episode of This American Life, the radio show hosted by Ira Glass which presents a series of stories, …
Director Jacques Lemay giving notes backstage before the opening of Cats(photo via Theatre Calgary Twitter feed)The Mystery of CatsA perennial takes Theatre Calgary's audience by stormby Rya…
Chantale Demole in Hay Fever (poster by Rosaura Guzman et al.)Oil and Water (photo of Petrina Bromley by Peter Bromley)We think it's funnier than Blithe Spirit and it's far more complex than…
Chafe and Phillips (photo credit: Don Ellis)Lanier RememberedOil and Water explores the consequences of lives livedby Robert ChafeIn February of 2011 my company, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundla…
DON'T DRINK THE HATERADEIt's all on youby Cameryn MooreIt was in Winnipeg in 2010. I was doing Phone Whore and steadily building audience, but I couldn't stop, right? So, after finishing a s…
Puelo DeirBorn againOscar Wilde once famously noted, "One can survive everything nowadays except death." But the prospect of death often drives us to reach for the stars, like Montreal playw…
Stephanie MacDonald and Jenny Munday. Photo by Janet MacLellan.The Beauty of SimplicityMacIvor conquers at NACBy Jim MurchisonThe play starts in a therapist's office while it rains. The rain…
IN DEFENSE OF CHARLIE BROWNjoel fishbaneYears ago a friend who shall remain nameless (hint: she's part of the current cast of CMT's The Singing Bee) gave me the script to You're a Good Man, …
The Globe theatre presented a set of surprises and a series of plays already well-known around the country in their 2012-13 lineup.Billy Bishop Goes to War, the iconic two-hander, and I, Cla…
(photo credit: Trudie Lee)WICKED SCENES FROM THE END OF THE WORLDMontrealers are lucky that their city is where Penny Plain is finishing it's cross-country tour.joel fishbaneA tour…
(Photo credit: Craig Francis)MassRick Miller is 33, the same age as Jesus was when he was crucified, he was raised Catholic, he hasn't been to church in 15 yearsby Rebecca Ugolini"Vous allez…
The Cultch (aka: Vancouver East Cultural Centre) has announced its 39th season, programmed by executive director Heather Redfern. The lineup includes productions and companies from Vanc…
A superbly emotion-drenched photo from COC's The Tales of Hoffman; taken by master Michael Cooper and featuring (in the foreground) Russell Thomas with Keri Alkerma and John Relyea(Read our …
Axis Theatre Company's Number 14 (photo: David Cooper)Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC) launched what artistic director, Lise Ann Johnson, is calling "a season full of heart and humour."…
NutterThe 22nd SummerWorks Festival (August 9-19) will feature 40 plays as chosen by a jury for this not-quite-fringe event.Among the many notables are a new work by Daniel MacIvor, Johanna …
Vancouver Playhouse is no more but, as they say, the show must go on and Arts Club is providing plenty to fill the void. The company's three houses - Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, Granv…
