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Alice Cooper (courtesy Alice Cooper)VaudevillainTheatre villains on the stage and off. And who is the queerest of them all? With cameos by Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Sarah Bernhardt, The Jok…
The Sweet Shit of FringePhone sex. Food service. Fringe festival. In all of those environments, I learned to move fastby Cameryn MooreFringe, man. It's hard. Every day it's get to the venue …
Wedding BelleMary gets married at ATPby Ryan HurlIt is the night before Mary's Wedding. We are invited into a dream. Some say dreams are the mind's way of filtering through information, abso…
Lucinda Davis and Quincy Armorer (photo credit: lucetg.com)The Unchangeable PastCentaur has a dynamite cast for the Apparelby Sarah DeshaiesWho hasn't tried to envision what their forebears'…
ARTISTS AND TAXES: A BRIEF PRIMERjoel fishbaneMost people know me as a writer / actor / man about town, but every Spring I moonlight as a tax preparer for the self-employed. A lifelong relat…
Back row Janet Uren, Kat Smiley, Tim Oberholzer. Front Row Michelle LeBlanc, David Whiteley, Genevieve Sirois, Alain Chamsi. (photo credit: Lois Segal)Capital FrielMore of the Irishman…
Trish Lindström and Zach Fraser inThe Game of Love and Chance (photo credit: lucetg.com)Globetrotting on a Bicycle......with a Puppet by Amanda SiinoHalifax, London, Paris, Singapore, …
Press release: "The Canada Council for the Arts is enormously heartened by the positive message sent by the 2012 budget and the support of the government in recognizing the Council's le…
Kaneza Schaal (Photo: © Franck Beloncle)"Loneliness is an affliction." - The WriterWooster Group explodes into World Stageby Jessica YenThe Wooster Group's Version of Tennessee Williams' …
Shauna Black and Oliver Becker in Carnage (photo: Bruce Monk)After being thrown into doubt by the recent closure of Vancouver Playhouse, a production from Manitoba Theatre Centre of Yasmina …
Hamlet soloNeptune Theatre's Artistic Director, George Pothitos, can't be accused of doing things by halves as he announced, this morning, a huge season for the House's year.Included in the …
Théâtre français de Toronto's artistic director, Guy Migneault, yesterday announced a season that travels time and place, beginning with a work by the Father of French Theatre, Moliè…
John Gilbert, Musical director of Guys and Dolls (via: frog)PAUL'S BABYSegal Centre Announces It's 2012 " 13 Seasonjoel fishbane"Paul Flicker, this is your baby this year," said the Segal Ce…
Heartlessby Chad DembskiLucy Lost her Heart is the third part of a trilogy that has been in development since 2005 by Theatre Junction Grand. This is my first time experienci…
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night inMTC's God of Carnage with Vickie Papavs and Shauna Black(photo credit: Bruce Monk)
Brendan McMurtry-Howlett and Thomas Olajide (photo credit: Sandra Lefrancois)Searing SiaCahoots at Factory serves up pain and compassionby Jasmine ChenLast night's opening of SIA at The Fact…
Coming back for a short run, Theatre Junction's presentation of Performs Tom Waits
2004 Siminovitch prize-winner and Artistic Fraud (NEWFL) founder Jillian Keiley will be the new artistic director of English Theatre at the National Arts Centre.See Artistic Fraud's websiteR…
IKIWISIObscenity, libel and censorship in the age of the internetby Gaëtan L. CharleboisIn a US obscenity case back in 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously wrote in an opin…
Exciting lineup in Annual Festby Estelle RosenThe sixth edition of the Festival TransAmériques (FTA), taking place from May 24 to June 9, 2012 includes plays, dance pieces, exhibits and fil…
In a season that shows artistic director Vanessa Porteous' talent for balance, Calgarians will be able to sing along to You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (getting a production in Stratford th…
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's World Theatre Day message, co-written by AD Des McAnuff and General Director (and AD designate) Antoni Cimolino, begins with a celebrated quote from John…
It's a rally, it's art, it's feminist, it's Queer, it's comedy and it's a party. It's Nightwood's FemCab 2012 and you can't go wrong with a host like Elvira Kurt, one of the funniest pe…
From left: Cara Ricketts, Graham Abbey, Geraint Wyn Davies (Andrew Eccles photo)Occasionally I come up for airTime is probably the most important and scarcest resource in Canadian theat…
