3,074 stories by "The Charlebois Post"
(photo credit: Vincent Champoux)Ecstasy, fantasy, eroticism, desires, fidelity, infidelity, one word: Turmoil A very unique adaptation of Yukio Mishima.By Isabelle-Ann CharleboisMadame …
Sacred to ProfaneAgainst The Grain tempts the devilby Axel Van CheeOne thing I love about small companies is that they need to be innovative and constantly explore all the possibilities in t…
REQUIEM FOR A PLAYHOUSEjoel fishbaneTheatre, Vancouver Playhouse (1963 " 2012). Passed away suddenly on Saturday, March 10 surrounded by friends, family and protestors who insisted that they…
Marcel Jeannin and Kim Yaroshevskaya (photo: Andrée Lanthier)Are you dead yet?Darkness and Lite at The Segalby Nanette SoucyIn Morris Panych's Vigil, at the Segal Centre, in co-production w…
Walker's Worldby Jim MurchisonI got a message that the Algonquin College needed some feedback on a little matter that was going down at the Studio theatre. The source was solid. She's the ki…
Emily Cooper's magnificent promo art for Noel Coward'sbackstage comedy, Present Laughter, at the Shaw Festival this summer.
James Cade (photo credit: Juan Camlio Palacio)Passionfree as injuns engages the sensesby Jasmine ChenInspired by O'Neill's classic American play Desire Under the Elms, free as injuns is a sa…
Centaur offers a varried assortment of worksby Estelle Rosen and Gaëtan L. CharleboisAmong the well-known Montrealers appearing in Centaur Theatre's 2012-13 season are actor Johanna Nutte…
As part of the party for the 60th Anniversary of the Stratford Festival, the company is launching a multi-media e-book and the Canadian Government announced today that they will help fund it…
Among the offerings in the 2012 Luminato Festival, this summer in Toronto, is a new work by Robert Lepage and a revival of Philip Glass's seminal opera Einstein on The Beach, it was announce…
Rehearsal for The Wooster Group's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carré comingto World Stage 2012
Theatre and Vancouver: A Difficult RelationshipThis city also has no cultural soul whatsoever.by Aaron Craven of Mitch and Murray Productions(published November 10, 2011, at Everyone Has The…
What Just Happened?!?!by Sabrina Evertt, Artistic Producer, Twenty Something Theatre, Vancouver(Reprinted by permission)Yesterday I was reeling. I had a very hard time believing that it…
What a Week!Canadian theatre rides the cycloneBy Gaëtan L. CharleboisJayzus, I had a really juicy rant all ready to go, this week, but the news - so...much...news - put me on a CharPo and…
PLAYHOUSE MEMORIESby Mark Leiren-Young[Mark Leiren-Young is Vancouver Editor of The Charlebois Post as well as a playwright, writer and pundit. This article appeared in T…
Curtains for the Vancouver PlayhouseWith no hero in sight, the theatre is closing. In its honour, let's keep the arts centre stage.by Mark Leiren Young[Mark Leiren-Young is Vancouver Editor …
How the Sun helped post the Vancouver Playhouse's closing noticeBy Frank Moher[Ed: As part of a series of opinions we will be publishing, we asked Mr. Moher if we could repost his brilliant …
The Importance of Being Earnest (photo of Stuart Sutherland by Michael Cooper)Penny PlainPenny Plain, master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett's new work, continues its journey across the countr…
Holier Than ThouGoing beyond Weillby Joel Ivany, Artistic Director and Founder - Against the Grain TheatreOn Friday March 16 and Saturday March 17, Against the Grain Theatre will be pre…
"THE DEERINATOR"Hmmm. I'm pretty sure that's Frappucino.by Cameryn Moore[Publisher's note: Today we are launching a new column by actor/writer Cameryn Moore, a star of the North American Fr…
Picking at scabsTo review or not to review non-union theatre shows? Fighting for scraps, on and off the stage. Plus Shrek the Musical, Rossini at L'Opera de Montreal and DeGrassi teen idol A…
State of Denial: In memories of grandmothers who lived to tell © Rahul Varma, March 11, 2012State of Denial is about Sahana, a Turkish Muslim woman in her nineties, who has devoted h…
As Everyone DoesMozart at UofTby Axel Van CheeMozart's Cosi fan tutte is a comedy, a farce on love on the surface, but the depth of human emotions, the anguish, the questioning, the sharp ba…
Response Quick and MassiveThe social networks take over the Vancouver Playhouse storyby Gaëtan L. Charlebois(Updated 1:36 pm ET, March 10) On Facebook, on Twitter, news spread quickly tha…
