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Promo for Soulpepper's production of Lee MacDougall's High Life - a deliciously dark work about losers and a heist
The Insidious Nature of TheatreDamned if it's not everywhereby Gaëtan L. CharleboisBelieve it or not...There was a time when Radio-Canada, through it's primetime Sunday (hit) series Les b…
Warona Steshwaelo and Mike Payette in New Canadian Kid(photo: Ashley Belmer)Veteran Canadian WriterUpstage host Eric Sukhu spoke with playwright Dennis Foon about his play New Canadian…
This week the community theatre group Eastside Players are premiering a new work (we just like saying that phrase...makes us hum). Rapture, by Joanna Murray-Smith, tells of a group of friend…
Remembering the AweWorld Stage brings it all homeby Beat RiceRemember those moments when you were kid and being in awe of something? Remember how your imagination used to bubble up as you li…
l-r Paul Hopkins, Jillian Fargey, Jade Hassouné (photo: lucetg.com)From With-In AbsentiaActor's notes by Paul HopkinsI'm currently performing in Morris Panych's new play, In Absentia, …
The Windmill As it stands today by schau mal einer an, via Google's Panoramio picture-sharing websiteThe Theatre of WarAs Canadian troops train in combat operations overseas, the Abominable …
(In order of publication)Brad Fraser's Open Letter to Richard RoseSteve Gallucio's Open letter to Richard RoseBrad Fraser's essay on the Healey AffairGaëtan Charlebois's comments on the H…
The Quebec ThingThe Healey Affair - Not Hereby Steve GalluccioGoing back to the Mike Healey/Tarragon affair... It is clear now that the Tarragon did not produce the Healey play, which w…
The unsung heroineby Gaëtan L. CharleboisJennifer Cook, who died this week after a prolonged illness, was one of the great unsung heroines of Canadian theatre having touched the lives of …
Laura Condlln, Shannon Mercer and Sofia Tomic (Photo by John Lauener)See It!A Beckett noob gets bitby Stuart MunroI confess. Even though I went to a performing arts school, I don't know anyt…
MAMET VS THE MAGICAL POST OBAMA TIME joel fishbaneAs frustrated as I can be with some of David Mamet's work, I remain doggedly convinced that he is one of the finest playwrights of the moder…
As they prepare to climb into their latest production, Carmen, Pacific Opera has announced its plans for the 2012-13 season.Along with some standard-issue regional house content (Tosca), the…
(fig. 1)FIVE WAYS TO SIT IN THE AUDIENCETry these out with your friends!by Matt Raudsepp of Matt and Kyle and Matt1. Nobody To My Left/Somebody To My Right: Safe (fig. 1)The Holy Grail of as…
BraultThe Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) is hosting the annual meeting of The Association of Performing Arts Service Organizations (APASO), in April. The announced speakers …
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Oh! The Fucking WeekWhen seven days can be as exhilarating as it is frustratingby Gaëtan L. CharleboisHave you ever had one of those weeks where, while running errands on a gray, rainy da…
Marilyn Koop's magnificent art for Beckett: Feck It! at Canadian Stage
Part II of the "documentary" series made bySidemart Theatrical Grocery for Scientific Americans (see Part I here)
After seven years as artistic director of GCTC (Great Canadian Theatre Company) in Ottawa, Lise Ann Johnson has decided to step down. The announcement was made by board chair Nhanci Wright w…
Our Second Annual Gallery of GorgeousThe Charlebois Post likes show folk. All of them! (Really!) But, because we are only human, there are some we like more than others and though - on the f…
Flinch MobAll signs point to a chill - a very weird oneby Gaëtan L. Charlebois(see below for comments from Michael Healey)The news is not good and for all the wrong reasons. We are NOT be…
Vile Passéist poster art for Jew of Malta and Edward IIFitzgeraldIt's grim, rainy/icy, gray and slushy outside; what better way to celebrate midwinter hideousness than with the grayness (bu…
Go WestCanada's most famous transsexual Nina Arsenault brings her critically-hailed one-transwoman show The Silicone Diaries to Vancouverby Richard Burnett (all photos courtesy Nina Arsenaul…
