3,074 stories by "The Charlebois Post"
(photo credit: Guntar Kravis)Lear-ing at the ExperienceText falls by the waysideby Jason BookerDirector Philip McKee's Lear, offers a modern take that contemporizes and creates a visceral ex…
Dead Man SingingApproaching a new opera on CDby Gaëtan L. CharleboisI never go to an opera unprepared. I buy a CD, I listen to it over and over again, and study the libretto and the histo…
Home Sweet Homeby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonThere is something about theatre that has always comforted me. I like watching theatre. I have always enjoyed the various jobs I have done r…
Insane Magnifiedby Jim Murchison@JimMurchisonAlan Ayckbourn says of his own work that he writes serious comedy. If by that he meant seriously funny comedy then he has properly described his …
Trent Pardy, Delphine Bienvenu, France Rolland, Jean-Robert Bourdage (photo credit: Jeff Mann)Céline in the darknessby Chad Dembski Back in the Fall when I was looking at the various season…
Lucetg.com is Centaur Theatre's photographer and they are as reliable as the material they are shooting. But with the moody, strange piece TRAD, they seem to be particularly inspired. Here w…
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Naomi AbiolaGet ready to WAVE YOUR RAG!by Beat RiceSeventh Heaven is a one-woman piece of poetic theatre written and performed by Naomi Abiola. Abiola tells the story of Celia, born in…
(photo: Rolline Laporte)Yellow Moon shines bright at La LicorneLa ballade de Leila et Lee is a strong remount of 2010 showby Sarah DeshaiesOn the morning of January 23, teen duo Leila and Le…
(photo by David Bukash)Let's Make the Audience SingCute, but not what you might call "high art."by Spencer Malthouse@S_MalthouseIn a first-time pairing, Pacific Opera Victoria and The Belfry…
The Wordless Angelby Christian BainesAfter 14 years as one of Canada's most successful freelance directors, Jennifer Tarver takes the reigns at Toronto's Necessary Angel Theatre Company. She…
Rare has become a phenomenon in the Queen City. After it took off like a comet at last year's Toronto Fringe, it found a home at the Young Centre where, since it opened last month, it has be…
Short and Sweetby Valerie Cardinal@vscardinalWe are living in the Age of the Internet. There's no use denying it when most of you reading this now are doing so on your own laptops, and will …
Everyone Has A SayCutting though the noise by Gaëtan L. CharleboisTwo weeks ago something I wrote made me the victim of a garden-variety troll. Because I am working on a theatre webs…
A Week in Theatreby Chris Lane@chrislanetweetsNew project announcements: The Stratford Festival will be launching their new Forum series with a Shakespeare Slam in Toronto. The event will fe…
its fierce beating heartby Estelle RosenSteven McCarthy is an actor, musician and theatre-maker whose work in various disciplines has been seen across Canada and around the world, garne…
The Merchant of Venice is not an easy play. Companies think long and hard before daring to present it. Though called a comedy, it is full of dark themes of anti-Semitism, cruelty and bullyin…
Young Nicolas Goes to "Iceland"by Amy Lee LavoiePlaywright Amy Lee Lavoie interviewed playwright Nicolas Billon about his play Iceland opening at Factory Theatre March 2. In April…
From left to right: Michelle Martin, Robert Moloney, Andrew Coghlan, Nadia BlanchfieldFour Dogs And A Bone: Fame, Art and Keeping It Realby Shawn Macdonald(photos by Gaelen Beatty)I first sa…
Jenny Young, Pippa Leslie and Joan Wiecha (photo credit: lucetg.com)Scales of Injusticeby Jim MurchisonThe first thing I noticed about James Lavoie's set design when I stepped into the theat…
Leanna Brodie, John Emmet, Tracy Pippa Mackie - Photo by Ian SnowSimple and artistic horror poetryThree Odd Storiesby David C. JonesPi Theatre likes to produce "bold and uncompromising plays…
Jed Farris (photo credit: Daniel DiMarco)Love Behind the Wire Never Quite Bloomsby Christian BainesGay love in the trenches is a common enough theme. Gay love in a concentration camp is a ha…
Maxime Denommée and Léane Labrèche-Dor (photo: François Brunelle)Beyond The Pageby Nanette Soucy In retrospect, it would be disingenuous of me to say that I didn't know what …
l-r Donald Rees, Nir Guzinski, Sean Curley (Photo credit: David Reudelhuber)Younger take on ART misses the white canvas mark Brave New Productions opens 10th year with Reza playSarah De…
