3,074 stories by "The Charlebois Post"
One Show: The Process of There to HereFinding and bringing the "agressively contemporary"During the past 15 years, Tina Rasmussen has been engaged in a variety of capacities including Artist…
We like Opera Five and the joyful silliness (and instruction) we get out of their Opera Cheats - each a little capsule on one opera. Their latest is on La Bohème. It's hump day! Have fun (a…
Do you hear the people sing the songs of my childhood?How I grew up with Les Mis…by Joe Vermeulen@YYZatcboyIt's 1989, and I am at the Royal Alexandra Theatre with my parents. I am three ye…
The Paradoxes of Canadian StardomCanadians have strange attitudes to their celebritiesby Gaëtan L. Charlebois@gcharleboisMy significant other is francophone so we watch lots of French-lan…
(Pod) Casting Theatreby Estelle RosenSarah Mahoney is an international theatre practitioner involved in creating theatre on four continents. She has five years of professional experience dir…
Sarah Jane Pelzer in Ride the Cyclone (photo: Tim Matheson)This week, ours suggestions are all about music...and our editors' envy.We're envious that Winnipeg gets a winter gale named T…
Listening to the Gutby Joel Ivany(photos were submitted by Mr. Ivany as images which inspired his production)Les Contes D'Hoffmann, is a wonderful piece written in the Opéra-Comique structu…
Laura Olofson (Witch) and Mackenzie Wojcik (Narrator) (photo credit: Mairen Kops)Sondheim's Freudian Forrestby Connie Manfredi and Ryan SegalProducing Sondheim is no easy feat, so when the R…
Representing the Realityby David C. JonesDiversity in the performing arts is vital to keep Canada's cultural body alive. As our visible minority population is already a majority in many urba…
(via Hart House website)Not Civilized " EnglishThis new Robin Hood is uneven, but entertainingby Stuart Munro@StuartMunroTOThe tone is set early on in Hart House's new production of Robin Ho…
CANADIAN THEATRE HEATS UP WINTER 2013joel fishbaneHopefully, of all the New Year's resolutions you're going to break this year, you'll still honour the one about seeing as much live theatre …
A Month in The Countryby Cameryn MooreI've been here for a month, and most of that has been inside, partly because of the weather, namely, a record snowfall that buried my trusty car to the …
Kristen Thomson (photo credit: Guntar Kravis / cropped) The Shadows of Middle Ageby Greg BunkerHead check! Crow's Theatre's Someone Else is a black comedy that has you in fits of laught…
Reviving the Blastby Christian BainesIt's hard to imagine the ice water blast of originality that Hedwig and the Angry Inch must have seemed when it debuted in New York in 1998. With a film …
Megan Follows (photo credit: John Lauener)Beyond Homerby Beat RiceI first want to state that I never saw the original Nightwood Theatre production of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopaid o…
Sleep, My EnemyMike Birbiglia transforms his solo into a gemby Gaëtan L. CharleboisI am an unabashed fan of everything Mike Birbilia does. I even think his Twitter feed is brilliant.I was…
Mike Shara and Nicole Underhay(photo: Cylla von Tiedemann)Actors at Playby Christian BainesFor Viennese lothario, Anatol, one woman is much the same as any other, to the point he categorizes…
It's Not the Movieby Élaine CharleboisFollowing a similar (yet not identical) storyline to the film, Billy Elliot the Musical tells the story of a young boy from a working class family w…
(photo via Twitter; credit: Maria Vartanova)Beast of Warby Jim MurchisonChristmas is over. It is time to get back to reality. There are few playwrights that expose reality and lift the veil …
Bethany Jillard and Tom McCamus in Bruce Monk's shot from MTC's Gone With The Wind. Once again Monk, a master, has caught the little details which tell a story. There is the whiff of sex - t…
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Lauren Brotman (photo credit: Steve Carty)When Much is Given and More is Wishedby Christian BainesIt's almost impossible not to admire the intent behind Laura Mullin and Chris Tolley's Awake…
(Too) Ordinaryby David C. JonesLove Relephant Theatre " love musical theatre " love these actors " love that artists support other artists. Love talent, but did not love the show. Liked part…
Fear and Addictionby Jay Catterson@ScienceOfSmutInsights into what causes addictions and our biggest fears are highlighted in the one-man play, Medicine, written and performed by Fringe…
