3,074 stories by "The Charlebois Post"
Earhart (via Wikipedia)A musical that has a conscience and yet is an utter blast? Is that possible? Indeed it is. Hairspray is a strange hybrid - originally a movie by the iconoclastic John …
Of Vaudevilles all Atomic, Cabbages and DragqueensI don't believe in a God, but I like to think that if one ever did exist that they would have to be logical, understanding, and have a sense…
It's a NOLA Halloweenby Cameryn MooreIt's beautiful out here, in the middle of a going-to-wild field, in the heart of New Orleans' vast City Park, on Halloween.My billet, a friend from the 2…
Yves JacquesA Moon To Sleep Byby David C. Jones@iamdavidcjonesAh "art". Some you tantalize, others you leave cold. It is your nature. Your audience can be fickle and sometimes you are overly…
Moonstruckby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonFly Me to The Moon is the second play by Marie Jones to play in Ottawa this season. The first one was Stones in His Pockets and both have been di…
AN ODE TO THE STAGE MANAGERjoel fishbaneA long time ago, while in university, I had the opportunity to produce the first play I had ever written. On the first day of rehearsals, I was approa…
Original Cast London Palladium Production © 2011 RUG Ltd. - Photo: Keith PattisonOver the RainbowShameless promotion or good television?by Stuart MunroFor anyone who's been following my c…
Trudie Lee's lovely shot from Pride and Prejudice, at Theatre Calgary (and coming to NAC).Tyrell Crews is Darcy and Shannon Taylor is Elizabeth.(Read our review)Tyrell Crews as Mr. Darcy, Sh…
Happy Hallowe'en from the people at Premier Acte...Viande (Meat)
Why We Must CareAn election is coming and it could hurtby Gaëtan L. CharleboisIt was an awful time. Ronald Reagan was president and Margaret Thatcher and Brian Mulroney were prime ministe…
Oliver Becker in Red (photo credit: David Cooper)With the huge success of Stones in His Pockets, Marie Jones need never have worked again. But here she comes, this week, with Fly Me To The M…
(photo credit: Joseph Ste-Marie)No Sex and the City8 Ways goes to New Yorkby Michaela Di CesareI fear I've become that person. You know, that person who's always talking about the same proje…
Pride and prejudiceby Cameryn Moore Last weekend I was out on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans, just as I will be by the time anyone reads this, plying my trade, as it were, with the Sidewalk…
Left to Right: Mike Stack, Courtenay J. Stevens Photo Credit: David CooperNext Stop: Canadaby Chris LaneThe Number 14 bus is making a trip across Canada to cap twenty laughter…
ONCE UPON A TIME, AT MCGILL….joel fishbaneAbout ten years ago, I wandered into a production of Company, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's seminal musical that was hailed as the first plo…
Poster artAlone, Togetherby Joe VermeulenBashir Lazhar, a franco-Canadian play by Evelyne De La Chenelière, is a fantastic exploration about racism, suicide and death, love and loss, and in…
Jennifer Mawhinney and Melissa Oei. Photo by David Cooper.She Stoops...SHE CONQUERS!!!by David C. Jones@iamdavidcjonesIt was tough going off the top of She Stoops to Conquer; written in…
Ring 'Round RobertLepage's Wagner, Wagner's Lepageby Gaëtan L. CharleboisUnlike many proud Canadians, I am rarely delighted by two cultural icons: Cirque du Soleil and Robert Lepage. In b…
Mike Stack in David Cooper's deliriously silly photo from the cross-country phenomenon, The Number 14, now in Vancouver and then across the country, ending its tour in Montreal in the spring…
The four young and attractive singers who play the four young and attractive lovers in La Bohème, now at Vancouver Opera.
My Mother's StoryLetter From VancouverPants on Fire, TheUnplugging and My Mother's Story reviewedby David C. Jones@iamdavidcjonesMy Mother's StoryI was reluctant to attend this show. Based o…
What are the limits?One critic revives the debateby Gaëtan L. CharleboisIn my third year of acting school, one of my teachers - an inveterate bastard - decided to tell us the facts of lif…
Jeff Strome, Brent Hirose and Cole Humeny (Photo by Epic Photography)Revisiting Menby Edgar GovernoAny modern production of A Few Good Men must emerge from three shadows simultaneo…
