Boston is privileged to welcome Indecent, Paula Vogel’s and Rebecca Taichman’s adaptation of Sholem Asch’s 1907 God of Vengeance (Got fun nekome) which became the first play to be banned on Broadway for sexual impropriety. Asch, a well-educated Polish Jew was interested in broadening Yiddish literature so that it dealt with the problems, developments, and realities of …
Indecent , written by Paula Vogel, was first produced at the Yale repertory theatre in 2015. This present show is directed by Lisa Rubin, artistic and executive Director of the Segal Centre in Montreal. To be very clear, Indecent is not the staging of Sholem Asch’s play God of Vengeance written in 1906 and …
A two-hander by Rose Napoli that has been given a fine production at the GCTC thanks to director Eric Coates’ delicate work with actors Erica Anderson and Geoff McBride. There is also the beautiful scenography constructed by Seth Gerry’s lighting design that speaks to the text in many ways and the clean lines of Brian …
The season will celebrate indigenous women’s resilience, strength and beauty ,with nine productions out of eleven written and created by women. In addition to English and French, more than ten indigenous languages will be spoken in the works presented next year, including Anishinaabermowin , Coast Salish, Cree, Gitxsan, Inuktitut, Kalaallisut , Nlkaka’pamux’stn.and many other languages, …
Photo Marianne Duval AmericanDream.ca est la première mondiale d’une trilogie qui dure trois heures 40 minutes. En passant par des moments d’ennui jusqu’à la fascination la plus totale, le spectateur rencontre quatre générations de la famille Cardinal, un récit à la fois biographique et imaginaire qui accumule des fragments analogiques d’un narratif parfois difficile à …
Photo Maria Vartanova Agatha Christie is a master of murder mystery. Her works include complicated plots, a number of suspects – each one with a well kept secret – and Miss Marple, an amateur sleuth with unparalleled wit. What makes her books so widely loved is that, although events revolve around a murder, the story …
The National Arts Centre’s latest acquisition, The Pigeon King originally from Blyth Festival and starring the Blyth Festival cast, is an outstanding southwestern Ontario country musical comedy built around one of the most outrageous pyramid schemes Canada’s ever seen, the Pigeon King International scam of the early-to-mid-2000s that saw hundreds of farmers switch over to …
Did Arlan Galbraith believe his own sales pitch? Others sure did. So many fell under his folksy spell that, between 2001 and 2008, farmers in southern Ontario, as far west as Alberta and in several U.S. states poured millions into Galbraith’s Ponzi scheme involving pigeon breeding. Watching The Pigeon King — a Blyth Festival production …
Preview of the show at the Great Canadian Theatre Company, A docudrama production from the Blythe Festival. Patrick Langston april 19 the show opens on April 26 with previews on april 24-25. You’d never sink your life savings into a Ponzi scheme, right? Especially one operated by a former pig farmer who wants you to …
Preview published in Arts File April 11, 2019. In October, 1962, Canada’s prime minister, John Diefenbaker, found himself swept into a crisis that threatened to end life as we knew it. The U.S., under President John F. Kennedy, had discovered that Russia was installing nuclear missiles in Cuba that were capable of striking targets in …