Manual Cinema has returned to Boston’s ArtsEmerson with their latest work The End of TV just a year after their delightful showing of Ada/Ava. The company was set up in 2010 as a collaborative of three men and two women dedicated to modernizing shadow puppetry through combining theatre and film. Nonetheless, as with Ada/Ava, there …
The narrative voices of Irish novelist and playwright Maeve Binchy that emerge in Minding Frankie come through with great intensity and enormous emotion in this stage version of a Canadian premier directed by John P Kelly, now on at the Gladstone theater. I attended a preview which was not yet the official opening of …
First published in Artsfile.ca January 7, 2019 Megan Carty and Matt Hertendy star in Lungs at Arts Court. What do you do when you’re rehearsing a show that has no set, no props, no costume changes and no miming but does have a storyline that unfolds in multiple locales at different times? Clearly, you head to …
Photo Nile Scott Studios Small Mouth Sounds now playing at Boston’s SpeakEasy is influenced by the personal experience of its playwright Bess Wohl who underwent the rigors of a silent retreat. The six characters that arrive at the retreat mostly alone seem to be there to change and better their lives during their five …
David Lindsay-Abaire in his earlier works, was a master of television style sit-coms and Ripcord immediately sets us on this track. A clear-cut situation with types who obey the personality clues that the author sends our way right from the beginning when director Riley Stewart’s lively music captures our imagination as we picture …
Article first published on Artsfile.ca January 2 2018 Eric Coates is the artistic director of the Great Canadian Theatre Company.Now into his seventh season as artistic director, has Eric Coates remade the Great Canadian Theatre Company in his own image? GCTC needed, if not a re-making, at least a firm hand when Coates took on …
A Company of Fools Artistic Director Catriona Leger to join Shakespeare In Action for a one-year Community Outreach Coordinator contract Catriona Leger will step back from her role as Artistic Director at a Company of Fools this coming January and will be working with Shakespeare In Action as they move into the role of resident …
What a moment! Glossy Steppe (alias Réjean Dinelle-Mayer as the “Dame”) in her huge curly purple wig, one of the two ‘step-sisters’ tormenting Cinderella, belted out his/her own ferocious version of We Will Survive’ from Priscilla Queen of the Desert, just as the step -sisters battle for the favours of the new Prince ‘charms’ . …
Few sports are as definitively associated with Canada as hockey is, and fittingly, no other one comes close to the significance of the former in the lives of both big and small-town Canadians. While the Montreal-based Segal Centre’s production of The Hockey Sweater: A Musical, in turn adapted from the well-known short story by Roch …
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