Texte de Iliana Prieto Jimenez & Cristina Rebull Pradas. Photo Paul Chéneau À la onzième Rencontre de théâtre amateur à Fort-de-France, les jours se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas. Après les vingt-quatre de L’Autre Bord Compagnie, les douze de la troupe Les Comédiens, les six du Théâtre du Bon Bout, voici les deux de l’association À tire d’elles, …
Lucid Dreams Production: Once Upon a Kingdom Theatre, Ottawa Director: Ekaterina Vetrov What an exciting piece of news for the Ottawa theatre community: Once Upon a Kingdom Theatre will be representing North America at the 15th World Festival of Children’s Theatre in Lingen, Germany in June 2018. As over 80 theatres all over the world …
STRATFORD, Ontario — You start having a good feeling about the Stratford Festival’s latest revival of The Music Man from the very beginning. That‘s because of how brilliantly it brings off that audacious opening scene on a train bound for River City, Iowa, in 1912. It’s a guy setting — a lot of traveling salesmen …
Photo by Alan Dean. Music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and some songs with Stig Anderson Book by Catherine Johnson Originally conceived by Judy Craymer Orpheus Musical Theatre Society Directed by Shaun Toohey Thank You For The Music…and the performances, energy, lighting, colour and overall fun of Mamma Mia! The Winner Takes …
Perhaps it was novelist Henry James’ own frustrated playwriting ambitions that were jealously at play when he attended a peformance of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband more that 120 year ago and delivered an appalled verdict. The ever-fastidious James considered Wilde’s new stage piece “so helpless, so crude, so bad, so clumsy, so feeble, so …
1000 Islands Playhouse in Gananoque, ON As the first offering in the 1000 Islands Playhouse’s summer 2018 season, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands (a Marquis Entertainment Production) serves up delightful music with a mostly comedic and light-hearted story. Being a production which has received prestigious awards and has travelled to many places overseas, one may …
“Jagged Little Pill,” Alanis Morissette’s internationally famous alt-rock album released in 1995 has been turned into exciting musical theatre with two new songs composed for it. Imaginatively directed by the American Repertory Theatre’s Diane Paulus and stunningly choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the performers sing, dance, and act with skill. At the opening, two bands …
The 15th annual Israeli Film Festival opened on May 24 in the brand new Alma Duncan Salon in the Ottawa Art Gallery , a space of brilliant light and wondrous new urban perspectives that project us way above downtown Ottawa making us feel as though we were floating somewhere between New York and another huge …
Guest reviewer: Icil Philippe “Don’t afraid to be different. Conformity is practically a death sentence to an artist. In other words: if you’re doing what everyone else has done, you don’t give yourself the chance to do what nobody but you can do.” [Z.Z. Packer-African-American author, 2003.] By a series of coincidences several of the …
Miss Shakespeare Book and lyrics by Tracey Power Music co-written with Steve Charles Three Sisters Theatre Company Directed by Bronwyn Steinberg There’s a memorable moment in the Three Sisters Theatre Company’s production of Miss Shakespeare when an outstanding Robin Guy transports us back to the early 17th Century with a song called Tumbling. She’s playing …