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More dragons, please! La Machine in Ottawa
Guest reviewer Laurie Fyffe Photo: Laurie Fyffe. La Machine with its dueling dragon and gigantic spider has come and gone, leaving in its wake a flurry of excitement over what one can do with public...
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The Shaw Festival delivers a riotous Androcles and the Lion.
Photo: David Cooper. NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — The other night Tom Pidgeon, the Ottawa Little Theatre’s longtime technical director, made a memorable contribution to the Shaw Festival’s riotous...
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The Shaw Festival’s Dancing At Lughnasa offers outstanding acting
Photo. David Cooper NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — There’s Fiona Byrne, poignantly convincing as Kate, the oldest of the sisters and a bundle of laced-in repression. She’s a school teacher, painfully...
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The Shaw Festival triumphs with Middletown
Middletown, Photo: James Cooper Middletown. Photo:David Cooper. NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — We seem to be entering a somewhat skewed universe when we attend the Shaw Festival’s production of American...
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Only Drunks and Children tell the truth: a tough-minded play fuelled by the...
Photo: Stephen Wild. Taran Kootenhayoo and Joelle Peters. Drew Hayden Taylor is a prolific playwright, also well known for his stand-up comic routines which bring out his corrosive and provocative...
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The Shaw Festival serves up a defanged Dracula
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — You know there’s something wrong with the trendy 1985 version of Dracula currently available at the Shaw Festival when you quickly start yearning for the old Hamilton Deane-John...
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Beneath: perfectly plausible horror! An excellent new work by Doug Phillips
Beneath. Charlie Ebbs This world premiere of a one act play by Doug Phillips is a work of futuristic hyper-naturalism that grabs us by the jugular because it seems perfectly logical and almost too...
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I’ll Be Back Before Midnight : this set-up of the “thriller” genre succeeds
Poster: I’ll Be Back Before Midnight I’ll Be Back Before Midnight By Peter Colley. Classic Theatre Festival, directed by Laurel Smith The big question surrounding I’ll Be Back Before Midnight is...
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Stratford tries to make a revival of Madwoman Of Chaillot take flight
Seana McKenna as the Madwoman. Photo by Cylla Von Tiedemann STRATFORD, Ont. — The stage of the Tom Patterson Theatre has become a fantasy place — of colourful jugglers, exultant wordplay and...
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Stratford’s Breathing Hole is one for the memory books.
Photo: Cylla Von Tiedemann STRATFORD, Ontario — Our first encounter with the mythic polar bear dominating the Stratford Festival’s stunning production of The Breathing Hole comes at the very...
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Burn: a good natured horror mystery that keeps us glued to the stage!
Photo: Cuepennyproductions. Burn with Tahera Mufti as Samira Burn by John Muggleton, directed by Venetia Lawless An evening that begins in Geoff Gruson’s cozy sitting room design with enormous...
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A Comedyof Errors: a new adaptation of Shakespeare in Gananoque
The Comedy of Errors. Photo Stephen Wilde Thousand Islands Playhouse opens a Shakespearean farce with a vaudeville twist. The Comedy of Errors is a madcap adventure of mistaken identity and the chaos...
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Tartuffe is not the star in this Stratford revival
Tartuffe :Tom Rooney, Orgon: Graham AbbeyPhoto: Lynda Churilla STRATFORD, Ont. — Let’s get down to the basics. The Stratford Festival’s new production of Moliere’s Tartuffe has company mainstay...
View ArticleÉvènement au Quat’Sous: À te regarder, ils s’habitueront.
Un évènement inédit Fébriles, la vingtaine d’artistes et d’artisans d’À te regarder, ils s’habitueront se préparent à prendre d’assaut la petite scène du Quat’Sous! Du 5 au 30 septembre, ils vous...
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Sudbury’s Miriam Cusson receives 2017 John Hirsch Director’s Award
Toronto, September 6, 2017 – Sudbury theatre director Miriam Cusson will receive this year’s John Hirsch Director’s Award on Tuesday, September 12 during the Zones Théâtrales festival at Ottawa’s...
View ArticleChristina Watt is performing a Cross-Canada concert.
Hello Friends, This Sunday, Sept 10, World Suicide Awareness Day, I am honored to be invited to perform in a cross-Canada concert in recognition of this day and its significance worldwide. Twenty-one...
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Gypsy: A Wonderful Revival
Photo Mark Howard.Gypsy For its first show of the season Boston’s Lyric Stage, which often produces musical theatre pieces, chose Arthur Laurents’, Jule Styne’s, and Stephen Sondheim’s Gypsy. Gypsy is...
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Le Théâtre des Quartiers d’Ivry annonce la mort d’Adel Hakim
Adel Hakim 29 AOÛT 2017 / Nous avons la tristesse de vous annoncer le décès d’Adel Hakim, survenu le mardi 29 août 2017 à Ivry. Adel est décédé chez lui, entouré de ses proches. Il n’a pas pu, comme...
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Awoken: excellent performance but the material falters…
AwokenDave Amott Awoken created and performed by Nicholas Dave Amott A monologue which becomes a sleepless delirium , bringing together sounds of familiar voices , a nightmarish confusion between...
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Zones théâtrales: Beignes, une comédie grotesque, pétillante et captivante!
Beignes, Théâtre populaire d’Acadie Le festival Zones théâtrales, évènement biennal qui met en vedette les spectacles issus des communautés francophones des régions, est de nouveau parmi nous....
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