Monday, May 20, 2013

Q&A: Boris Eifman explores the life of sculptor Auguste Rodin in new “psychological” ballet by David Rockne Corrigan

Rodin's life and torrid love affair with Camille Claudel are being brought to the stage by a different kind of sculptor — celebrated Russian choreographer Boris Eifman

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Stratford’s Graham Abbey discusses his active lifestyle, and the merits of small-town living by David Rockne Corrigan

Veteran stage actor Graham Abbey has good reason to stay in shape this summer: he'll be engaging in swordfights on an almost-daily basis

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Monday, May 13, 2013

Of A Monstrous Child: A Gaga Musical asks questions about art, authenticity, and disco sticks by David Rockne Corrigan

Of A Monstrous Child is the story of Gaga's rise as it might have been seen through the eyes of performance artist Leigh Bowery, an Australian-born, London-based club promoter and artist who…

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Q&A: The Mission Business aims to put audiences in the middle of the action with Visitations at The Drake by David Rockne Corrigan

All in the name of fun, right? Visitations At The Drake Hotel, The Mission Business' latest creation, is like a cross between a video game and traditional theatre

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Saturday, May 11, 2013

‘Les Mis is my baby’: Whether it’s the West End, Broadway or film, Cameron Mackintosh is master of musicals by Robert Cushman

In 1998 in London, the Royal Family in attendance, there was a gala tribute to Cameron Mackintosh, the most successful of musical theatre producers then, now, and conceivably ever

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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company announces new season, featuring one-night only Funny Girl concert by Jonathan Forani

The Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company announced its 2013-2014 season, including a one-night only performance of Barbara Streisand's Funny Girl

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Theatre Review: Book of Mormon’s Toronto visit brings more insecurity to the stage than its Broadway counterpart by Robert Cushman

The best thing about The Book of Mormon is that it all comes right in the end. Or nearly

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Q&A: Book of Mormon star Chris O’Neill on bringing the Tony Award-winning musical to Toronto by David Berry

The musical neophyte discuss his love for the Kids in the Hall, what its like to be a misfit among the singers and why Mormons are such nice people

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Q&A: Alex Johnson brings the work of ‘cowboy’ Sam Shepard to life with The Playwright Project by David Rockne Corrigan

Alex Johnson simply wanted to direct a Tennessee Williams one-act play last year when 'suddenly a festival was happening,' and she was producing it

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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Theatre review: Falsettos shows off the power of musicals to trade in complex material by Robert Cushman

Robert McQueen’s version of a slightly older American musical, William Finn’s Falsettos, is a fine production. I call it a 'version' because Falsettos has a complicated history

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Rocky musical heading to Broadway via Germany, with Sylvester Stallone’s blessings by Jonathan Forani

Sylvester Stallone's Rocky is set to hit the stage as a Broadway musical in February 2014, following a successful run onstage in Germany

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Tony Awards: Nods to Cyndi Lauper musical Kinky Boots and Tom Hanks highlight nominations by Mark Kennedy

The Cyndi Lauper-scored Kinky Boots earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations, with Tom Hanks, who made his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, earning a nod as leading man in a play

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Theatre review: Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave is a water log of the Boxing Day tsunami by Robert Cushman

David Yee’s Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave is a talented piece of work — but it nonetheless comes close to drowning in its own ambition

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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Theatre review: In Mamet’s Race, Nigel Shawn Williams is stellar opposite a mediocre Jason Priestley by Robert Cushman

Nigel Shawn Williams, playing a lawyer in David Mamet’s Race on now at Canadian Stage's Bluma Appel Theatre, gives a virtuoso performance

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Q&A: The hipster’s puppeteer of choice, Clea Minaker by Ben Kaplan

The hands-on Salome artist talks creativity, unorthodox disciplines and why she gives Sesame Street love

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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Theatre Review: Soulpepper navigates the complex, connected sexual world of La Ronde by Robert Cushman

The only thing wrong with Soulpepper’s production of La Ronde is the billing

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Julie Taymor, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark reach settlement in copyright suit by Associated Press

Taymor filed a lawsuit in November 2011, saying her copyrighted written works were violated when she was fired last year

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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Theatre review: Sam Shepard’s True West finally works with Soulpepper’s treatment by Robert Cushman

The brothers in True West represent what the West mythically used to be, what has become of it and, by extension, what has become of America

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Friday, April 5, 2013

If it Fitz: Whether it’s taking on David Mamet or manning the Peach Pit, Jason Priestley is up for the job by Ben Kaplan

Post-Beverly Hills, 90210, Jason Priestley has directed, starred in Call Me Fitz and now takes to the stage

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Remembering Richard Griffiths: Robert Cushman’s big appreciation of a bigger talent by Robert Cushman

Girth and vulnerability were constants in the career of Griffiths who died last week in England, aged 65, personally mourned, it would seem, by everybody who either saw his work or was invol…

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Theatre review: With friends like these … Melissa Jane Gibson’s This debuts in Toronto by Robert Cushman

This is a very American play by a Canadian playwright. Or rather: This is a very American play by a Canadian playwright

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Q&A: Maria Pagés on dancing her autobiography all the way to Canada by Ben Kaplan

Pagés newest piece, an autobiography, was commissioned by Mikhail Baryshnikov and will see her touch down in Canada for the first time

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

What As I Lay Dying gains going from page to stage by Randy Boyagoda

Randy Boyagoda finds the theatre production of Willaim Faulkner's modernist classic full of raw, raging life

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

On the town with Sterling Jarvis: Song and chance by David Berry

The actor tackles tough themes in The Whipping Man, by way of The Lion King

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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Theatre review: As I Lay Dying prompts our critic to talk the talk, faulk the Faulkner by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: As I Lay Dying is a novella written by William Faulkner and now put onstage by the folks at Theatre Smith-Gilmour

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Dance review: The National Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet jetés it up a notch with energetic new production by Dana Glassman

Stamina, guts and passion are what define this company right now, and those key traits are front and centre in this heart-stopping production

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Opera Review: The Vancouver Opera fuses Mozart with Musqueam for The Magic Flute by Hadani Ditmars

Vancouver Opera presents Mozart’s opera with Musqueam words, totems regalia and reworked libretto

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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Theatre review: The folly of fate figures heavily in Innocence Lost by Robert Cushman

Innocence Lost, about the Steven Truscott case, is being given a new joint production by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and the Centaur Theatre of Montreal

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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Dance review: National Ballet’s Nijinsky soars to intense heights by Dana Glassman, Special To National Post

The National Ballet of Canada’s performance of John Neumeier’s Nijinsky is so powerful and chilling, it stays with you long after the curtain goes down.

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Theatre review: Chekhov’s fun, and other lessons of And Slowly Beauty … by Robert Cushman

A middle-aged man wins tickets to a production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and seeing it changes his life. That’s the situation in And Slowly Beauty

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Saturday, March 2, 2013

With I, Worker, Canadian Stage takes on the inevitable robopocalypse by Mike Doherty

If you’re an actor whose colleague freezes up onstage, it’s usually easy to help out with a prompt. Unless, of course, there’s hardware failure involved

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