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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari, cast of Family Guy to headline second JFL42 festival in Toronto by Rebecca Melnyk

Just for Laughs offshoot JFL42 is returning to Toronto this fall, and it's bringing some heavy-hitters

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Neil Patrick Harris to star in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway by Mark Kennedy

John Cameron Mitchell, who wrote the original musical, said in a statement: "Who better to pass the wig to but the finest entertainer of his generation?"

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Monday, June 17, 2013

Kaptainis: The Canadian Opera Company sales are heading south, and it’s troubling by Arthur Kaptainis

Last season the company announced its net ticket revenue at $10.9-million. In the 2012-13 report this number is $9.9-million

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Cats on cats: The stars of the new Mirvish production sat down to watch some of the Internet’s most viral videos, and this is what they thought by David Berry

The National Post's David Berry met a few of the cast members of Cats in the green room and watched a selection of cat videos. It turns out that even Cats can't resist cat videos.

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Dave Chappelle will headline Funny or Die’s 13-date Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Tour by Rebecca Melnyk, National Post Staff

The Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Tour is the first large-scale event Funny Or Die, the comedy website founded by actor Will Ferrel and comedian Adam McKay, has produced

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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Theatre Review: At Shaw Festival, one-and-a-half masterpieces by Robert Cushman

Wilde reigns on the Shaw Festival’s main stage, while George Bernard Shaw himself is confined to its smaller houses.

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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Theatre review: Stratford presents a masterful Mary Stuart by Robert Cushman

Stratford’s opening week reaches its peak with Mary Stuart, a play that, in the special dramatic world of counter-factuals, reigns supreme

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Q&A: The funnymen behind this year’s NXNE comedy panel on breaking into the biz by Rebecca Melnyk

When you start out, the only income you’re making is free beer tickets,” Ben Kerr says. “And I’m good friends with everyone on the panel so it’ll be nice to sit down and talk to th…

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Ai Weiwei will join Laurie Anderson via Skype for special performance at Luminato Festival by David Rockne Corrigan

The performance will occur on June 16 at Anderson's free show at David Pecaut Square

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Dance review: The National Ballet’s Carmen is plain in Spain by Dana Glassman, Special To National Post

The posters promise lust, betrayal and murder, but the show itself never really ignites

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Monday, June 10, 2013

Record-breaking Book of Mormon will return to Toronto in September 2014 by David Rockne Corrigan

Following a successful six-week run in Toronto, the popular musical Book of Mormon will return to Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre in September 2014

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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Theatre review: Des McAnuff’s version of The Who’s Tommy is a high-tech feast of visual storytelling by Robert Cushman

Des McAnuff’s Stratford production of Tommy is a superlative feat of visual storytelling. McAnuff takes perfectly disciplined advantage of his new technological opportunities

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Sook-Yin Lee joins Toronto’s SummerWorks festival as artist-in-residence for live multimedia piece by David Rockne Corrigan

CBC radio host Sook-Yin Lee has joined the SummerWorks Performance Festival as one of the festival's artists-in-residence

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Greta Hodgkinson does some dirtier dancing in Carmen by David Berry

The National Ballet of Canada principal dancer on really attacking the sensual role

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Q&A: John Malkovich on what he sees in Casanova, The Giacomo Variations and libertines by David Berry

John Malkovich is out to show a different side of Casanova in The Giacomo Variations — the libertine and the sensitive soul that gets lost in all the bed-bound trysts

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Monday, June 3, 2013

Stratford’s artistic director Antoni Cimolino talks about his poor sense of style and bumping into Justin Bieber by David Rockne Corrigan

Antoni Cimolino loves Stratford so much, he's stuck around for 26 years

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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Theatre Review: The Duke abides at Stratford’s Measure for Measure by Robert Cushman

It isn’t quite indestructible (Harvey Fierstein proved that a few years ago) but it’s the next best thing

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Q&A: Elvira Kurt talks fundraising, Rob Ford and being a ‘Funny Girl’ by David Rockne Corrigan

Llike a fine cheddar cheese, Kurt only gets sharper with age

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Theatre Review: Stratford is off to an exhilarating start with Romeo and Juliet by Robert Cushman

The comedy isn’t just a matter of individually humorous lines or even scenes, though Tim Carroll’s production is exceptionally adroit at discovering and delivering these

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Q&A: Alisa Palmer hopes to make Canada’s theatre community a little smaller by David Rockne Corrigan

Palmer, the newly-appointed artistic director of the National Theatre School of Canada, finished her first "audition tour" in Toronto this month, and a new crop of talented students will ent…

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Shaw Festival: Maugham’s Our Betters, Guys and Dolls prove a strong start in Niagara-on-the-Lake by Robert Cushman

Our Betters by W. Somerset Maugham, on now in a good production at the Shaw Festival, mocks the quaint belief that our own age is less moral than previous ones

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Colm Feore to host Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala by David Rockne Corrigan

The gala will honour the work of eight artists who have made an 'enduring contribution to the performing arts in Canada'

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Shaw Festival contest looks for Ontario’s ‘next great crooner’ by David Rockne Corrigan

The contest, called Luck Be A Crooner Tonight, asks participants to sing a one-minute, a cappella version of Luck Be A Lady from Guys and Dolls

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Q&A: Leah Cherniak on paying the Barber of Seville a visit by David Berry

What Sophia Coppola gets right about modernization, the tricky part of being friends with your boss and why we all need a little chaos in our lives

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Of A Monstrous Child: A Lady Gaga Musical, reviewed: A stylish, beautifully packaged look at the Poker Faced musician by Robert Cushman

Staged and performed with immense style, Of a Monstrous Child is a musical-intellectual collage that centres on, or more accurately swirls around, the figure of Lady Gaga

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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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2013-2014 BROADWAY SEASON
Jul 09: Forever Tango - Walter Kerr Theatre
Jul 24: Let It Be - St. James Theatre
Aug 08: First Date - Longacre Theatre
Aug 15: Soul Doctor: A Journey of a Rock-Star Rabbi - Circle In The Square
Sep 01: Prince of Broadway
Sep 19: Romeo and Juliet - Richard Rodgers Theatre
Sep 26: The Glass Menagerie - Booth Theatre
Oct 06: Big Fish - Neil Simon Theatre
Oct 24: The Snow Geese - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Mar 01: Rocky - Winter Garden Theatre
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