All stories by Richard Ouzounian on BroadwayStars

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Buyer and Cellar is pure pants-splitting entertainment: review by Richard Ouzounian

Christopher J. Hanke displays comic virtuosity as an unemployed L.A. actor who lands a job looking after Barbra Streisand’s junk.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:47PM

An actor's love-hate-love relationship with yoga by Richard Ouzounian

Paul McQuillan, who started his career onstage in Beauty and the Beast, has written a book, I Hate Yoga: And Why You'll Hate to Love It Too

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:14PM
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Sextet is best new play this year: review by Richard Ouzounian

Morris Panych’s Sextet is a wonderfully entertaining look at six sexually mismatched musicians trapped in a motel during a blizzard.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:20PM

Canadian Stage 2015-16 season stretches programming envelope by Richard Ouzounian

Upcoming productions include work from South America and Europe, as well as chamber opera and dance side by side with drama.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00AM
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Christopher J. Hanke stars in Buyer & Cellar in Toronto by Richard Ouzounian

Actor had lots to learn about Barbra Streisand when he took role of out-of-work actor who runs mall underneath her estate.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00PM

Morris Panych's Sextet mixes sex and classical music by Richard Ouzounian

Playwright known for The Overcoat and 7 Stories says sex and music both connect us to something higher.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AM
Monday, November 10, 2014

Why actors love The Motherf**ker With the Hat by Richard Ouzounian

Melissa D'Agostino of Bob Kills Theatre, who stars with Ted Dykstra, says Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play is about ‘emotional truth’ of relationships

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:53PM
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Actress Alison Pill deals with Newsroom's final deadline by Richard Ouzounian

Starting on Sunday night, at 9 p.m. on HBO, the third and final season of The Newsroom will come and go in six episodes.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AM
Friday, November 7, 2014

Toronto duo's musical part of La Jolla Playhouse season by Richard Ouzounian

Come From Away, by Irene Sankoff and David Hein of My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, about Gander, Newfoundland's response to Sept. 11.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:01PM

Michael C. Hall killing it as Hedwig on Broadway by Richard Ouzounian

He never dreamed he would get to play the lead in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but now the star of TV’s Dexter is bringing an air of darkness to the rock-and-rolling role.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM
Thursday, November 6, 2014

A hybrid version of Steinbeck’s classic by Richard Ouzounian

Of Mice and Men’s recent Broadway revival opens in Toronto cinemas Thursday as a play filmed for the silver screen by National Theatre Live

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Las Vegas, Michael Jackson: One, Cirque du Soleil: by Richard Ouzounian

Whether you’re watching precision break-dancing, trampoline artistry or jaw-dropping acrobatics, Michael Jackson: One fuses the magic of the star and the circus in a beautiful spectacle

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:07PM

Spoon River a triumph of the spirits by Richard Ouzounian

Soulpepper’s show, based on a cycle of poems about the inhabitants of a small-town cemetery, is a magical, musical celebration of the power of theatre.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:14AM
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Amy Poehler on comedy, pain and the truth in all its messy splendour by Richard Ouzounian

The comedian who became famous on Saturday Night Live has written Yes Please, a no-nonsense autobiography.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AM

Soulpepper unveils 2015 theatre season by Richard Ouzounian

Full-scale presentation of Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss is a highlight.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Soulpepper Theatre’s Spoon River will awaken your soul by Richard Ouzounian

Voices from beyond the grave hard to ignore when you’re in a cemetery with a freshly dug grave in front of you.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:06PM
Friday, October 31, 2014

Why Tom Stoppard remains the top living playwright by Richard Ouzounian

Exclusive Canadian interview: As his plays have grown increasingly complex, Stoppard has planned them less and less methodically.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:30PM

The Real Thing: Review by Richard Ouzounian

Tom Stoppard’s examination of the ways of the heart falls flat in a sterile New York production that ignores the script’s own inner music.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:59AM
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Shaw Festival unveils 2015 cast by Richard Ouzounian

The flagship Shaw play of the season is Pygmalion; Patrick McManus and Harveen Sandhu will star as Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:36PM
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Fewer Halloween shows in Toronto, but they’re good by Richard Ouzounian

Toronto’s Red Sandcastle Theatre Halloween show has bits of Bride of Frankenstein,Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Beast with Five Fingers

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:21PM
Friday, October 24, 2014

Alcina: review by Richard Ouzounian

Never mind the plot, Opera Atelier’s Alcina is all about fabulous singing and inventive staging.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:37AM

Toronto actor Clyde Alves revels in Broadway role by Richard Ouzounian

New York a great stage for former Torontonian Clyde Alves, star of hit revival On the Town

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AM

Juliette Binoche talks about A Thousand Times Good Night by Richard Ouzounian

French actress Juliette Binoche on new Erik Poppe movie about a war photographer in Kabul, and how it makes her look at life.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AM
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Belles Soeurs entertaining but needs more bite: review by Richard Ouzounian

Astrid Van Wieren and rest of cast shine in musical version of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-soeurs.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:30PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

When will Jeffrey Tambor peak? by Richard Ouzounian

Now 70, character actor is enjoying a fresh tide of critical and popular acclaim for his role as transgendered Mort/Maura in the hit web series Transparent. He brings his own one-man show, A…

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00AM

Patricia O'Callaghan indulges love of Leonard Cohen at Global Cabaret Festival by Richard Ouzounian

Annual musical showcase put on by Soulpepper Theatre gives performers a chance to fulfil 'musical dreams,' cabaret singer says.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM
Monday, October 20, 2014

Stratford Festival offers many familiar faces by Richard Ouzounian

A combination of stage veterans and emerging talent to take the stage this coming season.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AM
Friday, October 17, 2014

James Ellroy’s writing shaped by history of violence by Richard Ouzounian

The murder of two women, one James Ellroy’s mother, shaped early psyche of the famed writer of L.A. Confidential and the new novel Perfidia.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:46AM

Helen Lawrence promises more than it delivers: Review by Richard Ouzounian

Perfect cast of 12 do their best in overly complicated plot in show that’s part film noir, part live action theatre.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:04AM
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Canadian Stage reports another surplus by Richard Ouzounian

Theatre company had record attendance for shows like Venus in Fur and Needles and Opium

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:08PM

Anne and Alice both part of Charlottetown Festival season by Richard Ouzounian

Adam Brazier's first season as artistic director includes Anne of Green Gables, Stratford's Alice Through the Looking Glass and a remount of Evangeline.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:59PM

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