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Friday, September 20, 2013

Q&A: Comedian John Mulaney talks Martin Short, ‘SNL’, and what it means to be an adult by David Rockne Corrigan

Mulaney will bring his clever, self-deprecating brand of stand-up comedy to Canada next week when he performs at Toronto's version of the Just For Laughs festival, a.k.a. JFL42.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:11PM
Friday, August 30, 2013

Q&A with playwright Brad Fraser: “I have no choice but to be who I am” by David Rockne Corrigan

The outspoken playwright is back in Edmonton to direct his new play, and he's glad to be back.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:38PM
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Q&A: Stratford’s Bethany Jillard on playing Desdemona and working with her idols by David Rockne Corrigan

The 29-year-old actor started started off 2013 as Scarlett O'Hara in the first-ever theatrical adaptation of Gone With the Wind at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:12PM
Friday, August 23, 2013

Q&A: Shaw Festival’s Nicole Underhay on Newfoundland and other rocks by David Rockne Corrigan

This summer, Underhay is back for her seventh season at the Shaw Festival, where she has quickly become one of the leading ladies as well as a perennial audience favourite

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:21PM
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Q&A: Hume Baugh returns to High Park after a 30-year hiatus by David Rockne Corrigan

Hume Baugh is returning to Toronto's Shakespeare in High Park after a 30-year hiatus — he played Lysander in the very first production they did of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1983

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:55PM
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Q&A: Stratford’s Dion Johnstone has some big shoes to fill as Othello by David Rockne Corrigan

The Stratford actor, returning for his eighth season at the festival, is having the time of his life with the role of Othello in Shakespeare's play of the same name.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:30PM
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

“The most amazing party ever”: Steven Van Zandt talks about the ’60s, and his new show, “The Rascals: Once Upon A Dream” by David Rockne Corrigan

In his latest venture, The Rascals: Once Upon A Dream, a hybrid musical/rock concert, Steven Van Zandt is looking at the stage in a completely new light.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:16PM
Friday, August 9, 2013

Q&A: Shaw Festival’s Benedict Campbell doesn’t know what to do with his free time by David Rockne Corrigan

Back for his 11th season, Benedict Campbell is playing arms dealer Andrew Undershaft in G.B. Shaw's Major Barbara -- a role he first played five years ago.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:15PM

‘It’s not Shakespeare’: Sook-Yin Lee on exploring memory in ‘How Can I Forget?’ at Toronto’s SummerWorks festival by David Rockne Corrigan

For a few weeks this summer, longtime radio and TV personality Sook-Yin Lee will be bringing her hybrid theatre piece to Toronto's SummerWorks Festival, which kicks off August 9

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:12PM
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Q&A: Stratford’s Luke Humphrey on sword-fighting and Shakespeare by David Rockne Corrigan

The actor gets to play out every kid's dream this summer as the swashbuckling, sword-fighting D'Artagnan in Stratford's production of The Three Musketeers.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:10PM
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Q&A: Shaw Festival’s design director, William Schmuck, talks pencils and process by David Rockne Corrigan

Even as a teenager, Shaw Festival's William Schmuck knew that a career in costume and scenic design was his destiny.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:06PM
Monday, July 22, 2013

‘He somehow became the great champion of Canadian theatre’: A Q&A with Alon Nashman and Paul Thompson, creators of the Edinburgh Fringe-bound ‘H by David Rockne Corrigan

The play, created by Paul Thompson and Alon Nashman, played a successful run at the Stratford Festival last year, where the real-life John Hirsch was artistic director from 1981-1985.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:46PM
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Q&A: Stratford’s Kate Hennig on the importance of playing Romeo and Juliet’s Nurse earnestly by David Rockne Corrigan

Stratford Festival's Kate Hennig is one of those rare actors that exudes a passion for the theatre at all times.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:42AM
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Q&A: Diane D’Aquila, host of ‘Drunk Theatre History’ by David Rockne Corrigan

Drunk Theatre History, a boozy exploration of Canada's theatrical past, has been occurring at The Downstage, a new theatre on the Danforth.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:47PM
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

A comeback 43 years in the making: The Rascals return to the stage in Once Upon A Dream by David Rockne Corrigan

The Rascals are making a splashy return to the stage this summer with the quasi-musical Once Upon A Dream, playing at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre in August

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:00PM

Q&A: Shaw Festival’s Jeff Irving is a pretty well-rounded chap by David Rockne Corrigan

Actor Jeff Irving, who returns to the Shaw Festival for his seventh season in 2013, has proven himself to be a highly-skilled performer, adept in roles in both musicals and plays.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:08PM
Friday, July 5, 2013

Q&A: Director Jennifer Tarver waits for no one, not even Godot by David Rockne Corrigan

Acclaimed theatre and opera director Jennifer Tarver returns to Stratford for her fifth season in 2013, directing Brian Dennehy and Stephen Ouimette in Waiting for Godot.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:02PM
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Evangeline: New musical based on Longfellow poem makes it world premiere in Charlottetown by David Rockne Corrigan

Ted Dykstra's adaptation of "Evangeline" makes it world premiere at the Charlottetown Festival, in what the writer says is the "largest original Canadian musical ever produced."

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:11PM
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Doras, explored: Cinderella reigns supreme, winning seven awards including Outstanding Production by David Rockne Corrigan

48 awards were handed out at Toronto's St. Lawrence Centre on Monday night, honouring the year's best in theatre, opera, dance, musical theatre, and theatre for young audiences.

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:27PM
Monday, June 24, 2013

Actor Marla McLean talks about being a newlywed at the Shaw Festival by David Rockne Corrigan

Actors Marla McLean and Graeme Somerville were recently married. But with the Shaw season running until November, a honeymoon might have to wait

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:30PM
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Meet Romeo: Q&A with the Stratford Festival’s Daniel Briere by David Rockne Corrigan

Daniel Briere makes his Stratford Festival debut this season as Romeo in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:06PM
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

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:47AM
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

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:44PM
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

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:10PM
Monday, June 3, 2013
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

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:30PM
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…

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:57PM
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'

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:20PM
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

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:06PM
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

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:00AM
Friday, May 17, 2013

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

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:43PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards