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Monday, July 18, 2011

Theatre Review: Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking by Robert Cushman

“I like to quote fictional characters,” says Carrie Fisher, after citing Sherlock Holmes on the amount of information it’s possible for one person to hold in his head “because I’m …

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

Friday, July 15, 2011

Theatre Review: Stratford’s The Little Years dazzles with a discourse on Time by Robert Cushman

John Mighton’s The Little Years may well be the best new play ever presented at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. If, that is, it truly counts as new, as it’s actually a revised versio…

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:30PM

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Theatre Review: The Admirable Crichton by Robert Cushman

The two newest productions at the Shaw Festival are both of British plays about failed social experiments. In George Bernard Shaw’s On the Rocks, a prime minister tries to ram through what…

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:01PM

Monday, July 11, 2011

Theatre Review: On the Rocks by Robert Cushman

The central character of George Bernard Shaw’s On the Rocks (1933) is Sir Arthur Chavender, the Liberal head of a British coalition government. Outside 10 Downing Street — and, we gather…

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:22PM

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Theatre Review: The Glass Menagerie is magnificently moving by Robert Cushman

Ontario theatre is throwing Tennessee Williams a great 100th birthday party. On the heels of the Shaw Festival’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, wonderful for its sustained firepower, Soulpepper gi…

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:00AM

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Theatre Review: Hugh Jackman in Concert by Robert Cushman

The man has warmth, charm and bags of talent. But there’s still something very forced and insubstantial about Hugh Jackman in Concert. It starts — well, actually it starts with the audie…

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:59PM

Monday, July 4, 2011

Theatre Reviews: The Winter’s Tale & The Tempest by Robert Cushman

Ben Jonson, Shakespeare’s friendly (or so we hope) rival among the great Jacobean playwrights, once wrote disdainfully of authors who “beget Tales, Tempests, and suchlike drolleries” a…

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:00PM

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Theatre Review: 9 to 5 The Musical by Robert Cushman

Among the credits in her program bio, one of the cast of 9 to 5 The Musical lists an appearance in Hair The Musical. Gee, I can’t remember when Hair wasn’t a musical. But maybe this nome…

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:00AM

Monday, June 27, 2011

Robert Cushman on the Dora nominees by Robert Cushman

June 27 sees the 32nd annual presentation of the Dora Awards. In past years, I’ve had malicious fun casting an eye over the nominees, wondering what could possibly explain who’s been inc…

SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:08PM

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