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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

National Arts Centre president reflects on theatre’s role in the national conversation by Simon Houpt

‘Theatre is supposed to be provocative. And you would hope that a theatre that is situated in the national capital would, in fact, be very important to the kind of political, social, philo…

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:14PM
Friday, July 1, 2016

Stratford vet steps into the Trumpian shoes of Matilda’s chief villain by Simon Houpt

It’s highly unlikely that the author Roald Dahl was thinking of Donald Trump when he dreamed up the impressively nasty boarding school headmistress Miss Trunchbull for his beloved 1988 nov…

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:57PM
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

The James Plays trilogy revisits history – but this time, of Scotland by Simon Houpt

The trilogy of acclaimed Scottish history plays begins its only North American engagement at Toronto’s Luminato Festival on Thursday

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:20PM
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Step into the global arms trade in Luminato’s Situation Rooms by Simon Houpt

Situation Rooms is equal parts documentary film, video game and participatory theatre

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:04PM
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Soulpepper breathes new life into controversial Colm Toibin play by Simon Houpt

Production makes a compelling argument for Colm Toibin’s The Testament of Mary to live in the theatre

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:32AM
Friday, January 29, 2016

Alan Cumming on his Toronto cabaret show and a nude N.Y. photo shoot by Simon Houpt

Star of stage and screen brings his cabaret show to Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre in a show filled with singing, showbiz stories and a little bit of his soul

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:15AM
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

David Rakoff’s single work of fiction to get one-night-only staged reading by Simon Houpt

The late, great writer will become a produced playwright of sorts when Studio 180 mounts a reading of his only work of fiction, Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:17PM
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