Friday, April 4, 2014
Different TastesJim MurchisonI have to give a nod to Valerie Cardinal for my article this week because it is a bit like the feature she wrote Review Squared. I reviewed Seeds at the NAC this…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThursday, April 3, 2014
(photo by Robin Junicke)Story of HatredLove yourself – stay away!by Jason BookerThis is a three-hour, intermission-less film plopped onto a stage – not theatre. Allegedly the play is abo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 07:16PM(photo by Clifford Rhodes)Where 10 Shades of Gross Meets 40 Shades of ‘Meh’by Christian BainesParody is dead.No, really. I’m convinced this once noble comic form passed away with the g…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:16PMDiego Matamoros, Stuart Hughes (photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)A Songful Premise by Keely KwokI arrived 15 minutes early to last night’s performance of Soulpepper’s The Gigli Con…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:07PMNope, what you are seeing is not the trickery of Photoshop, it is photographer David Cooper capturing Adam Kenneth Wilson and the theatre magic that is Helen Lawrence (now on tour, and stopp…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
The Evolution of a Showby Nancy Kenny 2009 – The idea of a roller derby show comes to mind. I start researching the sport, interview people involved and writing scenes. My show …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:27PMSpeaking for the Unknownby Gaëtan L. CharleboisJennifer Ansell-Clark was born in Quebec City and grew up living by the docks with her mum, aunt, uncle and her dog Lady. From her first time …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMMaverick director Peter Sellars is bringing his production of Hercules to the COC. Here, he discusses the genesis of the original production as staged at the Lyric Opera of Chicago; returnin…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
Colour, comedy, sex and new workby TJ Dawe@TJ_DaweDoes colour blind casting do any good?Or gender blind casting? Actually, I don’t know if gender blind casting is even a thing. B…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMThe Myth of CultureThoughts on Quebec and all the restby Gaëtan L. CharleboisMany won't say it out loud, though many others will, but it has been a commonly held belief for over four decade…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMMonday, March 31, 2014
The Actor/Director Relationshipby Estelle RosenLaura Orozco is in her third year studying Psychology and Theatre Studies at McGill University in Montreal. She is currently co-technical direc…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMSunday, March 30, 2014
(centre) Lucy Crowe as Iole and Richard Croft as Hyllus in the Canadian Opera Company/Lyric Opera of Chicago (LOC) co-production of Hercules, 2011, LOC. Photo: Dan RestSold on Sellarsby…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:04AMVivisecting a brain: an exercise in flexibilityby Natalia TcherniakNatalia Tcherniak, a graduate of both the University of British Columbia and Carleton University, spends her day working in…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMSaturday, March 29, 2014
Here are the articles which have appeared about the Fringe circuit in 2014. If you would like to write about your own show, have a look at what was done last year and please contact us. For …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 11:15PM4 By 2by Beat Ricehe:she is the title of a show made up of four choreographic works. Four musicians join a total of six dancers, including Peggy Baker. In the programme it states that the pr…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:22PMEric Peterson (photo by Maxime Coté)Food for Thoughtby Jim Murchison Julie Fox's set strikes you on different levels. There are a number of lab tables filled with scientific instrument…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:12PM(photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)(Re)writing our stories. Greek myth meets time travel. by Lisa McKeown @lisammckeownWhat do you want your story to be? This is the question …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:03PM(photo by Nancy Caldwell)Dickens Classic Brought to Stageby David C. Jones@iamdavidcjonesCharles Dickens wrote The Old Curiosity Shop as an on-going story with regular instalments in 1840-41…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:00PMFusionismby Chad DembskiNorman is a Montreal original creation that has a had a healthy seven year history since its creation in 2007. Originally premiered at the National Arts Centre in Ott…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:53PMphoto by Lucetg.comGrowing up and getting oldHerzog’s 4000 Miles gets loving treatment at CentaurSarah DeshaiesLeo shows up in the middle of the night, schlepping his dirty bike and worldl…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:42PMThe Ethics of Crowd-Fundingby Cameryn Moore@camerynmooreThere aren’t many things that I remember solidly from my M.S. in Arts Administration, mostly because it was all about fairly to very…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMFriday, March 28, 2014
(photo: Frédéric Auger)Of Two Mindsby Ramya JegatheesanIf there’s one word I would use to describe this play, it’s psychedelic. This is bad news if you’re sober. Marie Brassard�…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:37PM(photo by David Hou)Dancemakers and 40by Beat RiceThis year, Dancemakers celebrates its 40th anniversary and premieres a new collaborative work, Around. The first thing you experience b…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:25PM (photo by: André Cornellier)Nothing Cavalierby Élaine CharleboisThere is no wonder why Louise Lecavalier recently won Le Grand Prix du Conseil des Arts de Montréal. From the moment …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:16PMSEGAL CENTRE 2014-2015 SEASON DREAMS BIGHighlights of new season include two World Premiere Musical Adaptations of iconic Montreal stories;Broadway legend Alan Menken; the directorial d…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:30PMSuspense Needs SurpriseJim MurchisonI saw three plays in three nights last week. The third one was Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter. Pinter for some reason is not produced an awful lot in Ott…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThursday, March 27, 2014
Simprov (photo by Caolyn Zapf, Alumnae Theatre)A Gamble and A Winby Keely KwokAlumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival has definitely earned its name. With four short plays in the span o…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:20PMWe had to slightly crop this Tim Matheson photo to fit our format (we try never to do that) but we wanted you to feel as much of the impact of it as we did. It is for Theatre at UBC's produc…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMWednesday, March 26, 2014
photo by Guillaume D. CyrWeill Nightsby Beat RiceFinally something different and original on stage in Toronto!Hailing from Quebec, L'orchestre d'hommes-orchestres are a collective of eight m…
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