10 stories by "Mike Doherty, Special To National Post"
Mike Doherty: Finding one's own voice as a tap artist entails figuring out what, and who, have come before. Young dancers have much of the form's history at their fingertips
Jimmy Carr: 'If you start drawing the line of what people can and can't joke about, it becomes very difficult because someone's offended by everything'
'It's disconcerting to emerge when it's over and then have to deal with the reality of speaking directly to someone, without being issued instructions'
Winterson will share The Gap of Time, which revisits The Winter's Tale, while Jacobson's Shylock Is My Name will be his release
'There's drama, there's humour, there's Hitler " it just goes everywhere'
This greatest hits sets by comedy's biggest-ever troupe may even have added something " a dollop of affection
Outside on Yonge Street, the wind chill is -23C, but you'd never know it in the Panasonic Theatre, where director Sergio Trujillo is showing a group of male dancers how to seductively remove…
On Nov. 25, the members of Monty Python (minus Graham Chapman, who died in 1989), sold out the 20,000-seat O2 arena in London in 43.5 seconds " 11 minutes faster than Iron Maiden
Many an entertainer has climbed ruthlessly to the top, but only Eddie Izzard would compare his career strategy to the Battle of Austerlitz
Long known as the last bastion of male chauvinism in the arts, comedy is starting to be run by women. Or so says Sarah Silverman