3,074 stories by "The Charlebois Post"
Consumate Performers Weather a StormGreenblatt and Dykstra show why their work lives onby Jim MurchisonLast night 800 or 900 people braved the stormy weather and shunned Friday the 13th supe…
Michael-David Blostein (Photo credit: Daniel DiMarco)The Storm is NowCabaret proves it is currentby Stuart MunroShow girls. Authors. Gender bending. Nazis. All part of the territory in Kande…
POP-UP THEATRE: EVOLUTIONS IN STORYusing technology to create an entirely new form of storytellingjoel fishbaneI recently had the pleasure of meeting Lothar Meggendorfer " sort of. For those…
The Vancouver Opera has announced its 2012-2013 season and once again there is no shortage of surprises in the choices the company and its general director, James W. Wright, have come up wit…
Five Ways To Trick People Into Thinking You're A Good Theatre ActorDon't know how to act? Don't worry! These five indispensable tips will not only get you through your next production, they'…
Simon-izingA Pulitzer-prize winner arrives in the Capitalby Jim MurchisonThere is no arguing that Neil Simon is one of America's most successful playwrights. Some underestimate his craftsman…
(photo credit: Erick Labbé)Ex MachineryWhen the technical buries the emotionalby Beat RiceRobert Lepage is known as one of Canada's leading theatre artists; one who never fails to disappoin…
Moi, dans les ruines rouge du siècle at Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui(photo: Stéphanie Capistran-Lalonde)
The Blue Dragon setupThe Robert Lepage work opens this week in Toronto
The run of Robert Lepage's Totem, produced for the Cirque du Soleil, is not receiving pleasant reviews for it's second run at the Royal Albert Hall in two years. The Telegraph said of t…
For the second time in two weeks the London-born musical Mary Poppins has broken a Canadian box office record. This means that the touring show left Toronto's Mirvish Organization in style. …
The Tempest Which is Coming (or may already be here)Technology must be accommodated but must first be understood and tamedby Gaëtan L. CharleboisOne of my favourite comics, Patton Oswalt,…
ChoiAtwood (photo: George Whiteside)He's an alum of the company, but Ins Choi is coming in through the front door at Soulpepper, this week, as his play Kim's Convenience takes flight. It's t…
I am in Love with a dead manI have a new secret husbandby Gaëtan L. CharleboisI have often mentioned my secret husbands. Colin Firth is just one of many I have scattered around the world.…
(Courtesy: MCAM)The Montreal Master ClassMusical theatre giants teach students in Montrealby Richard BurnettThey don't call Nick Kenkel "choreographer to the stars" for nothing. The Broadway…
Just Hitting His StrideIt begins with a conversation in a kitchen...by Barbara FordLike many parents, Quincy Armorer's hoped their sons would become successful lawyers, doctors and businessm…
A GLANCE DOWN THE ROAD: WHAT TO SEE IN 2012joel fishbaneNothing like the first week of the New Year to go through all those annual traditions, like breaking your resolutions, avoiding your c…
FIVE REVIEWS OF WILDSIDE FEST SHOWS BASED ON THEIR TITLE (I HAVE NOT YET SEEN THESE SHOWS)I'm not even going to read the previews, or any captions or descriptions of the shows. I'm simply go…
The Mirvish production of Mary Poppins has shattered box office records not only for the organization but also for the nation. The production, a tour version of the London-born stage musical…
The SummerWorks Festival, in Toronto, announced today the appointment of a new general manager. Lucy Everleigh will now manage the organization which, in the last two years, has seen controv…
The Blue Dragon, opening in Toronto(photo credit: Erick Labbé)
The fairly finished promo video for Patrick Marber's Closerwhich Mnemonic Theatre is opening in Toronto February
The Two WordsA holiday and a biography bring out the pastBy Gaëtan L. CharleboisI am writing this in the waining hours of 2011, when huge numbers of Québécois (including me, my SO and o…
