3,074 stories by "The Charlebois Post"
GOOD ADVICE AND WHERE TO GET ITPoliticians, murderers and feminists all have something to offerjoel fishbaneArtists should always keep their ears open for advice from unlikely sources, lest …
Five Comments Actors Love To Hear After a PerformanceJust saw someone you know perform in a play? Struggling to think of something to say about it? Well turn that struggle upside down into a…
Cat Kidd (Photo credit: Tristan Brand)Cat's PlayExploring new territoryby Gaëtan L. CharleboisFull disclosure: I have only seen Cat Kidd's work on YouTube. However there was a chorus of p…
What the GGs are, aren't and could (should) beThe problem is that the GG is a book award.By Frank Moher (Reprinted from Back Of The Book with permission)The Governor General's Awar…
Conrad John Schuck, John Rubinstein & Cast of MTC's Grumpy Old Men: The Musical (Photo by Leif Norman)
Julian Richings (photo credit: John Lauener)I am ThankfulSimple is beautiful but never stagnantby Beat RiceI cannot say that I have ever spent a Thanksgiving evening in the theatre. This yea…
(submitted by Ottawa editor Natasha Gauthier)NAC press release:Peter Hinton to step down as the NAC's Artistic Director of English Theatre after c…
Patrick Marber's troubling and difficult drama, Closer, presentedby Montreal's Chesterfield Productions
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Looking Closerwhen a choice of a play should have been obviousby Andrew ZadelNo matter how starkly obvious it seems to me now, the decision to mount Patrick Marber's Closer was not made over…
Hitting the WallReflecting on every Canadian critic's dilemmaby Gaëtan L. CharleboisI have been earning my living by my pen for some three and a half decades. I have never had writer's bl…
Nancy PalkThe Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre is either lucking into a really good thing this week, with a new musical adaptation of the movie Grumpy Old Men, or is going to be the butt of a l…
Guy Nadon and Sophie Desmarais (photo credit: Yves Renaud)The Unique M. Molière TNM celebrates its 60th by going back to the sourceby Rachel ZuroffLe Théatre du Nouveau Monde is curre…
To be or not to beRufus Wainwright, Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, Luc Plamondon's Starmania and the bastardization of opera by "adapted" rock musicalsby Richard BurnettThe very day al…
The ThreadNew York Times critic Christopher Isherwood wrote an article this week in which he stated it might be time for him to stop reviewing the plays of a certain playwright. He made a go…
Benoît Brière (l) and Alain Zouvi (photo credit: Michel Pilon)Boas and glitterThis Cage has big second act problemsby Isabelle-Ann Charlebois The first half is pure delight. Thirtee…
(photo credit: lucetg.com)The True Nature of Colleen CurranBy Byron TobenThe true nature of Montreal playwright Colleen Curran was revealed at the opening of her latest play,"True Nature" at…
2007 Mother's Day show at the Arts Club Revue Theatre and features Marilyn Norry in front of (left to right): Dolores Drake, Marcy Goldberg, Colleen Winton, Patti Allan, Wendy…
POETRY AND THE PROFANEExploring the lifebloodjoel fishbaneRecently, on the CBC's the Current, there was a discussion about profanity in the workplace, where Cory Scherer, a Professor fr…
FIVE COLOURS THAT WERE ABANDONED BEFORE DECIDING ON "GREEN ROOM"Legend has it that theatres used to have multiple "green rooms", with each one's walls painted differently to accommodate the …
More Than MadonnaWhen libido and midlife crisis meet head on, impartial judgement is lost.by Jim MurchisonI confess that I didn't know a lot about Speed-the-Plow, other than it was the vehic…
Justice and FaithRyerson brings energy to Miller's classicby Beat RiceThis week, Ryerson Theatre School presents Arthur Miller's Tony award winning play about the Salem witch trials, The Cru…
Mark Lang's magnificent poster art for Hyena Subpoena(read Alison Darcy's first person piece about the genesis of the show)
