3,074 stories by "The Charlebois Post"
Six Canadian playwrights are on the shortlist for the Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize, the richest award in Canadian theatre.The playwrights are: Robert Chafe, Newfoundland; Jasmine D…
After rumours throughout the summer and hints dropped by nearly everyone involved, it has been announced that the Stratford production of Jesus Christ Superstar will be heading to Broadway i…
Cat Kidd and Geoff Agombar in South AfricaThe Smiling White MiceGoing to Africa to find a way homeby Alison DarcyIt was such a strange thing to see Cat and Geoff in SA.They had recently been…
Ottawa's Plosive Production's Speed-the-Plow,David Mamet's brutal satire about Hollywood(which he wrote before losing his mind)
Distancing DevicesMainstream theatres have perpetuated a myth: that typical audiences don't want to be shaken up.By Gaëtan L. CharleboisTwo decades ago I went to review a play thinking it…
Raoul Bhaneja in Hamlet SoloNicolas Mignard's portrait of MolièreHamlet (solo) has toured the country getting raves everywhere it has gone. The phrase "tour de force" is a tired cliché...e…
Kellock's cerealMontreal director Amanda Kellock finally hits the big stage with Centaur world premiere of Colleen Curran's True Nature by Richard BurnettI have Montreal theatre d…
The ThreadThe Charlebois Post - Canada has now been online one month since its official launch. Slowly, the content, style and format of the site is being shaped by editors and contributors …
(Photo credit: Cylla von Tiedemann)Bigger Than HistoryRick Miller's second in his series of solos delivers us from evilby Adèle CharleboisBigger Than Jesus is much more than just your avera…
Art and the Public LifeValuable question! Subsequent discussion...joel fishbaneThis past Tuesday the Institute for Public Life of Arts and Ideas held a roundtable discussion on the "public l…
Top 5 Parts for Little Person Actors.There's an old saying in theatre, "there are no small parts, only small actors". But that's not exactly true, is it? First of all, the expression itself …
Wherein Our Intrepid Critic Gets to See a Show He Really Wanted to SeeWhen real life, comedy and theatre collideby Gaëtan L. CharleboisThe way the Charlebois Post - Montreal covered the F…
(Photo courtesy of Trudy Lee Photography)The Truth in True Love LiesHaving performed in Fraser's works, an artist finds directing him is a case of finding balanceKate NewbyWhen approached by…
The gorgeous poster art for the upcoming double-bill at Edmonton Opera.(We don't know about you but we may have nightmares about that scary-ass clown.)
The 6th Annual Montreal Improv FestivalOctober 12-16, 2011Montreal Improv Theatre3713 St. Laurent#202 Montreal once again manages to pack one more festival into the calendar with MPROV:…
The trailer for Volcano's Another Africa, the hit from Luminato isopening this week atCanadian Stage. The vid's a beaut.
I ConfessReflections on Springer, reality TV, tragedy and theatreBy Gaëtan L. CharleboisI am going to be attending and reviewing Dan Bingham's play, Adopt This!, later this week. Bingham'…
Colleen Blake, executive director of the Shaw Festival for the last 17 years will be retiring in spring 2012.Shaw Press Release: Shaw Festival Executive Director to retire from The Shaw in e…
Perhaps no character in opera is more poignantly tragic that Gilda, in Verdi's Rigoletto (opening this week at COC). Michael Levine's sketches for the production in Toronto tell the story of…
The importance of being OscarWilde, Elvis, Thornton, Constance and MontrealBy Richard BurnettOscar Wilde once famously noted, ""The only duty we owe history is to rewrite it." But surel…
Tropical AnnaA play returns to Montreal - en françaisby Rachel ZuroffMontreal's Le Rideau Vert is currently putting on the play Anna sous les tropiques. Originally written in Englis…
Réjean Vallée, Jean-Jacqui Boutet, Denis Lamontagne and Kevin McCoy(Photo: Vincent Champoux)Reflections...Another (very different) production of Twelfth Night in Canadaby Isabelle-Ann Char…
The ThreadEverything opened this week and as much as it is nice for the theatre community to sing-We-Are-The-World-hold-hands-and-sway, the fact is that people have limited amounts of money …
THOSE SCHOOL DAYS, VOL 4The thrilling conclusion to my life in theatre school…joel fishbaneDuring my second year of theatre school, I read "True and False", a book by David Mamet that shou…
