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325 stories from news.nationalpost.com

Come From Away is an 'outstandingly sensible' production that couldn't have a better ending by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: All these characters, plus the subsidiary ones that all the actors take on, add to a mosaic of people coming together and recoiling from differences

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 1:42pm on November 29, 2016[SHARE]

The show must go on: How New York's theatre scene responded to the election of Donald Trump as president by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: I have been visiting New York for 50 years, and have never fallen out of love with it. Right now, I love it more than ever

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 7:18pm on November 28, 2016[SHARE]

In Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses, American family drama meets the Theatre of the Absurd by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: This isn't one of those American plays in which family members yell at one another while pulling skeletons out of cupboards

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 5:18pm on November 24, 2016[SHARE]

Lin-Manuel Miranda steps up to the challenge of writing songs for the Disney animated movie musical Moana by Bob Thompson

Like the Hamilton tunes, Miranda says his Moana songs blend a modern musical sensibility with an appropriate place in time

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:31pm on November 22, 2016[SHARE]

Unsex me here: How lingering gender norms conspire to make Lady Macbeth a villain by Ashley Csanady

Ashley Csanady: But what if Lady Macbeth isn't one of Shakespeare's greatest villains, but a hero in her own right?

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:31pm on November 22, 2016[SHARE]

Come From Away: A step-by-step guide to building a Broadway play in Canada by Alison Broverman & Brice Hall, Special To National Post

As told by the the married writing team of David and Irene Hein, the creators of Come From Away, a new musical at the Royal Alexandra Theatre until January 2017

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:24am on November 22, 2016[SHARE]

On appreciating the delightfully dorky things that David Blaine can do, all with a straight face by Calum Marsh

Calum Marsh: I'm beginning to understand that David Blaine's resounding lack of cool is precisely his appeal

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 2:31pm on November 18, 2016[SHARE]

Fiddling with the past: The secrets of Scottish music are revealed and revelled in Nova Scotia by Craig S. Smith, The New York Times

In Cape Breton's close-knit Gaelic communities, the traditions were passed from generation to generation

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 8:36pm on November 15, 2016[SHARE]

Based on an old Canadian legend, the Young Centre's Chasse-Galerie is irresistible by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: As the plot proceeds and conflicts get underway, the dancing takes on real dramatic power

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 8:36pm on November 15, 2016[SHARE]

Jurgita Dronina fits James Kudelka's Cinderella choreography like a glass slipper by David Berry

'His musicality is so precise " he has really thought through what each music piece represents, and found ways to express that'

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 7:06pm on November 11, 2016[SHARE]

This Is The Point changes the way we see people with disabilities " especially when it comes to love and sex by Alison Broverman, Special To National Post

'We have to take a lot of time with technology, and rather than resist that we've decided to use it. So the audience just has to wait'

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 7:06pm on November 11, 2016[SHARE]

Choreographer Bill Coleman develops the darkness in Canadian Stage's Dollhouse by Alison Broverman, Special To National Post

'It began as a thought of someone affected by their environment, but as I began to grow it, it became more biblical'

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 7:06pm on November 11, 2016[SHARE]

Cuisine & Confessions is 'a culinary Cirque du Soleil,' in which the acrobatics are 'the most important ingredient' by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: They execute their maneuvers with charmingly casual grace, and some of the feats are breathtaking. They put the audience in a pleasurable trance

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 5:48pm on November 8, 2016[SHARE]

David Yee plays his own protagonist in Factory Theatre's Acquiesce, with humour and 'an appealing wariness' by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: The accomplished actor and playwright presents Acquiesce, the opening production in Factory Theatre's season of plays by authors of colour

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 5:48pm on November 8, 2016[SHARE]

Queen's University stage production scrapped over 'oppressive' choice of white woman to play Othello by Graeme Hamilton

Queen's students began taking to social media to denounce the Othello casting, and director Maggie Purdon said the criticism 'started to blow up' this week

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:42pm on November 4, 2016[SHARE]

The Coal Mine Theatre's Breathing Corpses is a genuine seat-clutcher and a puzzle by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: It closely resembles Harold Pinter's Betrayal, which moved steadily back in time to explain, or at least illuminate, its initial situation

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:06pm on November 3, 2016[SHARE]

Tomson Highway marks his return to Toronto theatre with The (Post) Mistress, a cabaret act dressed as a play by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: Tomson Highway returns with a more modest work, a show whose principal revelation is that he is a first-rate piano player

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:04pm on October 25, 2016[SHARE]

The Canadian Opera Company's production of Handel's Ariodante is full of Shakespearean echoes by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: It offers equally glorious singing, plus inspired and meticulous staging by the British director Richard Jones

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:04pm on October 25, 2016[SHARE]

An unsparing performance moves Master Harold while All But Gone displays an iron control by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: Beckett is very much about obedience, while a play by Athol Fugard rooted in autobiography may move you to tears

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:04pm on October 18, 2016[SHARE]

Do. Re. Mi … Oh my: How the modern opera star went from bari-chunk to bari-hunk by Catherine Kustanczy, Special To National Post

Catherine Kustanczy: With a focus on their own personal branding, opera singers have moved beyond the stage to become social media stars in their own right

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 3:08pm on October 14, 2016[SHARE]

'A continuous symphony of speech': Justin Tannahill's Concord Floral is a magnetic piece of theatre by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: We respond to the writing, though, less for its own sake than as one element in a tightly-wound theatrical experience

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 8:04pm on October 11, 2016[SHARE]

Soulpepper's Hosanna revival is beautifully orchestrated, but can't help being old-fashioned by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: It withholds information so that it can have a second act while devoting most of its first to having the characters tell each other what they already know

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:20pm on October 5, 2016[SHARE]

How the Shaw Festival's Tim Carroll chose the 2017 program, which offers plenty of intrigue by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: The Shaw's strength, like Stratford's, has always been its comparative permanence

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:07pm on October 4, 2016[SHARE]

Sounding off about Nothing On: Despite hilarity on the way, Noises Off lacks shape and purpose by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: Nothing On is an old-school British caper revolving, at a furious rate, around doors and underwear and sardines

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:07pm on October 4, 2016[SHARE]

Internet star Grumpy Cat to join Broadway's Cats, but is reportedly not thrilled about it by Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press

Grumpy Cat has become an online phenomenon with 8.7 million Facebook followers and a career selling merchandise of all kinds

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 5:46pm on October 3, 2016[SHARE]
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