Love Lies Bleeding to play in Vancouver by Marsha Lederman

Alberta Ballet piece based on Elton John songs will be staged as part of Ballet BC’s 2011-2012 season

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:01pm on April 14, 2011☆⚑

Atlantic Fringe Fest on pause for two years

Founding artistic director puts it on hiatus in order to work on anniversary of Titanic sinking; insists the popular festival will return

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:00pm on April 13, 2011☆⚑

Shane Koyczan: from bullied boy to Olympic poet by Marsha Lederman

Poet who performed at Olympics ceremony talks about bringing his childhood bullying experience to the stage

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:00pm on April 13, 2011☆⚑

Ghost Stories isn’t scary enough by J. Kelly Nestruck

A few skilled chills, but no one is going to faint with fear

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 2:46pm on April 13, 2011☆⚑

Kaeja dance focuses on anatomy - perhaps too closely by Paula Citron

Anniversary program fuses dance with video to reveal some uncomfortable truths about a mature human body

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 1:58pm on April 13, 2011☆⚑

Lynn Crosbie live-tweets Charlie Sheen; Russell Peters to co-host

Charlie Sheen brings his Torpedo of Truth to Toronto, and Lynn Crosbie is set to share it as it happens

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 1:39pm on April 13, 2011☆⚑

Lynn Crosbie live-tweets Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen brings his Torpedo of Truth to Toronto, and Lynn Crosbie is set to share it as it happens

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 1:39pm on April 13, 2011☆⚑

Ballet BC’s 25th anniversary, and a dancer’s turning point by Marsha Lederman

As Ballet BC marks 25 years as a dance company, Chinese-born dancer Wen Wei Wang remembers the magical birth of his Canadian career, dating from the same time

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:00pm on April 12, 2011☆⚑

Why is Wajdi Mouawad still silent on l’affaire Cantat?

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SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:03pm on April 11, 2011☆⚑

The Monday Q&A: Playwright Brad Fraser, no longer a bad boy by J. Kelly Nestruck

With a new play premiering in Manchester and another running in his hometown of Edmonton, he’s feeling reflective and taking chances

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00am on April 11, 2011☆⚑

Hope for Israeli-Arab co-existence dies with slaying of activist actor by Patrick Martin

‘[Juliano Mer-Khamis] always said “I can’t choose: I’m 100 per cent Jewish and I’m 100 per cent Arab”,’ Canadian filmmaker recalls

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:48pm on April 8, 2011☆⚑

To Shaw or to Shakespeare? That is the question by J. Kelly Nestruck

With Southern Ontario’s two big festivals launching new seasons, theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck offers a pop quiz to point you in the right (stage left) direction

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:30pm on April 8, 2011☆⚑

Our Class: an object lesson in the random horrors of history by J. Kelly Nestruck

The controversial play viscerally traces the many human tragedies that accompanied a massacre of Jews in German-occupied Poland

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:30pm on April 8, 2011☆⚑

Montreal theatre gig cancelled for convicted killer Bertrand Cantat

Theatre bows to public outcry over decision to give him role in an upcoming production

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 3:39pm on April 8, 2011☆⚑

Legendary French actor withdraws from festival that includes his daughter’s killer by Kate Taylor

Jean-Louis Trintignant says he hates Bertrand Cantat ‘more than anyone in the world’

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:08pm on April 7, 2011☆⚑

Polish Congress disputes Toronto theatre’s version of WWII massacre of Jews by James Adams

Group says background information for Studio 180’s ‘Our Class’ overstates number of Jews killed, among other ‘errors’

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:07pm on April 7, 2011☆⚑

Politicians denounce casting of convicted killer by Montreal theatre by Kate Taylor

Gilles Duceppe denounces the casting of Bertrand Cantat in a Montreal play

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:05pm on April 6, 2011☆⚑

NAC’s dance card for next year includes Pina Bausch by Paula Citron

Playbill for 2011-2012 includes exclusive engagements by big-name companies, highlighted by Tanztheater Wuppertal

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:00pm on April 5, 2011☆⚑

Stand by for the Flaming Lips musical. No, really by J. Kelly Nestruck

Long-rumoured project is now in early production stages, singer tells BillBoard

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:06pm on April 5, 2011☆⚑

Controversial Toronto production draws concern from Polish group by James Adams

Theatre company Studio 180 has rejected a Canadian Polish Congress request to give a CPC ‘fact sheet’ to audiences seeing Our Class

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 7:00pm on April 4, 2011☆⚑

These voices should stay lost by J. Kelly Nestruck

Ed Roy directs his excruciatingly earnest and poorly written play at a glacial pace

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:00pm on April 4, 2011☆⚑

Convicted killer to appear in Mouawad theatre production by J. Kelly Nestruck

Bertrand Cantat, who served four years in prison for the death of his partner Marie Trintignant, will be featured in a Montreal production of Des Femmes

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:14pm on April 4, 2011☆⚑

The War of the Worlds: Sound and fury signifying a good time by J. Kelly Nestruck

Don McKellar and Nicholas Campbell recreate legendary radio broadcast

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:30pm on April 1, 2011☆⚑

Schwartz’s: The Musical: Smoked meat, clichés, and a huge side of cornball by Matthew Hays

Centaur Theatre play bound to go down in the annals of seriously misguided musicals

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:30pm on April 1, 2011☆⚑

This Second City Riot is not as dangerous as it could have been by Brad Wheeler

The latest revue is less reliant on hot-button topics, but it has its hilarious moments

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:30pm on April 1, 2011☆⚑