Celebrating 50 Year Old Songs     Happy Together 1967, now on stage at Victoria Playhouse, Petrolia, is like jumping in a time machine and travelling back 50 years.  This musical revue offers about 58 different songs – rock ‘n’ roll, pop, country, show tunes, movie sound tracks – all from the year 1967. A cast […]

Sexy After Sixty? Want a fun night out for you and your 60-plus friends?  Go to the Victoria Playhouse in Petrolia where The Birds and The Bees is now on stage.  The laughs come one right after another in this comedy that covers sex and then romance for the somewhat older crowd. I can’t reveal […]

So Much Heart in Country Music There’s another crowd-pleaser on stage at The Victoria Playhouse in Petrolia: The Men of Country ~ From the Heart.  In a season full of box office hits and happy audiences, co-artistic directors David Hogan and David Rogers have done what they set out to do.  As Mr. Hogan told […]

From Our Old Favourite Musicals Around the Piano is a musical revue where the team at Victoria Playhouse does what they do best.  With Mark Payne at the grand piano and David Rogers singing favourites from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s songbook, they have created another wonderful show, sure to please the VPP audience. Mark Payne brings […]

Loving the Local Humour Little Miss County Fair, now on stage at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia, is a satirical salute to local country life.  Written and directed by David Rogers with music by Mark Payne, this musical covers rural life in southwestern Ontario.   The clever construction of this play is a first for this VPP creative […]

An Afternoon’s Chat The first thing Michael Learned wants to explain is her name…yes, she was named Michael by her parents:  it is her real name and her full name.  She has no middle name.  It is not a made-up name for acting.  Why did her parents give her a boy’s name?  She was the […]

A Beautiful Friendship A heartwarming, well-directed, well-acted production of Driving Miss Daisy is on stage at the Victoria Playhouse in Petrolia.  Anyone wanting to see this play should order tickets immediately, because it will sell out thanks to the star-power of Michael Learned in the role of Daisy. Michael Learned, you’ll recall, was TV’s Ma […]

Third Helping? Second Helpings taste just as good as the original dinner, but third helpings?  No thanks, they might have had a chance to go stale. Unfortunately, that’s the case with A Mighty Fortress is our Basement.  The first two shows in this franchise, Church Basement Ladies and the sequel Second Helpings were wonderful shows.  […]