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South Pacific – 2014

Love & Prejudice on a Tropical Island South Pacific is a big musical: in true Rodgers and Hammerstein style it has everything.  There’s comedy, tragedy, war story suspense, unrequited love, and a lesson in the evils of racism.  The production, now on stage at Huron Country Playhouse in Grand Bend, does justice to this old […]

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Crazy for You

Nice Work – and they got it!   If you like musicals with amazing dancing, powerful singing and farcical comedy – and who doesn’t? – get your tickets now for Crazy for You, on Stratford’s Festival stage, as this show will sell out this summer. Crazy for You is an interesting invention.  George and Ira Gershwin’s

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King Lear

When Unconditional Love has Conditions Extended to Oct. 25.  This production of Lear is now joining the ranks of Christopher Plummer’s Tempest in 2010, and William Hutt’s farewell Tempest in 2005 as the most popular Shakespearean plays of all time at Stratford Festival. Love between parents and their offspring should be unconditional.  As soon as King Lear puts conditions

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Church Basement Ladies

Laughter of Recognition The laughter echoed throughout the sold-out house as Victoria Playhouse Petrolia marked its 2014 season opener with Church Basement Ladies.  And it is laughter of recognition, whether the audience has memories of cooking in a church basement in the sixties, or feels the discomfort of hot flashes today. The Church Basement Ladies

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