A Gripping Story Well Told The Festival Players of Prince Edward County’s location under the stars at The Eddie Hotel & Farm is in sharp contrast to the story being told. While theatregoers sit in comfortable folding chairs in the open air on a grassy field with the sun setting behind them, Beneath Springhill leaves […]
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Leisa Loves her Audiences Most performers thank their audiences and tell them how much they love them. However, sometimes you get the feeling that their sincerity is questionable. But not with Leisa Way. You know that Leisa just loves her audiences. You can feel it. So it’s no surprise that she is among the first
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A Halloween Haunting Like a few other theatre companies, Tweed & Co. has decided to reach out to its audience with an audio play during these Covid-19 times. What better time than Halloween to make a ghostly audio play available? Trish Black, a member of Tweed & Co. plays herself in this production. The story
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Making Sense of the Past: An Atypical World War II-Era Drama Yellow Bellies is a compelling three-part audio drama set during World War II featuring the experiences of Mennonite conscientious objectors and reactions from the community. It is currently available online through Theatre of the Beat. We’ve all heard stories of war heroes who died
The Sun’ll Come Out Tomorrow at the Grand Theatre The evening of October 23, 2020, would have been the grand opening of the 20-21 season, their fiftieth, at the Grand Theatre, London. Due to COVID-19, they’ve had to rebrand it as their intermission year. To celebrate this milestone, they’ve put their Grand Un-Opening Night online,
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Getting to Know You The Orillia Opera House’s Professional Theatre company will go down in history as the first theatre to reopen in Ontario after closing for the pandemic. But lest you think the pandemic is over in Orillia and everything’s back to normal, you have another think coming. We followed all the face mask
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Masterful Handling of the Truth Last summer, Drayton Entertainment brought us 12 Angry Men, a 1957 drama where jury members are trying to determine the truth. This year, Drayton is presenting A Few Good Men, a 1986 courtroom drama, also seeking truth. With 12 Angry Men, I said that director Marti Maraden deserved credit
Note: This review was written in February 2020, before Hamilton was closed due to Covid. It is now back on stage at The Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto February 22 to August 20, 2023. History Made Modern, Warts and All The more things change, the more they stay the same. Politicians were ruthless, aggressively ambitious,
Indigenous Story of Life and Death Honour Beat, currently on the Spriet Stage at London’s Grand Theatre, shows some of the cultural differences between Indigenous people and settlers (and descendants) in Canada. But more importantly, it shows how similar families are. Those who have held a vigil at the bedside of a dying parent will
Rebecca Northan Shines with Audience Interaction Reviewed by Mary Alderson In a one-woman show, improv expert Rebecca Northan shares the stage with a dozen or so audience members she conscripts to complete the cast. Apparently, no one can say no to Northan as she gets full cooperation from the audience members, some with surprisingly good
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