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Hooray for Hollywood David Rogers and David Hogan have quite literally fine-tuned Hollywood Sings. They first presented this concert-style show as part of their Starbright Summer Festival at Sarnia’s Imperial Theatre in 2010. Now they’ve brought it back, bigger and better than ever, with Rogers as director and Hogan as choreographer. They have assembled an […]

Culture Clashes in a Piece of Canadian History It’s 1969. Across Canada, young doctors from Ireland are taking positions in our medical centres and hospitals. On the Prairies, young women from the Philippines arrive to work in hospitals due to the nursing shortage. And while there are culture clashes, there are also attractions between native

 Crazy Golf Comedy Fox on the Fairway is over-the-top entertainment now on stage at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia. It has lots of physical comedy, with plenty of pratfalls and slapstick, and the audience loves it. The show opens with a variety of quotes about golf, such as “Golf is a good walk spoiled”, according to Mark

Practically Perfect in Every Way The 2013 season is ending on a very high note at Huron Country Playhouse with the popular musical Mary Poppins. Not only do the many excellent singers and dancers in the show hit all the high notes, but Mary herself flies high, as well. The stage story of Mary Poppins,

Five Years Later and Still Going Strong: Sorry…I’m Canadian “Back by popular demand” is a phrase that’s often thrown around loosely in the entertainment world. But in this instance it’s absolutely true: Sorry…I’m Canadian is back at Huron Country Playhouse five years after its first visit, just because everyone wanted to see it again. On

What a Farce! When you sit down in the theatre and check out the stage with its centre entrance, two doors for slamming, four swinging doors, and a chute to the basement, you know it’s going to be a good farce. As any fan of the farce knows, people coming and going through doors and not seeing

Buddy Back at the Bend The Buddy Holly musical is so popular that this marks the third time in 10 seasons that it has been on stage at Huron Country Playhouse. It’s a crowd-pleaser with great music that will always sell out. And it serves one important purpose: it attracts new people who otherwise wouldn’t

A Weekend at the Cottage – Summer Fare for Grand Bend Take a young couple in the 20s, and another couple in the 50s and throw them together in a cottage for a weekend. That’s probably all you need to know about Weekend Comedy, now on stage at Playhouse II in Grand Bend. It’s typical

You Can Take the Girls out of the Country… Blyth Theatre goers are used to having a laugh at the expense of city folk who wander into the country and get lost. We love to laugh at urbanites who just don’t get it. Well, Yorkville ~ The Musical has turned that scenario inside out. This

Updating a Piece of Rural History To fully appreciate Beyond the Farm Show, one must know the history of the original Farm Show. In the early seventies, a troupe of Toronto actors came to rural Huron County to research and write about farm life. They volunteered to work on farms to learn more about it.