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Month: November 2018

Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts

November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 Robin Breon

ESCAPED ALONE By Caryl Churchill Presented by Necessary Angel Theatre Company and Soulpepper Theatre Directed by Jennifer Tarver Set and costume design by Teresa Przybylski Featuring: Clare Coulter, Kyra Harper, Brenda Robins, Maria Vacratsis soulpepper.ca Necessaryangel.com A first time opportunity Read More …

Anna Karenina presented by the National Ballet of Canada

November 21, 2018November 21, 2018 Robin Breon

The National Ballet of Canada (Karen Kain, Artistic Director) presents the North American premiere of: Anna Karenina A Ballet by John Neumeier Inspired by Leo Tolstoy At the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts John Neumeier is the American Read More …

Robin Breon in the Globe and Mail

November 19, 2018November 26, 2018 Robin Breon

Elizabeth Renzetti’s recent column in The Globe and Mail (RIP Truth: You were fun while you lasted, 11.10.18) brought to the public’s attention the recent, mysterious disappearance  of Truth. Referencing Michiko Kakitani’s new book, The Death of Truth, Renzetti goes Read More …

Robin Breon in the New York Times today

November 6, 2018November 6, 2018 Robin Breon

From The New York Times: Rescue the Drama Book Shop A reader suggests that the theater community establish a fund to pay the rent. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/opinion/letters/drama-book-shop.html This letter (above), published in the New York Times  today, was really prompted by the Read More …

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Langston Hughes: A conscience under siege

February 1, 2023
THE LIFE OF LANGSTON HUGHES VOLUME II: 1941-1967 I DREAM A WORLD By Arnold Rampersad Oxford, 512 pages Review by Robin Breon for The Globe and Mail, February 18, 1989. February 1st kicks off Black History Month and is also...
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Hallelujah! the National Portrait Gallery of Canada is born again!

January 19, 2023
Recently, my inbox received the always informative newsletter put out by Lord Cultural Resources in Toronto which drew my attention to a recent article published in The Art Newspaper concerning the re-emergence of plans to resurrect the Portrait Gallery of...
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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Nathan Cohen Awards

December 19, 2022
By Aisling Murphy The Canadian Theatre Critics Association is pleased to announce this year’s winners of the Nathan Cohen Awards for Excellence in Critical Writing. Nathan Cohen (1923-1971) is often regarded as Canada’s preeminent theatre critic. Cohen wrote for the...
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Book Review: Forget the Alamo

November 20, 2022
FORGET THE ALAMO, The Rise and Fall of An American Myth By Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford Penguin Press, New York 2021, 386 pgs Reviewed by Robin Breon The following article is reprinted here from the current issue...
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