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Month: September 2019

Blackface (again)

September 26, 2019September 26, 2019 Robin Breon

Last February, in honor of Black History Month, I linked an interesting article by Rhae Lynn Barnes that appeared in the Washington Post on the history of blackface and minstrelsy along with an article that I had written twenty years Read More …

END OF SUMMER 2019

September 17, 2019September 24, 2019 Robin Breon

Brian Jungen Friendship Centre at the AGO NIGHTFEED at the Toronto Fringe Festival WAITRESS at the Ed Mirvish Theatre THE PROMISED LAND: STEINBECK THROUGH SINGING at Soulpepper ART at Soulpepper MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Shakespeare in High Park A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S Read More …

MAN AND SUPERMAN with DON JUAN IN HELL

September 12, 2019September 13, 2019 Robin Breon

At the Shaw Festival, Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario www.shawfest.com The last time the Shaw Festival produced Shaw’s blockbuster marathon was in 2004 with a wonderful production directed by the late Neil Munro and it was very nice to see in the program 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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