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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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TALK IS FREE THEATRE

April 15, 2021
TALK IS FREE THEATRE Barrie, Ontario Arkady Spivak, Artistic Director Dinner à la Art Have you missed the combination of “dinner and a show” over the past year? Well, so have the many restaurants throughout the country who have benefited...
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THE TROUBLE WITH NORMAL: Do We Really Want to Return to Theatre’s Status Quo?

March 21, 2021
The following article appeared in Critically Speaking (Winter/ 2021), the newsletter of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association. Normalton. Is it a place where any of us would want to live? I was moved recently by an op-ed piece that appeared...
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BOOK REVIEW: I’m Gonna Say It Now, The Writings of Phil Ochs

January 26, 2021
I’m Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs Edited by David Cohen Backbeat Books www.rowman.com Where have all the folkies gone Long time passing Where have all the folkies gone Long time ago “One good song with a...
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Happy Birthday Phil Ochs

December 19, 2020
Phil Ochs would have been 80 years old today. His life and work is worth remembering and so I'm citing a review of a play I wrote for rabble.ca when The Ballad of Phil Ochs toured the country several years...
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