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Month: April 2022

Culture Under Fire: Protecting Ukrainian Heritage

April 30, 2022May 4, 2022 Robin Breon

The war in Ukraine has seen the destruction of industrial sites, residential neighborhoods, farmland, hospitals and schools. And although the loss of human life has been devastating there is also the increasing vulnerability of the cultural heritage sector, that is Read More …

Of Zelensky and Havel: Ukraine’s Heroic Leader Recalls Another Artist-Turned-President

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022 Robin Breon

(The following article is re-posted (slightly amended) from Critically Speaking (Spring 2022), the newsletter of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association.) It is spring in Kyiv and right now there is a playwright who is trying to capture the horrific events as Read More …

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MAHABHARATA at the SHAW FESTIVAL

March 17, 2023
A Why Not Theatre production in association with Barbican, London, commissioned and presented by the Shaw Festival Mahabharata: Part One (Kharma) and Part Two (Dharma)  Written and adapted by Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes using poetry from Carole Satyamurti Directed...
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Hamilton plays Toronto

March 4, 2023
No, I'm not talking about a matchup between the Tiger-Cats and the Argos. This is all about the award winning mega-hit musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda that has finally returned to Toronto and is now playing the Princess of Wales theatre...
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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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