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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
I recently interviewed Cherissa Richards who was heavily into her prep work prior to beginning rehearsals for Crow’s Theatre upcoming production of Red Velvet. She took time out to share some of her thoughts on acting, directing and making a living in Canadian theatre. Before Read More …
Written by Paula Vogel Directed by Joel Greenberg Featuring: Matt Baram, Jonathan Gould, Jessica Greenberg, Tracy Michailidis, Dov Mickelson, Sarah Orenstein, Nicolas Rice, Laetitia Francoz-Lévesque, Emilyn Stam and John David Williams A David Mirvish/ Studio 180 Theatre production At the Read More …
Of all the openings coming our way this very busy but not yet post-pandemic theatre season in Toronto, one play in particular has caught my attention. The Canadian premiere of Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet at Crow’s Theatre next month is Read More …
“The central image of white popular music is Elvis Presley, demanding good times and getting them and finding them all too easy.” Simon Frith, Rock and Popular Culture Forty-five years ago this month, Elvis Presley left the building for the Read More …
Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Hamlet The story of Hamlet is over several hundred years old. In Historica Danica, Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150 – c. 1220), Read More …
