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 …
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 …
(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 …
With an opening zinger worthy of George S. Kaufman, one of Jesse Green’s theatre critic predecessors at the New York Times, his recent review of The Music Man, a Broadway revival starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, began: “There comes Read More …
In the run-up to Steven Spielberg’s now Oscar nominated film re-make of the musical, West Side Story (streaming on the Disney channel), a hubbub of concerned opinion pieces began to appear in the press and online media regarding the historically Read More …
