The time has come to acknowledge that West Side Story is a dated museum piece. The production currently playing in town is the touring version of the acclaimed 2009 Broadway revival. The New York critics went gaga. One can only assume that the show is such a sacred cow, that tunnel vision sets in. In […]
(Note: The first part of this interview is Lavery talking about her life and times. The second part is our conversation about her play Stockholm, where we are joined by choreographer Susie Burpee.) Acclaimed English playwright Bryony Lavery came to town to see the North American premiere of her blockbuster play Stockholm. Produced by Seventh […]
Everyone remembers the sponsorship scandal as rife with greed and fraud, but in some cases, funding actually got into the right hands. Ten years ago, Normand Latourelle, late of Cirque du Soleil, had an idea for a horse spectacular, and it was a sponsorship grant that gave him the money to develop a show about […]
As a writing team, George F. Kaufman and Moss Hart really understood the tenor of the times. In 1936, deep in the Great Depression, they opened You Can’t Take It With You as a balm for hard times. At the heart is the seemingly eccentric Sycamore family who live by Grandpa’s motto of only doing […]
This play is a charmer. It is also poignant and sentimental, yet laugh-out-loud funny. Sometimes we need gentle humour in our lives, and Lemoine, based in Edmonton, is not afraid to write plays that could be considered retro. All the more power to him. It’s understandable why Ted Dykstra took on the role of Zachary […]
