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Continue reading →: New Ideas – Week One reading & program
So now that we’re all recovering from St. Patrick’s Day festivities, here’s a run-down of Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival Week One reading and program from yesterday afternoon. In the noon reading, Eating Pomegranates Naked, by Andrea Scott and directed by Kimberly Radmacher, a group of 30-something friends talk about…
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Continue reading →: Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival 2012 up & running
Hey all, be sure to catch Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival (NIF) 2012 program, on now up in the studio. The Week One program opened on Wednesday and continues to Sunday afternoon, including a one-time reading on Saturday at noon. For the full Week One program and other details, check…
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Continue reading →: Xtra! Happy Woman Interview
Originally posted on NightwoodTheatre: Check out the Xtra! interview with Maev Beaty and playwright Rose Cullis as they chat about The Happy Woman. What an interview: I now know the Polynesian origin of the word taboo. The Happy Woman runs until March 24th. Get your tickets!
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Continue reading →: A haunting Long Day’s Journey
You know what? It’s okay to laugh during a Eugene O’Neill play. Sure, the themes of family dysfunction, addiction and despair are emotionally taxing – for the actors and the audience – but it’s not all grim and gloom. There are some genuine giggles to be had – and not…
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Continue reading →: Frances & Marybeth @ Factory Theatre Studio
Hey, theatre fans – especially New Ideas Festival (NIF) fans, and especially if you like to follow the genesis of a play that starts out as a short play or one-act and grows… Neale Kimmel’s play Frances and Marybeth is on right now at the Factory Theatre Studio! Just a…
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Continue reading →: T.V. cross-over episodes I’d like to see
What with all the intensity on Lost Girl lately, I turned my thoughts to the lighter side of t.v. and came up with some cross-over episode ideas. See what you think… Rizzoli and Isles with Republic of Doyle: I think this would be best set in St. John’s, with our…
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Continue reading →: Heartbreak & hard choices on Lost Girl
Okay, so I’ll try to keep the spoilerage to a minimum – but be warned. I just may get carried away and I’m still processing the hugeness of recent developments, as well as dealing with that lost hour of sleep from Saturday night. The Showcase synopsis forewarned of pre-war casualties…
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Continue reading →: Movie, music & monologues
Finally got out to see Monsieur Lazhar yesterday afternoon at the TIFF Bell Lightbox – and was so glad I did. What a beautiful, tender – and also funny and frank – film! Monsieur Lazhar comes to the school as a replacement teacher under tragic circumstances. As he works with…
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Continue reading →: Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival 2012 opens next week!
Get your calendars out, folks – it’s New Ideas time! Alumnae Theatre Company’s annual New Ideas Festival (NIF) of short plays and readings opens in the Alumnae studio next week on Wed, Mar 14 and runs until Sun, Apr 1 – with a new program of short plays every week.…
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Continue reading →: Worlds collide in The Happy Woman
I was out for the opening of Nightwood Theatre’s production of The Happy Woman (by Rose Cullis, directed by Kelly Thornton) last night at the Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs – and what an opening! The place was packed with friends and family of the cast, agents, actors, other assorted theatre-related…
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