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Continue reading →: Update: cowbell is back!
Hey all – A quick update to confirm that, after being on hiatus since mid-July, the cowbell blog is back in business! My contract at Nightwood Theatre wrapped up on Friday, and I’m now settling back into freelance copy editing and writing, as well as helping out with marketing at…
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Continue reading →: Power, connection & identity in the potent, magical, eye-opening Watah Theatre Double Bill“A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music.”—The Watah Theatre The Watah Theatre presents a Double Bill of biomythographies, including an excerpt reading of d’bi.young anitafrika’s Once Upon A Black Boy and the world premiere of Najla Nubyanluv’s I Cannot Lose My Mind, running in…
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Continue reading →: Valentines through the ages & the private face of grief in Shotgun Juliet’s intimate, tender JewelPip Dwyer in Jewel. Photo by Jackie Smulan. Shotgun Juliet opened its production of Joan MacLeod’s Jewel, directed by Matthew Eger, to a packed house at Red Sandcastle Theatre last night. Jewel was inspired by the sinking of the Ocean Ranger oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine’s…
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Continue reading →: Foul treachery, sweet slithering manipulation in Shakespeare Bash’d compelling, accessible Richard IIIJames Wallis in Richard III. Photo by Kyle Purcell. Shakespeare Bash’d opened its 2018 season to a sold-out house at the Monarch Tavern last night with a classic tale of murderous machinations and royal double-crosses with its production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, directed by Julia Nish-Lapidus with associate director Megan Miles.…
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Continue reading →: Putting the spotlight on who gets to tell the story in the hilarious, gut-wrenching, deeply moving BANG BANGKaren Robinson, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Richard Zeppieri, Jeff Lillico & Sébastien Heins. Set design by Nick Blais. Costume design by Lindsay Dagger Junkin. Lighting design by Oz Weaver. Photo by Joseph Michael Photography. What happens when a white playwright’s play, inspired by the shooting of an unarmed young Black man…
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Continue reading →: Ghosts of the past reveal the sins of the Father in the haunting, sharply funny, compelling OmissionAndrea Irwin, Thomas O’Neill, Evan Walsh & Gillian Reed. Costume design by Margaret Spence. Set design by Teodoro Dragonieri. Lighting design by Wes Babcock. Photo by Bruce Peters. Peter denied Jesus three times and yet became the Rock upon which the Catholic Church was built—its first Pope. Cardinal Matias Iglesias…
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Continue reading →: The meaning of life, death & the role of a lifetime in the moving, tender & funny Or Not To BeAndrew Robinson, Shawn DeSouza-Coelho & Karen Scobie in Or Not To Be—photo by Vic Finucci I was back at Red Sandcastle Theatre last night, this time for Glass Hammer Productions’ presentation of Andrew Batten’s Or Not To Be, directed by Julia Haist. I saw the premiere at Alumnae Theatre’s New…
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Continue reading →: NSTF: Giving the last word where last word’s due in the startling, sharply pointed, satirical JONNOJason Deline and Erica Anderson in JONNO. Costume design by Christina Urquhart. Set design by Chandos Ross. Lighting design by Steve Vargo. Photo by Dahlia Katz. Rabbit in a Hat Productions presents Alix Sobler’s JONNO, directed by Paul Van Dyck for the Toronto Fringe Next Stage Theatre Festival, running now at…
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Continue reading →: The inescapable ghosts of the past meet tricks of the memory in the haunting, complex The Late Henry MossAnthony Ulc in The Late Henry Moss. Set design by Adam Belanger. Costumes by Janelle Joy Hince. Lighting by Steve Vargo. Photo by Curt Sachs. Unit 102 Actors Co. takes us to an adobe shack in the middle of nowhere New Mexico in their intimate production of Sam Shepard’s The…
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Continue reading →: Pun & games for kids of all ages, with hilarious panto good times, in RaPUNzelAmelia Welcher as RaPUNzel (top) and Kristen Foote as Bunny (bottom)—photo by Burke Campbell Red Sandcastle Theatre’s Panto Players are back at it again with more pantomime shenanigans in RaPUNzel, written by Jane A. Shields and Rosemary Doyle, and directed by Jackie English. RaPUNzel marks the company’s 7th annual holiday…
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