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Albee’s Everything in the Garden at NTS a Must for God of Carnage Fans
If you enjoyed God of Carnage at Centaur Theatre, you should not miss Everything in the Garden at the Monument National. This National Theatre School production of a little-known play by British...
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Will Christopher Plummer’s Golden Globe Boost Stratford Box Office?
Christopher Plummer’s acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was measured, witty and gracious. One of the few. (Why Meryl Streep didn’t have her act together is beyond me. Surely, by now, after a...
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Jesus Christ Superstar Gets Lukewarm Welcome on Broadway
When a show opens on Broadway it gets thoroughly reviewed by a variety of critical voices. Sifting through what has come in on the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of Jesus Christ Superstar so...
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Stratford Shakespeare Festival Faces Labour Crisis as 60th Season Opens
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is undergoing labour troubles as it approaches opening week of it 60th season. The festival’s call-centre staff, made up of 53 workers who have recently joined the...
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Stratford Shakespeare Festival Celebrates 60th Season with 42nd Street?
Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of a theatre festival launched upon the good name of William Shakespeare by staging a 1980 Broadway musical hit renowned for its spectacular tap-dance numbers may...
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Stratford Festival: Cimolino’s Cymbeline Offers Hope for the Future
William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, a wild tale of betrayal, bloody vengeance and joyful reconciliation, is not counted among his most highly respected plays (G.B. Shaw hated it.), nor his most frequently...
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Morris Panych Dresses Down a Critic Over Review of Wanderlust
I’m jealous. During the more than 20 years I have been writing about theatre for the Montreal Gazette I’ve received my share of nasty feedback, but never anything as wickedly, deliciously witty as...
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Stratford Festival Announces 2013 Season: Four Shakespeares, Two Musicals
Shakespeare will be getting his due at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2013, in a back-to-the-mandate season featuring four Shakespeare plays and only two musicals. The Bard plays will include...
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Christopher Plummer does Cyrano, Hamlet, Othello in A Word or Two
Christopher Plummer’s solo show A Word or Two, now playing at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, offers a delightful array of literary tidbits, framed within a children’s tale by Lewis Carroll. It’s...
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Is Christopher Plummer a “SuperAger”?
The fact that Christopher Plummer, at 82, can deliver an entire one-man show like his A Word or Two at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival without missing a beat or hesitating on a line seems...
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