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Sara Farb’s Fanny Brice in Shaw’s ‘Funny Girl’ grabs the role with both fists and makes it her own. Babs who?
A striking production of ‘Funny Girl’ – loosely based on the story of Fanny Brice, a comedic star of the...
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Halifax Theatre Arts Guild’s ‘Mystic Pizza’ delivers a sense of stylization that leaves the film’s realism behind.
The beloved 1988 Cult Film about three working-class women in their 20s, directed by Donald Petrie, son of Glace Bay,...
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A visually arresting staging of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ sends Stratford Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino out on a high note.
As he nears the end of his tenure as artistic director of the Stratford Festival, Antoni Cimolino leaves on a...
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‘Tiger Bride’ trusts the evocative power of music and the undeniable talent of its creators.
Before anything else, dear reader, start with the image. Pause over the proshot I’ve selected for this review. Notice the...
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VOICE CHOICE: Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’, at the Stratford Festival, receives a deeply felt and finely tuned production.
Still a fixture in many high school English classrooms, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman remains a searing examination of...
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Stratford’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ Turns Beckett’s Bleakness into Intriguing Theatre
In her programme note, director Molly Atkinson offers a succinct key to Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece: “There are two absolute certainties...
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A ‘Hobbit’ that dazzles the eye more readily than it stirs the heart
At its official Stratford Festival matinee opening, The Hobbit draws exactly the audience one might expect: families, children, and devoted...
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Crow’s and The Grand’s ‘Primary Trust’ gives a nimble production to a script that never tightens the screws
Mouldy walls, graffiti tags, and electrical wiring. Tufts of grass sprouting through cracks in the concrete. There is even a...
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VOICE CHOICE. Stratford’s ‘Guys and Dolls’ remains a must-see at the top of your theatre list this summer.
Does Guys and Dolls still work on a twenty-first-century stage, even if the title may strike some as slightly sexist?...
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‘Sugar Road’ turns Rom-Com Familiarity into Something More Tender.
Kristen Da Silva’s Sugar Road opens with a premise tailor-made for the Thousand Islands theatre: at a fading fairground, Hannah...
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