- <em>Pitch</em>
Pilot Watch: Pitch
I'm all in on FOX's new sports drama about the first woman to play Major League Baseball. There's something about the recipe of non-procedural, non-genre, non-soap dramas that network TV…
- The MyEntWord Podcast: The Simpsons
The MyEntWord Podcast: Revisiting The Simpson…
"Successful" Canadian comedians Colin Munch and Chris Wilson discuss the season premiere of Season 28 of The Simpsons, how weird The Simpsons is now, what shows are similar to but…
- San Diego Comic-Con, 2016
San Diego Comic-Con, 2016
We're thrilled to be back at San Diego Comic-Con for the second year in a row!
From Thursday, July 21 to Sunday, July 24th, editors Kelly Bedard and Rachael Nisenkier will…
- Toronto Fringe, 2016
Toronto Fringe, 2016
From June 29 to July 10, seven of our Toronto staffers- Kelly Bedard, Duncan Derry, Kymberley Feltham, Lisa McKeown, Beth McNeil, Lorenzo Pagnotta and Whitney Richards- reviewed 100+ plays in…
- Game of Thrones: Finale, Feminism, and the Future
Game of Thrones: Finale, Feminism, and the Fu…
Finale
Season six is over. Hard as it is to comprehend, girls and boys, they ended the season with an hour and twenty-two minutes of the best scenes everyone wanted, stuck…- Asians in Hollywood
Scarlett, Strange & Schmidt: Asians in Hollyw…
It’s been a very uncomfortable week for me as an Asian-American media consumer. It started Tuesday, with the new Doctor Strange trailer, continued Thursday as stills of Scarlett Johansson in…
- The 2015 Nominee Interview Series
The 2015 Nominee Interview Series
Welcome to the 2015 Nominee Interview Series.
This Year’s Interview Series Includes…
Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah
(MyTheatre: Toronto- Outstanding Actress, We Are Proud to Present…/Outstanding Supporting Actress, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot)
The dynamic and empathetic Khadijah…- My Cinematic 2015
My Cinematic 2015
Three years into this year-end tradition and the list just keeps getting longer. Last year's rankings of every new release movie I saw topped out at 110 but this year I…
- Critics in Conversation: Calling out Tech-Dependent Audience Members
Calling out Tech-Dependent Audience Members
Originally published on July 13, 2015 on Fabiana's personal blog The Educated Procrastinator
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Don Aucoin of the Boston Globe wrote a piece thunderously applauding Patti LuPone’s recent stage antics: during a…
- <em>Hamilton</em>: An American Musical
Hamilton: An American Musical
Who tells your story?
For generations to come, Alexander Hamilton can be thankful that Lin-Manuel Miranda chose to tell his in the new musical Hamilton, inspired by Ron Chernow’s biography on…
What's New
Katie Burden – Strange Moon
By Anya Wassenberg // Music
Strange Moon is the second CD for Los Angeles based indie artist Katie Burden and it’s been getting a fair amount of buzz since its release on September 15, and …
Father Comes Home from the Wars at the Royal Court
By Oliver Simmonds // Theatre (London)
It’s a grind to attend three hours of theatre. But grinds aren’t always bad. Sometimes, the alienation that accompanies “why I am watching this?” can induce some valuable critical distance. …
Pilot Watch: Pitch
By Kelly Bedard // TV
I’m all in on FOX’s new sports drama about the first woman to play Major League Baseball. There’s something about the recipe of non-procedural, non-genre, non-soap dramas that network TV …
The MyEntWord Podcast: Revisiting The Simpsons
By Colin Munch // TV
“Successful” Canadian comedians Colin Munch and Chris Wilson discuss the season premiere of Season 28 of The Simpsons, how weird The Simpsons is now, what shows are similar to but …
Torn at the Royal Court
By Oliver Simmonds // Theatre (London)
A lot of Royal Court’s Upstairs programming is too dry for its own good. Not this. Nathaniel Martello-White’s Torn wears complexity on its sleeve. Angel arranges a circle of seats …
Season Four Premiere: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
By Saiya Floyd // TV
Since its premiere, Brooklyn Nine-Nine has consistently been one of the best ensemble comedies on network TV. Which made its decision to start Season 4 focusing on only two of …
Stratford’s 2016 Musicals
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Little Night Music All I knew about A Little Night Music going in was “Send in the Clowns”, arguably the crown jewel of Sondheim’s canon. It would have been best …
Skinner Box Storytelling: September 17-23
By Colin Munch // Games
Click Here to read previous instalments of Skinner Box Storytelling. Everything I’m playing right now is an MMO in some form or another. From the one great success of the …
SDCC ’16: Inside the Salem Press Room
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
CLICK HERE to read our full coverage of San Diego Comic-Con 2016. WGN’s brutal period piece Salem thrives at the intersection of history and fantasy – with a healthy heaping …
27 at the Cockpit Theatre
By Adam Mcdonnell // Theatre (London)
Taking inspiration from the many music legends who lost their lives at an early age, 27 is a brand new rock musical from debutant Sam Cassidy that, while boasting a …
Pilot Watch: This Is Us
By Kelly Bedard // TV
NBC’s new family drama This Is Us is being marketed as the new Parenthood. The fact that Parenthood had to die so this could live has to be one of …
dreamplay by BAZ productions at the Vaults
By Oliver Simmonds // Theatre (London)
Stringberg’s 1901 work A Dream Play is historically important: its lack of structure, condensing of characters to social roles and narrative current that winds along by way of thin associations …
Keeping Up with Ms. Jones
By Lauren Webb // Cinema
Bridget Jones’ Baby is like a time capsule of the liberal mores of fifteen years ago – a time when it was progressive to indulge in “feminism by marriage plot” …
Pilot Watch: Kevin Can Wait
By Kelly Bedard // TV
How? Why? What? Literally, though, HOW?! Does Kevin James have illicit photos of the CBS top brass? Is there a curse on Erinn Hayes? Is it possible this has been …
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