Be sure to check out our Full List of SummerWorks Reviews Extremophiles (A) A delicate, grounded, two-handed story about an anthropologist and her subject in the apocalyptic near-future, Extremophiles is played by a single performer (playwright Georgina Beaty) oscillating between young and old(er), optimistic and weary, open and guarded, visionary and practical with incredible […]
To celebrate the home entertainment release of the latest from Once director John Carney, Elevation Pictures has given us a copy of the newly released Sing Street DVD to give away to one lucky reader. Yet another music-infused entry into the ever-growing Carney canon, Sing Street has an absolutely killer soundtrack. To enter, follow us on Twitter […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of SummerWorks Reviews Adam Lazarus is an approachable, involving performer. He bounds onto the stage wearing fairy wings and shows us a dance his 5-year-old daughter choreographed for him. You’re sure from the moment Daughter begins that Lazarus is a nice guy and he’ll tell you […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of SummerWorks Reviews Depression is our generation’s plague. AIDS, tuberculosis, the actual (as in bubonic) plague, they’ve all cut down generations before us, but clinical depression, that’s what is attacking the great minds of right now. Millions at a time, it’s taking our thinkers, our emoters, […]
CLICK HERE to read our full coverage of San Diego Comic-Con 2016. The first crush I ever had on a TV character was in 1999. I was 10 and I was absolutely crazy about a shy, blue-haired misfit named Harrison John. Harrison on The WB’s high school satire Popular was Christopher Gorham’s first role. He […]
Ira Sachs’ new independent feature Little Men is a heartbreaking portrait of friendship and the impossibility of adulthood. Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri- the latter in one of the breakout performances of the year as brazen and self-possessed Brooklyn kid Tony- star as two young boys who are thrown together and become the best of […]
CLICK HERE to read our full coverage of San Diego Comic-Con 2016. CW3PR always organizes the best press rooms (well-staffed, well-timed, well-populated with interesting talent). This year, both their Behind-the Music composers panel and Gears, Green Screens & Gaming panel gave us the opportunity to interview tons of great talent one-on-one in the press rooms […]
Toronto’s juried avant garde theatre festival SummerWorks ran August 4-14th this year and, over the course of those 11 days, our critics- Kelly Bedard, Beth McNeil and Lisa McKeown- covered 36 theatre, music and dance shows. With 14 A grades and only 4(!) productions scoring less than a B, this might have been the strongest […]