My mother is a very nice woman. She’s lovely, really, and everyone who has ever met her in the history of her existence on earth likes her because she is very nice and very lovely and generally crafts her life in a way that will produce as much happiness as possible. My older brother is […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series.   In The Boston University Shakespeare Society’s workshop production of Richard II, Borah Coburn had very few lines, but she was also the standout character of the play. As the cross-cast Duke of Aumerle, […]

 

*originally published on October 6, 2011* Ranking: #1 The most fun I’ve had at a Shakespeare play in a very long time was at Des McAnuff’s raucous celebration of anachronism: Twelfth Night, my favourite Stratford Production of 2011. I love anachronism as a concept. The universality of Shakespeare’s plays makes it okay for them to […]

 

Let me start this article by saying that I used to be the biggest American Idol fan around. I’ve always loved Kelly Clarkson (and always will, more on that in Part II of this article, entitled “… for The Voice”, because I’m abandoning American Idol for The Voice). I literally yelled when Clay Aiken lost […]

Walking into The Young Centre‘s Michael Young Theatre from the over-crowded lobby (on nights that feature Seeds alongside Long Day’s Journey Into Night in the Baillie, there’s an extreme claustrophobia leading up to the shows but, much more notably, during the simultaneous and thus wildly unpleasant intermissions), the set of the fantastically popular Montreal import […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series.   Only 3 people received nominations for their work on 2 different productions in this year’s My Theatre Awards. One was designer  Ken MacDonald (The Admirable Crichton, Parfumerie), another was director Jason King Jones […]

I was a little so-so on Smash after the premiere episode- expectations were high, as were pressures, and the exposition made for more Katharine McPhee screentime than is at all acceptable. All we knew about Debra Messing’s Julia was that she was a writer trying to adopt a baby; all we knew about her partner […]

  Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series.   One of Boston University’s best musical theatre talents played her dream role when she was only a sophomore. After stealing 3 previous shows in smaller roles, Stephanie Gray took on the infamous […]