Before we announce the winners of the 2010 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. . Before graduating highschool, Emily Kassie directed one of the most challenging pieces in the modern musical theatre canon- Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years. Her professional-caliber production is nominated for Best Student […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2010 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series.   Toronto actress Adrianna Prosser gave one of the summer’s most memorable performances in Urban Bard’s production of Shakespeare’s obscure but fascinating Two Noble Kinsmen. As the tragically starry-eyed Jailer’s Daughter, Prosser was easily […]

 

Not only was the best part of last night’s Saturday Night Liveclearly the awkwardly fantastic interactions between Mark Zuckerberg, “MARK ZUCKERBERG” (Andy Samberg), and Jesse Eisenberg during the latter’s opening monologue, but check out the ending when Eisenberg ends the show and then he and Zuckerberg stand there awkwardly, proving once and forevermore just how […]

The My TV Nominee interview series continues with our second entry of the year. A nominee in both the “Best Variety/Talk Show Host” and “Be-My-Best-Friend” categories, Danielle Fishel is the host of the Style network’s pop-culture roaster The Dish (nominated for “Best Variety/Talk Show”).   The charming host also happens to be a TV icon, […]

The Independent Drama Society started on shaky ground. Founded by a bunch of BU grads newly ineligible for the theatre groups they’d come to love in college, IDS cobbled together its earliest productions, recruiting inexperienced players and volunteer tech teams to put on plays with few resources and small audiences. The result was some very […]

Pilot Season
 

Now is that time of year in TV when news of what could be happening next year starts leaking out. It’s pilot season, a free-for-all of brilliant concepts and derivative sure-things battling it out for precious few primetime spots. My picks for the possible best of 2011’s fall season? In the top spot, obviously, it’s […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2010 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series.   One of Toronto’s most innovative young talents, Ted Witzel joins our interview series today. The Red Light District artistic director is nominated in the independent theatre category for Best Actor in The Witch […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2010 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. . Today’s interview is with Kate Ryan. The Best Actress in a Student Production nominee took on the complex role Cathy in Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years with Vetoed Productions last summer. […]