Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. Acting Up Stage/Studio 180’s production of Jason Robert Brown’s heart-wrenching drama Parade was one of the best productions of 2011, earning 5 My Theatre Award Nominations (including Best Production, Best Ensemble, Best Actor- Michael Therriault, […]
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Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. One of The Stratford Festival’s great leading ladies, Amanda Lisman is perhaps best remembered as Roxanne opposite Colm Feore’s Cyrano, but it was her performance as the mostly silent Lavinia is Darko Tesnjak’s brutal Titus Andronicus last season […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My TV Awards, we’re proud to present the My TV Nominee Interview Series. The actor behind one of the main villains on Canada’s best TV show, Being Erica, came back in the show’s final season to lend the character a reassuring dash of pathos. Adam MacDonald, who played […]
Here’s a well-known traditional Japanese proverb: “the world sucks”. Filled with deception, greed, and amoral opportunism, honesty and trust have become nothing more than archaic misnomers and fantastical abstractions for naïve dreamers and gullible idealists. As such, there are people out there who see life as nothing more than a game, and when that game […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. Iphigenia in Tauris was the first opera I reviewed for My Entertainment World, and remains my favourite. With stunning lighting design, stirring modern visuals and an alround fantastic cast, the production was one […]
Zombies are nothing new. They’ve been a staple of the silver screen, starting in 1968 with Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, to today’s modern 28 Weeks Later and Zombieland. Zombies feature prominently in books, comics, music (think Michael Jackson’s Thriller), and especially video games. Yet somehow, it took until 2010 for the zombie hordes […]
Some people have Bucket Lists with life goals and similarly big-deal stuff on them. I’m… still sorting out the whole life goals thing, but I do know my Book Bucket List (priorities. I have them). Now, don’t go gettin’ too excited. This isn’t a terribly sophisticated list. It’s a list of books that I personally […]
HBO’s Game Change could have easily been a liberal-biased exercise in condescension. The fact that it’s not is a credit to screenwriter Danny Strong (yup, That Danny Strong) more than anyone else. In interviews star Julianne Moore has made a point of praising Strong’s research, insisting that she refused to play any scene that wasn’t […]