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 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 […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series.   FUDGE Theatre Company’s production of the revolutionary rock musical Spring Awakening was an enthralling piece of work. The heart and soul of the production was the compellingly charismatic performance by Jared Walsh in […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series.   Thank god for “The Best of Fringe, Uptown”. Without that fantastic series at The Young Centre for the Performing Arts, I would have missed three of the best productions of 2011. One of […]

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 first reviews Brian Balduzzi did as the new Head of our Boston Theatre division was of Theatre@First’s daringly different production of Peter Shaffer’s Equus. By casting a woman in the […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series.   Soup Can Theatre’s stirring production of Marat/Sade featured lots of great performances, few so intriguing as Heater Marie Annis playing a mental patient assigned the role of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer, in Sade’s […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series.   Pitch Blond was one of the biggest hits of the 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival. Laura Anne Harris created the one-woman show and stars as Judy Holliday, an Oscar and Tony-winning star with a […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series.   There aren’t many actors currently in the Toronto indie scene as dynamic as Viktor Lukawski. Trained in Paris to have superhuman physical abilities, he’s just daring enough to walk that line between inspired […]