Last weekend I was excited to get the chance to see my first UC Follies show. The Threepenny Opera was in the lovely Hart House theatre, featured some excellent performers and had some good moments, but the overall production was shaky at best. The unforgiving score from Kurt Weill and dark lyrics by Bertolt […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2010 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. I’ve been following Sophia Walker’s Stratford career since 2008 when she first caught my eye as Lady Capulet. Since then, she has lent her classical charm to wonderful portrayals of Lady Macduff (Macbeth), […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2010 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. . Toronto actor Michael-David Blostein is one of My Theatre’s favourite young performers. His pitch-perfect portrayal of Sweeney Todd in Love is A Poverty You Can Sell this summer at the Toronto Fringe Festival […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2010 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. . Dean Gabourie, the Assistant Artistic Director of The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, directed my favourite Shakespeare production of their 2010 season: Two Gentlemen of Verona. The studio theatre production is nominated for Best Actor […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2010 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. This summer I dubbed Urban Bard “Toronto’s Coolest Classical Company”. Now their artistic director, Scott Moyle, joins our interview series to talk about the company, his innovative approach to found-space Shakespeare and his My […]
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 […]
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 […]