Curtain closes at Theatre Works
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on October 28, 2008
Stamford Theatre Works, a 20-year-old production company of contemporary plays that called a barn home, is shutting down, according to the president of its board of directors.
“We don’t have enough money to go forward,” Vignola said. Four shows that were to be part of the subscription season will be canceled, he said.
Much of the debt [...]
Curtain may not yet have fallen on theatre
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 11, 2008
Llewellyn Rhoe’s effort to establish Vancouver’s first professional theater company with its own venue ended in February when Arts Equity Onstage closed the doors to its Main Street Theatre.
But Rhoe is hoping for a second act.
He said former patrons have encouraged him to proceed with a 2008-09 season and resurrection may come now that Arts [...]
Town and Country gets charity status
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 28, 2008
Related ItemsTown and Country gets charity status Tunbridge Wells based Town %26amp; Country Housing Group has been granted charitable status by the Charity Commission marking the final part of the group%26#39;s restructure.
The majority of housing associations have charitable status because of the nature of their work and for financial reasons.
The new status could potentially save [...]
Making a memorial for life
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 21, 2008
In the aftermath of the Second World War, with cenotaphs springing up the length and breadth of the country, Lytham St Annes looked to another means of commemorating its war dead by providing homes for disabled ex-servicemen
As war memorials go, theres a certain poignancy to commemorating the sacrifice of fallen heroes by providing a [...]
living A picture and a thousand words
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 18, 2008
VELIKO TARNOVO, BULGARIAhis is the sign of a country for sale. Its residential property, anyway.Everywhere you go, you see ads in English offering houses and apartments, existing and as-yet-unbuilt, for sale or rent at, by Toronto standards, bargain-basement prices. Less than $70,000 could put you in the market for a decent house on the outskirts [...]
Militants Draw New Front Line Inside Pakistan
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2007
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 1 %26#x2014; For much of the last century, the mountainous region of Swat was ruled as a princely kingdom where a benign autocrat, the wali, bestowed schools for girls, health care for everyone and the chance to get a degree abroad for the talented.
Now the region is the newest front line in [...]
King donates JD2 million for teachers’ housing project - Jordan
Filed Under Curt Flood | Posted on December 14, 2007
(MENAFN - Jordan Times) ZARQA - His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday donated JD2 million for the Teachers’ Housing Project, while the private sector contributed JD8 million to the scheme, which seeks to make it easier for the country’s teachers to own their own homes.The Monarch launched the project in September 2006 and donated JD2 [...]