Anne And Gilbert Faces Threat Of Final Curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on November 10, 2008
The popular musical sequel to Anne of Green Gables is facing an uncertain future in Summerside, its home for the last three years.
“To do a production of this scale, that’s celebrated across the country and in Variety and in the Toronto Star, and it’s really kind of the great new Canadian Musical it’s really expensive,” [...]
Funding Woes Lower Curtain On Theater Company
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on October 9, 2008
Jeanna Whitaker’s dream was to create art. Her goal was to create a reputable theater company.
“The problem is operating a non-profit in a for-profit world,” Whitaker said. “For the first two years, just about everything came out of my own pocket because as a non-profit, you can’t get business loans and you can’t get investors [...]
Pay No Attention To The Economist Behind The Curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on October 5, 2008
As this column was being written, the U.S. House of Representatives, for a variety of ideological reasons, rejected the Bush administration’s Wall Street bailout. The bailout plan was written by Wall Street alumni and contained virtually no provisions addressing the root causes of the economic crisis. The author applauds Congress’s newfound courage and encourages further [...]
Curtain call for panto actors
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on September 11, 2008
IT was nearly curtains for a panto being staged to fundraise for Upwell village hall when the principal boy dropped out.
The show is the brainchild of village hall committee member Chris Gibson, who said: “The girl who was to play Aladdin dropped out and so did a couple more and I thought it was curtains.
Upwell’s [...]
Curtain call for the stars behind scenes
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on August 31, 2008
The Wee Cherub has joined the usual line-up of Bank of Scotland Herald Angel awards as a way of incorporating The Herald Young Critics project which has been run in conjunction with the EIF’s development department since 2003 into the last of the weekly awards ceremonies. It was appropriate, then, for one of the first [...]
Parting the Iron Curtain
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on August 31, 2008
Mistrust and fear of a foreign power half a world away tainted everyday life, hanging over people like a dark storm cloud.
While politicians worked behind the scenes to both lessen tensions and get the upper hand on the Soviets, jazz musicians were spreading Americana throughout more than 35 countries in the former Soviet Union, Northern [...]
Cold War legacy a haven for nature
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 18, 2008
ONCE the Iron Curtain was synonymous with death and oppression. It was festooned with mines, tripwires, barbed wire, watchtowers and guards paid to shoot human prey.
But this no man’s land was also home to an astonishing variety of wildlife flourishing where the barrier separated communist East from capitalist West. Now, if plans stay on course [...]
Curtain Time for Barack Obama
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 15, 2008
The April 29, 2008 report also noted that before he escaped from jail in Bagdad in December 2006, and returned to Chicago, Obama’s US Senate office had sought information about Alsammarae from the State Department on October 16, 2006 on behalf of Alsammarae’s family while he was being held in jail in Iraq.
As usual, when [...]
The West End isn’t facing the final curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 14, 2008
This buzzy, caffeine-addicted British impresario ought to be on top of the world. Two of her Broadway productions - Tom Stoppard’s Rock’ n’ Roll and the old farce Boeing-Boeing - have just been nominated for 10 Tony Awards in New York, the US theatre’s equivalent of the Oscars.
A host of other Brits have also been [...]
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 [...]